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| Thread ID: 43750 | 2004-03-25 08:39:00 | Compaq Armada 1750 Wont Start | RogerF (4582) | Press F1 |
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| 225094 | 2004-03-25 08:39:00 | My daughter's Compaq Armada 1750 laptop shows the Compaq splash screen on boot up, and then goes blank with no other activity possible. I've tried 'F10-ing' and Ctrl-Shift-F10 and F2 and Del and Bkspce during that process but no luck, just end up with a lot of beeping. Any idea of how to force it out of this mode and into something useful. It's running Win 2000 but of course it's not getting there at the moment. |
RogerF (4582) | ||
| 225095 | 2004-03-25 16:59:00 | Bump | Laura (43) | ||
| 225096 | 2004-03-25 22:57:00 | The beeps usually mean something. Can you count how many beeps it does and whether they are long or short beeps? | Susan B (19) | ||
| 225097 | 2004-03-27 01:23:00 | The beeps are just the keyboard buffer overflow (too many unprocessed key strokes) . The machine locks up so early it never gets to do a POST and give its error messages via the beeps . I've found the solution tho' - Hold down the Function key, turn the machine on and tap the F11 key a few times in the first few seconds of the boot process as the splash screen displays . A '162' error message comes up . Hit F1 to accept the error message, the BIOS is reset, and the machine gets over its stumbiling block and continues to boot . |
RogerF (4582) | ||
| 225098 | 2004-03-27 02:40:00 | That "162" means "CMOS RAM configuration error". It would usually be associated with a 161, indicating battery dead. Is the hardware clock keeping time? Can you get into the BIOS setup with F10 after using F1? If not you might have lost the (hidden) maintenance partition on the disk. (I don't know if that model had that ...). If you can get into the setup, "save and exit". If it starts reliably after that with no keyboard gymnastics, it "just lost the settings". (The non-volatile memory will stay up fopr a while after the computer has been powered up). Or you might want to run the diagnostics ... which would probably tell you if the batttery is dead. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 225099 | 2005-05-04 08:31:00 | The beeps are just the keyboard buffer overflow (too many unprocessed key strokes) . The machine locks up so early it never gets to do a POST and give its error messages via the beeps . I've found the solution tho' - Hold down the Function key, turn the machine on and tap the F11 key a few times in the first few seconds of the boot process as the splash screen displays . A '162' error message comes up . Hit F1 to accept the error message, the BIOS is reset, and the machine gets over its stumbiling block and continues to boot . Thanks for the advise - my Armada booted up fine after following the above instructions . I was ready to throw it out - well done and thanks mate! |
Gremlin (1485) | ||
| 225100 | 2007-09-23 08:46:00 | Excellent, this helped a lot. It seems to be a common problem (going by Google results) with a solution that would never have occurred to me otherwise. My problem has been solved, thanks a lot. |
Grismar (5446) | ||
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