Reboot to factory settings

[i234i]

Ive got a compaq presario v4000
ive put it to factory settings before to wipe it and im sure it was a F button
I tried f10 which goes to phoenix bios or something but cant find any factory setting bit
any ideas?

 

[Dawg]

Can you take the battery out for a few mins to reset the CMOS?

 

[i234i]

Will that reboot my full system to factory settings and wipe it ?

 

[i234i]

anyone ????

 

[martinthorne]

It should be F10 to push to run the full system recovery on all the HP products.

you should press it repeatedly after the logo screen appears. keep tapping it until the recovery menu appears.

If that still doesn't work, you may have a recovery partition corruption. The only way to restore it then is to order discs direct from HP. If i remember right, they don't cost much from HP.

 

[i234i]

if i press f10 when the compaq screen is up it takes me to phoenix bios setup facility and i dont see anything about system recovery

 

[i234i]

also hps partner best2serve dont seem to do v4000 anymore... ahhhh!

 

[martinthorne]

ok, next test...

when your looking at the phoenix bios thing, click the exit key (i think its normaly F10 or F11 or Escape) and immediately start tapping F10 again, sometimes the one overrides the other :-S

Also, just double check that there isn't anything in the start menu relating to "Compaq system resources" or something like that, they would normally have the recovery manager in there somewhere

 

[martinthorne]

Is your laptop Vista? if so i think i have cracked it...

Just consorted my notes and found its F11 on bootup, that is of course if your machine IS Vista!

 

[i234i]

xp !!!!!

 

[Kernelpower_Ltd]

what are you actually trying to do,"factory settings to wipe it"?? what does this mean?

 

[i234i]

just restart the full computer from factory settings - wipe all the files and all the programs on it.

 

[Kernelpower_Ltd]

format the hard disk and reinstall windows that is what you have to do.

 

[i234i]

Thanks!

Stu/EasyPC is sending me some drivers in the post tomorrow so that should set me on the way to completing everything!