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Compaq 5150 BIOS Problem

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jbharleen

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Jun 24, 2003
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I have Compaq Presario 5150 with Win Xp running on it. My windows got curropt so I thought to re install XP again, now I have to go to BIOS to change the booting process so that I can boot the computer from CD and do a fresh installation, but when I press F10 to enter the BIOS setup i get a screen with a menu Language and it tell me to select a language and press enter, but when i press enter nothing happens , It just hangs there..what should I do?? I dont have the recovery disk?? If I just let the computer to boot then I get a message that some file is curropt under system32/config/ and it starts the physical dump and then it just freezes there??

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Go to the COMPAQ site. I believe they have a diskette based image you can download to accomplish BIOS setup and configuration chores.
 
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