[Lowfer] Argo Notes

[Ralph Hartwell]

> The first was a COMPAQ, it turned out to be a bad dog as it
> requires a
> proprietary to access its BIOS. Unreal. All I wanted to do
> was check on
> drive configs and couldn't see em. Unless one gets all the software
> disks w/ a pc -- beware of being locked out.

Most Compaq's will show a flashing white cursor block in the far upper
right hand side of the screen immediately after the POST runs.
Pressing the <F10> key when the flashing block is visible drops you
into the BIOS.  This may not be the case here, as a very few machines
did have a setup disk to configure the machine.  Naturally, that's
usually the first thing (other than the instruction manual) that the
computer owner loses...

73,

Ralph

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