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Old 01-19-2007, 08:48 PM
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COMPAQ ARMADA M700 Reset Bios

Ok heres the deal I bought a laptop on ebay. and it keepes restarting
and giving ERROR 162 Sysytem options not set and then shuts off. Any
ideas on how to fix this? is there a series of keys that I can press
that can reset the Bios so I can get into bios? any help would be
Greatly appreciated. Also everything else is good, hard drive etc

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Re: COMPAQ ARMADA M700 Reset Bios

Google is your friend. Search for this string: ERROR 162 COMPAQ gets
lots of hits.

heathermom0927 wrote:
> Ok heres the deal I bought a laptop on ebay. and it keepes restarting
> and giving ERROR 162 Sysytem options not set and then shuts off. Any
> ideas on how to fix this? is there a series of keys that I can press
> that can reset the Bios so I can get into bios? any help would be
> Greatly appreciated. Also everything else is good, hard drive etc
>

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Old 01-19-2007, 08:49 PM
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Re: COMPAQ ARMADA M700 Reset Bios


F10 to get into BIOS
Does it always shutdown - dead CMOS battery ?

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> Google is your friend. Search for this string: ERROR 162 COMPAQ gets
> lots of hits.
>
> heathermom0927 wrote:
>> Ok heres the deal I bought a laptop on ebay. and it keepes restarting
>> and giving ERROR 162 Sysytem options not set and then shuts off. Any
>> ideas on how to fix this? is there a series of keys that I can press
>> that can reset the Bios so I can get into bios? any help would be
>> Greatly appreciated. Also everything else is good, hard drive etc
>>


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