20 Most Recent Compaq 2710p Tablet PC Questions & Answers

Either the hard drive is bad and needs to be replaced, or the operating system has corrupted and simply needs to be re-installed. HP's usually have a DFS test in the BIOS menu to see if your hard drive is faulty.

You don't need to. The only info left is the bios data, that is needed to use the laptop again with a new hard drive. All your personal data was removed when the drive was removed.

However, its still on the drive, so unless you're going to keep it as a back up or something you still need to destroy the data. A lug hammer would be a good start.

I know some methods to reset bios password.
1. The best and easiest method: Close OS and shut down the electricity power of computer. Open your computer box, take out the cmos battery from the mainboard. Then the bios password will be reset to blank. Put it back after a few minutes.
2. Follow some hard tutorials, it is difficult to do. It is better that you are a expert. For example this tutorial: reset BIOS Password?

So I would suggest you the 1st method. Hope it helps.

Enter BIOS SETUP. Enter the current password.
Change it to a "blank" password.

Or, if you don't know the password, find the orginal sales-receipt, to prove to HP that you are _NOT_ a thief in possession of the stolen computer, and then HP will assist you.

Battery problem buddy.
You battery has started to loose charge, a time will come when in every seconds time 1% will decrease. Its simply the end of your battery, you can try tips and tricks but they will not be that helpful.

Normally this means the cpu is trying to boot from your cd drive and it is a non system disk in the drive. When you boot your cpu open the drive and make sure it is empty. If so if you have any other disks or mem cards in the cpu then remove them and your cpu should start up. If this is not the case, let me know and I will help you further.

Go to Start/Control Panel/Network and Sharing/

then click on View Status, then Diagnose. That usually restarts your wifi so you can be back online without restarting Vista.

Dear Adw28product,

You said "I reinstalled windows xp professional, and the multimedia sound driver will not work".

Follow the following link. It will aed you to a page where you can select the issue that affects you, and contact a microst customer support employee to help you with your problem.

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Hi,

The display properties indicate the hardware is working, so it's likely just a setting.

On HP/Compaq models you will see a picture, usually on the F4 key that looks like a screen with two lines beside it.

You need to hold down the Fn key(bottom left) and then push the F4 key at the same time to cycle between LCD, external or both.
If it is a newer model, a menu will pop up when you do this asking if you want to duplicate the LCD on the external, switch to the external or extend the desktop onto the external. Select the appropriate setting or continue holding down Fn while pressing F4 to cycle between the settings to the one you want.

If you have re-installed the computer at some point with anything other than the factory recovery set this may not work and I will have to give you a longer set of instructions.

If this works please rate this as fixed, if not reply back and indicate what version of windows you're using and I will post the instructions for the "long" way.


Chris

Go on your manufacturer's website, find the maintenance manual, find where is located the battery and just remove it for a few seconds it may remove the password on your bios. Good Luck!

Unfortunately a Service Repair Manual doesn't appear to exist. Apart from replacing batteries, the rest is one motherboard and a screen. https://www.google.com/search?q=compaq+ct101+tablet+service+manual ..

power on password poblem

It usually already on. You just need an application that supports webcams. Try Skype or Chatroulette.

Hello Punitrava, Hi, you can connect to the internet several ways, here are the common ones. 1. Via a free WIFI hotspot, find a WIFI area like in malls or coffee shops and enable you WIFI connection on your laptop. after enable the laptop detects the wireless connection and simply connect. 2. Via a USB modem, inquire about this on your wireless telephone company. 3. Via the Local Area Network like computer shops, insert any available LAN cable on your LAN connection, you need to consult the LAN administrator. 5. Via a DSL connection, just plug in the LAN cable from a DSL to your laptop. you need a DSL/internet account from your telephone company.