When I turn on the laptop sometimes the screen doesn't come up and when it does come up it says F10=ROM Based Setup. When I press F10 nothing happens.

My hp Compaq nx6120 can't starts. When I turn on screen the follow messages F10=ROM Based setup
i pressed F10 but I can't go into bios.
please help me!!

1) Turn the laptop on

2) AS SOON as you see > F10 = ROM Based Setup, in the lower left corner of your LCD screen, press the F10 key.

3) You will see the headings > Main, Advanced, Security, and Tools.
Use the appropriate Arrow key to highlight Advanced. (Look at the Navigation guide to see the proper key to use)
Press the Enter key.

4) Use the appropriate navigation key to highlight > Boot Order
Press the Enter key

This will show you the Boot Order Sequence.
What you are doing now is just looking around. You haven't changed any settings yet.

If you need to change the Boot Order Sequence, you have to use the appropriate navigation key, and highlight Multiboot, and then press the Enter key. Disable Multiboot.
Save changes.
If you do Not save the changes, it will be like you have done nothing at all.

[The navigation guide shows you the key/s to press to navigate around in BIOS Setup.
You may see,
Page up/Page Down, or -/+
Left Side Arrow key, or Right Side Arrow key.
Enter key ]

If this is not what you had in mind, please post in a Comment.

Without having seen it, it sounds like a hard drive problem. Could be dead, could be the boot info has been destroyed (virus?).

ROM setup should be able to tell you more about the hard drive, and whether Setup can see it.

I have suceeded by pressing Fn Button + Escape while booting. When it starts beeping, keep the Fn-Button pressed and try F1 / F2 / F3 etc. till the screen changes and it starts booting normally. No idea why, but it worked. Good luck!

Turn On your PC on start press F10 while the ROM-Based setup massage is displayed on the screen. Change the Enable or Disable the system booting. Enable BOOT ON HARD DRIVE. Save the setup. (any order issue contact me) cheers

this is to WARN you' be very careful. Now restart the computer press f10 when the F10=ROM-based setup is displayed on the screen. Select File=Restore default and then press enter/ok (if any hassles still come back). cheers

press f10

its common.it always come and still if it doesnt allow you to access ur pc then click f10 and then run system in safe mode.

no F11 is not cmos reset...its recovery....remove ac adapter and battery and press hold the power for 30 seconds and plugin ac adapter and turn on notebook.


Please vote.

F10=ROM BASE SETUP