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Compaq Armada 110, Bios corrupt after changing VGA setting??
Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 4:42 pm
by hwangtze
Dear Sir,
I have Compaq Armada 110. It still have BIOS Phoenix ver 0F01. When I change the vga memory setting from 8M to 4M, the notebook become dead. I guess my notebook has boot block problem.
When I turn it on, the notebook try to read floppy and CDRom and all light are dead. I have try to make crisis disk and boot block jumper, but still fail. So what can I do?
Thank you.
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 6:44 pm
by RobertR.
so you changed the vga memory from 8M to 4M and after that the notebook is dead. Have you tried to change it back to 8Mb? If you did any modifications
on your own, change it back to the default settings. This might work.
Hope this helped you.
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 9:36 pm
by hwangtze
Thank for your reply.
I cannot change it again because the notebook cannot turn on.
When I turn it on, the notebook just try to read floppy and cdrom. After that the notebook do nothing and the LCD show nothing.
I have try to make Crisis Recovery Disk but it does not work
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 6:54 pm
by Sharedoc
Try reoving the CMOS battery for a few minutes, so BIOS will switch to default settings.
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 1:17 pm
by hwangtze
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 1:56 am
by royliv
I would love to know how you managed to re-flash the bios if the machine was dead and with no display.
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 9:40 am
by vital
which is the shortcut key to enter the bios setup menu?
I have the same laptop compaq armada 110
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:10 am
by hwangtze
I open my notebook. There is flash chip on the bottom of the mainboard.
Release the chip and flash it. You need experience person to flash the chip.
Thank you.
