re: You mean "No Setup"
Monday, July 30, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Posted by Kiwi
(2111 messages posted)
I believe you actually mean that the CMOS chip that does contain a hardware BIOS,
but does NOT include any type of "Setup" program to make adjustments to the BIOS.
That is the same arrangement that a large percentage of the very earliest of PCs,
the XTs, ATs, and earliest 386s all were pretty simple that way.
Most of those came with floppy-based "Setup" programs. Because of your description,
I am making an assumption that your laptop is a quite old one. If you are lucky,
and Compaq held onto any of its really obsolete software, it is possible that they
could still sell you a replacement Setup Disk on a floppy.
I really feel that you are probably going to have to find a copy of that disk somewhere
else, though.
.
Kiwi
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On Monday, July 30, 2007 at 3:25 pm, joe wrote:
>have a old compaq aramda lap top
>it came with windows 98
>updated to ME.
>unknown at the time ,the bios were on the hard
>drive .
>so now i can not reformat to reinstall a new O.S.
>have a softpaq with bios. but can not install
>new bios will only install on front of hard drive. am i just out luck. and need
>a new hard drive, or what?
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