Compaq deskpro bios key

[Bubba]

I have a old Compaq Deskpro 575 pentium system. I can't figure out how to get into the bios on boot up. I read that Compaq stores some bios info on the hard drive, but I already reformatted and fdisked. Any ideas on how to get in the bios?

I'd like to disable the video and install a better video card with more memory.

 

[Huge]

Usually f1 or del; been a while since I've used a comcrap...

 

[Bubba]

This one has a 2 floppy program that has to run in dos mode to load and set the defaults. I found it at the hp website.

It's not a bad old computer. It's got a pentium 120, 80 mb ram, 2 gig hard drive. I'm just using it to surf the web with. I put a pci 56k winmodem in it. It can surf on 56k almost as fast as my usr external.

 

[HomeLAN]

I thought a lot of older Comcraps used f10 to access the BIOS.

 

[Bubba]

yeah that's the first thing that i tried