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compaq deskpro 2000 has no cmos setup

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by infosystems Feb 22, 2003 last reply May 24, 2003

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This compaq deskpro 2000 is a pentium with 133 mhz and 32 mb ram. Someone reformatted the harddrive. When I push f10 to enter cmos setup nothing happens. What can I do. The computer won't boot automatically. I need to push f1 to boot. The battery is good, (date and time are correct) but the floppy drive has switched and i need to get in to the cmos setup to change it. Please help.

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by thechas Feb 23, 2003

As I recall, some of the Compaq systems required either a utility to enter BIOS setup, or a program on a hidden partition.

I recommend that you go to HPs web site, and download the specific utilities for the proper model and version of Windows.
Here is the link for the Deskpro 2000 model 5100 with W95 http://tinyurl.com/6amj

Chas

by infosystems May 24, 2003

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by bincarnato Feb 23, 2003

Yes, you ned the F10 Setup Utilities from CPQ. Beware that when you put this on the HD it will ruin all data that is currently on the drive because it creates a new partition on the HD. It typically takes 2 to 3 floppies to create the F10 setup partition.