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Compaq Armada 1700 and 1750 - Entering The BIOS
According to the Service Manual for the Compaq Armada 1700 series, you press F10 to enter the BIOS. Unlike modern computers, the BIOS pro...
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Way before the Covid19 Pandemic came to light I picked up a job-lot of laptops from a car boot sale and I'm slowly starting to refurbish...
Reset Vintage Retro Toshiba Laptop BIOS Password With A Key Disk (KEYdisk)
Have you got a Vintage or Retro Toshiba laptop that wont boot as it has a BIOS Password set? Then what you need is a KEY Disk!... When y...
How To Remove OEM Branding From Windows Vista Welcome Screen
If you want to remove the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer - i.e. Dell or HP) logo then all you need to do is delete (or rename) the OO...
Compaq Armada Series QuickRestore Recovery CDs
This came all the way from Israel today (vie eBay): I didnt realise but it has both Windows 95 and Windows 98 restore options/CDs. I...
Compaq Armada 1750 - How To Remove The CD-ROM Drive
The first thing you need to do is remove the keyboard by pressing the 2 keyboard release catches as shown here: You then need to remo...
How To Replace The IBM ThinkPad 380D (Type 2635) CMOS Battery
On the IBM ThinkPad 380D laptop the CMOS batter for the BIOS is located under the RAM cover on the bottom of the laptop so (after first rem...
Toshiba Satellite 220CS
Today I was gifted a great little work-horse of a laptop, namely a Toshiba Satellite 220CS with an Intel Pentium 133MHz CPU, 16MB of RAM and...
How To Replace The Compaq Armada 1750 CMOS Battery
You can either search eBay and pay around £7.49 for a replacement CMOS battery or you can remove the depleted battery from the connector an...
The Best Way To Format and Test Old 3.5" Floppy Disks
I recently won 240+ 3.5" floppy disks on eBay so I have been looking for a way to reliably mass format and test them. I did ask on a F...
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