Recent content by Sean in Texas

Ok Larkspur gave me this idea on my post... I disconnected the power then pulled the button battery. After 5 minutes I re-installed it and restarted. Now instead of going to the boot diagnostics screen it went to some Compaq splash screen and "F1" actually worked here. once I got into the...

Oh my god Larkspur you are genius. I pulled the battery with it DC'd from the wall and wait 5 minutes. When I put the battery back in and restarted it the old splash screen was back and "F1" worked. I changed my boot order and enabled the boot time diagnostics screen. when it rebooted after the...

I have the same problem with my ASUS A8AE-LE. Next time you boot up and get to the system info screen where it instructs you to hit "F1" press the "PAUSE" button next to your "Page Up" "Page Down" keys. This will pause you right there and you can get a better look. At the top of the screen it...

Howdy Y'all, I have an ASUS Motherboard that upon start shows the standard system info page and near the bottom clear as day states: "Press F1 to enter setup" It does not say any other keyboard shortcuts and it states no error messages. It then skips over my repeated F1 pressing (then...