Hi All,

I'm trying to access the BIOS on this machine but can't figure out how to. There's no flashing cursor in the right hand corner, where you normally press F10, like on other Compaqs i've worked on. I've tried every key and combination of keys i can think of but nothing works. It will boot to floppy and both FDISK and PMagic show no NDOS setup/diagnostic partition. So i went to Compaq's site to download the relevant softpaq's and this machine doesn't have a setup/diag partition, only the non-MMX version does. So now i'm stuck. I need to access the BIOS settings but can't figure out how to. I tried a search on Google but that didn't get me very far and i've altered the BIOS password jumper to Disabled (it was at Enabled) but to no avail. I've also tried the Clear CMOS jumper. This reset default values, redetected the HD and reset date/time to defaults (great! not...) and allowed me to save changes but that was it. When the machine is switched on, i get the Compaq logo on a white background, with a little egg timer in the bottom left corner of the screen, this stays for around 5 seconds, then it boots from floppy. How do i access the damn BIOS?

TIA,