F1 to bootup?

[KB3JUV]

disable the hp screen in bios so you can see your boot screen.
then maybe you can see what's going on.

How do I disable the HP screen?

How do I check the halt on settings?

What is PXE in the bios?

 

[KB3JUV]

How do I disable the HP screen?

How do I check the halt on settings?

What is PXE in the bios?

I looked into all of this and I can't find the place to do any of it. This Phenoix Bios isn't very helpful.

 

[KB3JUV]

I have the hard drive completely erased now. When I push F1 for it to boot up, it gives me a black DOS screen:

Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 082)
Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation

For Realtek RTL8139(X)/8130/810X PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v2.13 (020326)

PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM.

The part in red pops up, then leaves, pops up then leaves, etc.

I looked into those errors. Most people say it is a bad cable, or the hard drive is incorrectly installed. Well this is a laptop and it hasn't been touched inside, so something must have went wrong.

 

[mlr]

Try replacing the mother board battery, without knowing what computer you have or system specs I am guessing that when pressing F1 you are loading system defaults in bios because the battery is dead and ain't keeping your bios info stored to cmos.

 

[KB3JUV]

Try replacing the mother board battery, without knowing what computer you have or system specs I am guessing that when pressing F1 you are loading system defaults in bios because the battery is dead and ain't keeping your bios info stored to cmos.

It is a laptop. I don't want to open it up. That might be the problem though. What does everyone else think?

 

[m3trj]

I'd say try and open it. Just be careful and you shouldn't have any problems.

 

[KB3JUV]

I will talk with the guy about it. I will see if he just wants to send it back or he wants me to do it.

Do you think that the PXE error I mentioned earlier has to do with no operating system on the hard drive? Or does it have to do with my F1 problem?

 

[silence782]

Check your jumper settings on your drives. My sister's PC had similar problems, and that's what it turned out to be.

 

[KB3JUV]

Check your jumper settings on your drives. My sister's PC had similar problems, and that's what it turned out to be.

Well this is a laptop that hasn't been opened up. It was working fine so I don't think the jumper settings have changed.

 

[KB3JUV]

Well I took the computer as far apart as I could. I never found a BIOS battery. I will just give it back to him to send to HP to get fixed. Working on laptops are no fun.