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compaq presario cds 524
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 3:11 pm
by daniel_pt
Hi, I'm new in this forum and I'm hopping this community help me solving this issue I have...
ok, I have this old presario cds 524 and the hard disk as developed major damage... I had another one, a little bit smaller, and I changed it...
My problem is that the computer don't recognize this new HD and I really don't know how to enter in the BIOS!!!!!
I've already read in this forum that after the red compaq logo to press F1 or F10 and I tried it, even thou when it starts there's no red compaq logo...
So, my question is: How do I enter this compaq BIOS!??
thanks!!
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 2:42 pm
by KachiWachi
Are you trying this with the new drive or the old drive?
The earlier models had the diagnostic stuff on the HD itself, so the F-key would take you to a "hidden" partition on the drive.
If your old drive is still good, you could try master/slaving them, then copy the diagnostic partition over to the new drive...unless you can find the setup disk to install it (as you asked in your other post).
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 3:02 pm
by daniel_pt
I tried all F's keys.. none of them do nothing...
so, I believe I do need that diag disk... and I've already searched for it in the compaq site, but I had no luck with it...
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 2:59 pm
by KachiWachi
The Diagnostic partition may be damaged then...
Just to make sure it is there, you can FDISK the drive (view only), and see if there are 2 partitions physically present.
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 4:04 pm
by daniel_pt
I've already tried it before came here.. FDISK tells me that there's no hard disks found.. So, I assumed I have to enter the pc bios and tell it there's a HD installed... but I as said, I don't know how to enter the computer bios!
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 11:35 pm
by NickS
Another suggestion for entering the Presario BIOS is Ctrl-Alt-Esc....
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 8:11 pm
by daniel_pt
nops... didn't work that too
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 9:44 pm
by soupy
Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 2:33 pm
by KachiWachi
soupy -
You know I did that, but I couldn't find anything on his PC...what did you put into the HP/COMPAQ search engine to get to that page???
Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2004 8:14 pm
by jvnwrmr
Hi, I'm new in this forum and I'm hopping this community help me solving this issue I have...
ok, I have this old presario cds 524 and the hard disk as developed major damage... I had another one, a little bit smaller, and I changed it...
My problem is that the computer don't recognize this new HD and I really don't know how to enter in the BIOS!!!!!
I've already read in this forum that after the red compaq logo to press F1 or F10 and I tried it, even thou when it starts there's no red compaq logo...
So, my question is: How do I enter this compaq BIOS!??
thanks!
try hitiinf delete on red compaq screen..
Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 2:24 am
by Ritchie
Try ALT then ESC or ALT then F1 in quik sucession.
