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Unable to access system bios

 
Ayman Altounji
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‎06-03-2001 04:00 PM

‎06-03-2001 04:00 PM

Unable to access system bios

I have successfully updated to the latest bios 11/08/2000 however I am never prompted to press F10 to access the BIOS. I have tried a number of different times to press F10 but have not been successfull. Any suggestions?
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Ayman Altounji
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‎06-06-2001 04:00 PM

‎06-06-2001 04:00 PM

Re: Unable to access system bios

Pressing F10 allows the system to boot from the 'System Configuration' partition on the hard drive which is normally installed from the SmartStart setup cd when the system was first configured. My guess is, it was never installed in the first place. If you look at the partition tables on the hard drive (using 'fdisk'-DOS, disk manager - NT or Install - Netware) it is usually 36Meg in size. If it does not exist you will have to boot from the SmartStart cd and run the 'System Configuration'. The latest System Configuration can be downloaded from the Compaq web site.
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