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Originally Posted by Paul&John
Did you tried to remove the battery from the mainboard to reset the settings?
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Originally Posted by TROLLENSTEIN
Some old HPs used to use the pressing the [F1] or [ESC] key to access the BIOS instead of the "normal" keys most use today. If a logo/splash screen pops up on booting just press [ESC] key and it'll usually clear the splash screen "image" and show you the post info behind it.
If it's still not popping up at bootup, you could try turning the machine off and pulling the CMOS battery out of the mobo, wait 10mins (Yep, 10mins really. It's to clear the mobos capacitors completely of power.), and popping it back in to reset the CMOS to default. If the BIOS is passworded you can use one of various DOS tools available like KILLCMOS (DOS only tool; so stick it on a USB stick or floppy etc) to clear/reset it to factory defaults. Finally, and probably easiest, is to just move the jumpers on the mobo located near the CMOS battery to either CLEAR CMOS, CLEAR, CLR, JCMOS1, PASSWORD, PSWD (or something similar to that depending on your mobo, check positions on manufacturer's site) positions to reset/clear CMOS and reset BIOS to default.
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Thanks guys - I had thought of that, but only as a last resort... It wouldn't surprise me if the guy had 'booby trapped' it, so the only way to fix if you fuck about is to contact him for the fix...
So why dont I contact him? He is no longer in the biz, and has no website or contact info....
After all, despite my trying to get the sata to work, it now STILL displays the error at boot up - But DOES actually boot from the orig drive none the less - (With the orig drive back in place and the sata disconnected) and takes about 30 seconds longer to boot and another 30 seconds to shut down...
But thanks anyway - I may HAVE to try it later
