Go to Startup and look for something called Help and Support with a (?) icon. Mines in french so im not sure what's writen in english. Well when you find it click on it.

Well that help thing...

They dont give support for very old version of compaq laptop i tryed already

I didnt know there was a password :o I dotn see anything...

Is there a way to get in without it?

Ok, I'm not a techie and this is a laptop and im not going to unplug my HD. And if you could translate me what you mean by flash the bios and CMOS that would be really helpful :o

Ok when I start it , I see the cursor it flash and disapears, but I kpet pressing F10 from the begining
as in press release press release... i tryed it a few times but it doenst work :( and after a...

Nope still cant get into the bios... :(
old 366mhz model :|

screen even turned black when u crashed ur system and its scanning for files.... and windows isnt started yet... its turned black :|...

Im a windows fanatic lol, I know everything is disable screensaver and stuff... However it still goes black after 2 mins or so. Im gonna try to get to the bios now.. again :P

I tryed and tryed and tryed but theres no freaken way to get into the bios with my laptop!

its a COMPAQ Armada 1750 (I have Windows XP pro)

Theres a COMPAQ screen,
at that screen I tryed ...

What do you mean exactly?

Well my laptop lights in the dark... so no worry however, its like a screensaver when it turns black :| I need that off, whatever it is!! This is really important... it doesnt turn black if Im using...

can anyone explane exactly whats a backlight?

I googled it but cant find anything on it... so it should be in the BIOS? So I just enter bios and check for backlight? And turn it off?

I dunno Im not a bios fan :P

Are u sure its the...

Yes if its the place where,
to close the monitor: Never, Never
Sleep Mode: Never, Never

Everything is set to never in there :P

it still going to blackscreen :(

Well I got a laptop, one of thoses old 366mhz for travel only, and I got this problem which is quite annoying after about 5-10 mins the screen turns black, and it doesnt seem to be the screen saver...