Presario 5686 - BIOS halts booting

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My Presario 5686 stops during the booting process with a screen containing
two two green buttons with the following options:
"F1 Boot" and "F10 Computer Setup".
The red Compaq-logo is visible for a much shorter time than before.
After choosing F1 the booting process proceeds normally.
This occurred for the first time after I changed the graphics card, and in
the process accidentally switched the power-button on and off in a rapid
succession before opening the case.

There is no setting in the BIOS that can change this.
I have tried to reprogram BIOS with the latest Softpaq (10911)
and take out the battery, but to no avail.

The online Compaq guide doesn't give me any help.

I have read about setting the BIOS jumper to "Recovery".
My Mobo doesn't have that option.
I have, however, three pins that seems to have something to do with the
CMOS.
The two close to the battery are jumpered.
It's written "Erase" alongside the pins.
Vertically next to the free pin it is written "CMOS".

The Mobo is a Compaq (Intel) 440BX/ZX.
The BIOS is Compaq and produced by HP.

My questions are:
- Do I have any other option left than erasing the BIOS (or CMOS?)?
- What do I do with the jumper to erase the BIOS?
- How do I copy the new code into the flash memory?
- Is erasing very hazardous compared to updating? (I have upgraded my
Presario with, among other things, max memory and a 1 GHz CPU. For our needs
it's a very good and reliable workhorse that I will be very sorry to screw
up.)


--
JP Loken

 

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Replace the (typical) 3.3v C2032 lithium battery on the motherboard. The
symptoms are some of those seen when the motherboard battery fails.

.... Ben Myers

On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 00:47:36 GMT, "Jan-Petter Loken"
<jp_lokenspamfri@hotspamfrimail.com> wrote:

>My Presario 5686 stops during the booting process with a screen containing
>two two green buttons with the following options:
>"F1 Boot" and "F10 Computer Setup".
>The red Compaq-logo is visible for a much shorter time than before.
>After choosing F1 the booting process proceeds normally.
>This occurred for the first time after I changed the graphics card, and in
>the process accidentally switched the power-button on and off in a rapid
>succession before opening the case.
>
>There is no setting in the BIOS that can change this.
>I have tried to reprogram BIOS with the latest Softpaq (10911)
>and take out the battery, but to no avail.
>
>The online Compaq guide doesn't give me any help.
>
>I have read about setting the BIOS jumper to "Recovery".
>My Mobo doesn't have that option.
>I have, however, three pins that seems to have something to do with the
>CMOS.
>The two close to the battery are jumpered.
>It's written "Erase" alongside the pins.
>Vertically next to the free pin it is written "CMOS".
>
>The Mobo is a Compaq (Intel) 440BX/ZX.
>The BIOS is Compaq and produced by HP.
>
>My questions are:
>- Do I have any other option left than erasing the BIOS (or CMOS?)?
>- What do I do with the jumper to erase the BIOS?
>- How do I copy the new code into the flash memory?
>- Is erasing very hazardous compared to updating? (I have upgraded my
>Presario with, among other things, max memory and a 1 GHz CPU. For our needs
>it's a very good and reliable workhorse that I will be very sorry to screw
>up.)
>
>
>--
>JP Loken
>
>

 

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Thanks.
I'll have a look into that, too.

--
JP Loken

<ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)> skrev i melding
news:40bcecec.33200574@news.charter.net...
> Replace the (typical) 3.3v C2032 lithium battery on the motherboard. The
> symptoms are some of those seen when the motherboard battery fails.
>
> ... Ben Myers
>
> On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 00:47:36 GMT, "Jan-Petter Loken"
> <jp_lokenspamfri@hotspamfrimail.com> wrote:
>
> >My Presario 5686 stops during the booting process with a screen
containing
> >two two green buttons with the following options:
> >"F1 Boot" and "F10 Computer Setup".
> >The red Compaq-logo is visible for a much shorter time than before.
> >After choosing F1 the booting process proceeds normally.
> >This occurred for the first time after I changed the graphics card, and
in
> >the process accidentally switched the power-button on and off in a rapid
> >succession before opening the case.
> >
> >There is no setting in the BIOS that can change this.
> >I have tried to reprogram BIOS with the latest Softpaq (10911)
> >and take out the battery, but to no avail.
> >
> >The online Compaq guide doesn't give me any help.
> >
> >I have read about setting the BIOS jumper to "Recovery".
> >My Mobo doesn't have that option.
> >I have, however, three pins that seems to have something to do with the
> >CMOS.
> >The two close to the battery are jumpered.
> >It's written "Erase" alongside the pins.
> >Vertically next to the free pin it is written "CMOS".
> >
> >The Mobo is a Compaq (Intel) 440BX/ZX.
> >The BIOS is Compaq and produced by HP.
> >
> >My questions are:
> >- Do I have any other option left than erasing the BIOS (or CMOS?)?
> >- What do I do with the jumper to erase the BIOS?
> >- How do I copy the new code into the flash memory?
> >- Is erasing very hazardous compared to updating? (I have upgraded my
> >Presario with, among other things, max memory and a 1 GHz CPU. For our
needs
> >it's a very good and reliable workhorse that I will be very sorry to
screw
> >up.)
> >
> >
> >--
> >JP Loken
> >
> >
>