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My Compaq Armada 3500 won't boot past COMPAQ logo. It wont boot to Floppy or CD and I cant enter BIOS to change any settings. I have 2 of these laptops (I bought them both used). My other one had the same similar problem when I got it, but I fixed by removing the cmos battery for 30 minutes and rebooting after I put it back in without the HD in the case. It told me error 162 options not set, and date and time had to be reset, and to hit F1 to save the settings. I did and rebooted. It booted to my floppy Win98 boot disk fine, and then I put in a COMPAQ setup for portables and a DIAG floppy and set it up to boot to multi boot. It runs like a charm now for its size.
But the other one will not accept any of these options although it does tell me the same message after I remove the CMOS battery like Compaq Armada M700 Battery
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and put it back in as I did the other one. But when I reboot, it still doesnt see the floppy, CDROM or let me boot to bios to enter setup. It just shows the COMPAQ logo and says "non system disk, remove the disk and hit a key when ready." I have removed the hard drive, removed the CD ROM, and removed the floppy on seperate occasions to see if any of them were the problem, but no change. I took the whole thing apart, and put it back together hoping something would end up being connected to the problem, but it still doesn't change the problem. Next to selling it for parts, any ideas? Its in great shape, has a nice 13 inch lcd and good floppy and cd-roms, and 192 ram.
so I have a compaq 515 computer and it suddenly yesterday started saying the battery was low. Today not powering on at all. Indicating to me that its the power adapter having gone bad since i have another computer in same power outlet getting power. Now I have tried the reset of taking battery out and just having power adapter plugged in to see if turned on would not.
I have unplugged power adapter and tried power button but believing the battery is drained it did nothing.
I also have done a power reset of having battery and power adapter plugged in and holding the power button on for 15-30 seconds when doing this where the power adapter port is i get a flashing light but then it turns off.
Otherwise there is no power indicator of charging where the power adapter port is.
Any suggestions on further troubleshooting my next thought was either purchasing a power adapter online and replacing it. Or going into a store and see if they can just let me plug in for a minute and see if it actually charges.
The other concern is if its the charging port itself but the prong is not broken and don't see any physical damage to it plus when plugged in and holding reset it gives indication of flashing light any help would be appreciated