20 Most Recent Compaq Presario 2100T Notebook Questions & Answers

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You can reset the BIOS password reading the information from this link.

In case of your laptop the easiest method would be using software from Hiren's Boot CD as it's pretty hard to open it up and reach for the CMOS battery or the jumper.

There were some laptops that they made that had issues with the wirelss cards. Try updating the bios to the most current one available. In some of the cases that has helped.

try these passwords an see if there any help


A.M.I.
AAMMMIII
AMI
AMI SW
AMI?SW
AMI_SW
BIOS
CONDO
HEWITT RAND
LKWPETER
MI
Oder
PASSWORD

589589
589721
595595
598598
1322222
_award
ALFAROME
ALLY
ALLy
aLLy
aLLY
aPAf
award
AWARD PW
AWARD SW
Award SW
AWARD?SW
AWARD?SW
AWARD_PW
AWARD_SW
awkward
AWKWARD
BIOSTAR
CONCAT
condo
Condo
CONDO
d8on
djonet
HLT
HLT
J256
j256
J262
j262
j322
j332
J332
J64
j64
KDD
KDD
lkwpeter
Lkwpeter
LKWPETER
PINT
pint
SER
SKY_FOX
SYXZ
syxz
szyx
TTPTHA
ZAAAADA
ZAAADA
ZAAADA
ZBAAACA
ZBAAACA
ZJAAADC
ZJAAADC

Hi,
Here is the service manual for your laptop
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/UCR/SupportManual/TPM_319733-002_rev3_us/TPM_319733-002_rev3_us.pdf
On page 2-61 it gives the explanation on the boot block jumper under the heading-->Repairing the BIOS IC..
I hope that this has been very helpful for you

If you formatted your hardrive you don't have windows anymore. The format erased it. You'll need to get your Windows CD out and re-install.

From your description I agree, its probably a damaged switch. I never recommend anyone taking apart a laptop unless they are a mechanical whiz, have experience with laptop disassembly or can afford to break it beyond using. As far as turning the built-in wireless card on without the switch there might be a way. I don?t have a Compaq laptop to experiment with, however, my Dell Latitude BIOS settings has a setting to automatically turn on the wireless card at boot-up. Perhaps yours does too, during your laptops initial boot process get into your BIOS setup menu (press F2 or if that doesn?t work F10 keys). Look for an option relating to your built-in devices or wireless device. My Dell setting is fairly ovious: "Turn on wireless device". If you find a simliar option turn it on, reboot and look for the wireless adaptor. Another option may be to buy an inexpensive UPS wireless adaptor. You can pick them up on Ebay for around $30, not as spiffy as the built-in but probably a lot cheaper than paying a repair shop to fix a three year old laptop. Good luck.

You could save all your important documents, pictures, and things liek that, than than do a clean format of your hard drive, reinstall whatever version of windows you have (assuming u have the disk) and than reinstall all your drivers such as the chipset, processor, sound, graphics, modem, and ethernet drivers

reinstall your os

The monitor is defective and should be repalced. Keyboard and mouse pad problem could be a driver problem. Try to reinstall their drivers.

Hello tdclaude,
Without being able to physically look at the laptop, it is very hard to determine the cause. Here is a good article concerning a dead laptop keyboard:

http://tech.yahoo.com/gd/dealing-with-a-dead-laptop-keyboard/153166


- Vincent

Hi,

There are two (2) different Compaq Presario 2100, 1 is an Intel based and theother is AMD based, which one do you have?

In any case if your OS is WinXP, for Intel pls try here while for an AMD. pls try here.

Hope this be of initial help/idea. Pls post back how things turned up or should you need additional information.

Good luck and kind regards. Thank you for using FixYa.

Could be a defective/dead battery. Try removing the battery and connecting directly to power supply to see if this is the causse of the issue..

Try running a Windows Repair by putting in a recovery cd you got with the laptop, if not simply reformat and reload windows.
If you need to know how, let me know.