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Old 10th December, 2001, 04:51 AM
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Compaq Bios
I want to get into my compaq bios so I can OC my celeron 500/66 but I cant seem to do it any Ideas>>
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Well, overclocking and Compaq are oxymorons, but you can get into the BIOS by going F10 on startup on some Compaq's. That's how my P200 Compaq is.
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Hey thanks but I tried that it seems they have it locked out and cant change the important stuff you know that bites. it is the same with my aptiva but that is why I am building a custome system so if I want to blow it up I can )
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some of the compaqs required a "admin" boot disk to access the bios. only then would it come up
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thanks surly
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yeah, some old IBM systems also made to have a boot like disk to access the bios.
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