[Lowfer] Argo Notes

Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:57:21 -0500

Man who dragged you out of the woods??? Where YA been hiding???

Mike>WE0H
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Ralph Hartwell
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 8:40 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Lowfer] Argo Notes

> 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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