I’m currently trying to fix a Compaq Presario 5140EA (athlon 1.3 ghz) because the OS was being weird. So i formatted the HDD, installed XP, than it has to restart the computer ( you know the routine) but from that point it gave errors.

After a while i found out that Compaq used some kind of hidden partition where they keep part of their BIOS/ startup software…

Since i don’t have any recovery CD’s ( and can’t find them) ; my final option was to flash the BIOS and than hope that the Compaq shit is gone

According to the Compaq site the motherboard is of the type "Uwave2".

Never heard of so i went on searching. According to some other sites i found the BIOS version should be :

http://www.fic.com.tw/support/mother…px?model_id=49

However those manufacturers have a bios guardian, which i should disable before being able to flash the BIOS. But Compaq has a setup utility at the start up that bypasses the original bootscreen. Meaning i don’t know any more options…

If anyone has remarks or things i can try out, i would be very grateful =)

Thanks in advance^^