Compaq armada 1500c

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There is not a bios partition, as the bios is a firmware on the mother board. You need to press the key specified early during boot up, before the system seeks the hd for load.

try pressing f8 continually at system startup to enter safe mode. From there you can enter safe mode and reinstall your display adapter driver.. Please rate this answer

Check MS minimums here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314865

It will tell you if there is any chance in hades of installing XP but if you only 'meeting' and not exceeding, you will be disappointed.

If (as I suspect) you are running 98se, you might be better off reinstalling.
I am not enamored of the differences.

I've e-mailed you a link for 2 of the cd's the 3rd may take a while but wait to get all 3

Is it the Operating System you are trying to install?
or the service pack 2 for WinXP?

If it is the OS click on the ASK ME tab under my User ID and leave your contact address, I will send out the 3CD set for compaq Armada/Presario to load the OS and Applications.

If it is the Service pack, don't install SP2, Install SP3
The release candidate 2 is in English, German, or Japanese.
Down at the bootom of this link's page, select the language you want and download approx 315mb

go directly to your power management, disable the battery monitoring icon and set to DC connection, depends on the setting of your BIOS, same idea disabled it

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=96627&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=96223&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=20#11360

Have you read this recent thread on the HP support forums?

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=1174544&admit=-682735245+1194755751273+28353475