I recently came across such a machine and despite being a treat I was wondering why I couldn't enter the system bios...
if it is on disk and the original got lost(HD was toast) is there a way to get an image of one containing the bios "section"?
The BIOS itself is on the motherboard, but Compaq was famous (though by no means unique - IBM did the same on many models) for not having a BIOS setup utility on the motherboard, but keeping that as a separate piece of software that had to be run from a disk. However this seems to be a very late model for that. Sure it's not just a different key press? Late Compaqs tended to be F10
wrote:However this seems to be a very late model for that. Sure it's not just a different key press? Late Compaqs tended to be F10
Compaq kept this nonsense on the Deskpros as far as their socket 7 models as i remember it. When the EP/EN (slot 1) series came they got rid of that.
Entering BIOS does not work using Escape- or F10 Key - there's only the blue rectangle on screen to boot via pressing F1 after startup.
I'll see if one of the people on youtube , who made a vid about the XE466, are willing to produce an image of their hard-disk.
