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 F1,F2,F3,F4,F5,F6... all [F]
I even tryed ALT+CTRL+DELETE

Plain nothing. There so way to get there... or is there?

Maybe one of you pro has a solution... Cause I need to turn off the black screen that comes on every 2 mins or so, very annoying when ur watching a movie.

I need a solution guys before jan 21, thanks!

did you just try DELETE? or TAB?

Ctrl+Shift+F10.Try each combination (including none) of Ctrl, Alt and Shift with Del, Esc, F10, F2 and BkSp.

" Try f2 or delete. I recommend rebooting and as soon as the machine has power, tap either of these keys continously until you get in. You may find that Compaqs boot past the spot where you can get into the bios quite fast and it may require a few attempts. "

You say you need it so the display doesn't turn off while watching a movie? In Windows, just disable the screen saver. Also go into power preferences and don't turn your monitor off automatically.

Looks like F10 should be the one for the 1700 series models, I looked it up on HP for ya, I don't have one here to test but this is what the manual says:

1. Turn on or restart the computer.
2. Press F10when the cursor appears in the upper right corner of the screen.

if that doesn't work you might want to check on the HP site...looks like you might be able to get a BIOS update - that would be the only other thing, aside from maybe popping the CMOS, that I can think of that might get you into setup. Catching the BIOS screen is kinda tough so maybe you just need to try tapping F10 as the screen is going by...you really don't want to be guessing which key gets you setup otherwise the OS will be booting before you realize it and maybe you missed the F10 key during the 1.5 second interval or whatever for getting into setup.

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

I know on the Dell laptops there's the speedstep settings in the BIOS that superscede Windows settings, which I find pretty annoying, so turning off all the controls in Setup for when the system is on AC power is a must...otherwise it kills the cpu clocks!

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 its not related to screen saver its something in the bios im sure

Let BIG"B" sum this up, here is the manual (via)PDF
Source: HP
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport...SeriesId=96222
http://h200002.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/s...03_rev3_us.pdf

And apparently the command is f10 when the cursor blinks.........If that doesnt work its time for a flashoveride

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 little while it beeps beeps when i press F10..

It wont let me on the BIOS...help...