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First post, by tabm0de

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So i got myself a "compaq presario 7220" and i really cant find any manual and having a hard time accessing bios, i have tried with pressing F1 and F10 but nothing helps, keyboard is working so thats not a problem, even tried a orignal compaq keyboard with same problem.

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naa, nothing yet...

Reply 1 of 4, by ODwilly

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Have you tried delete, f2, f8, and the whole menagerie of f keys OEMs like to use? The only other thing I could thing of would be if the hdd had the bios on it, but that machine looks fairly new to have that issue.

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Reply 2 of 4, by gerwin

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This Dutch article suggests that this BIOS menu requires data to be present on a special Harddisk partition?
https://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/435717

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Reply 3 of 4, by Taylor7108

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Hmmm have you tried replacing the 3V battery on the board? This is a cheap way to troubleshoot and is probably necessary anyway, at this point.

Hope this helps!

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Reply 4 of 4, by tabm0de

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Thanks for the reply's but it is as gerwin sausage, it needs program on disk the old user formatted the disk hehe but I found the "compaq f10 setup" floppy image 😀

naa, nothing yet...