it was rebooting when it stopped in the red compaq letters, then i turned off and on, one more time and pressed f10 and this was what it showed me:

"PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0
Copyright 1985-2001 Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
All Rights Reserved
BIOS version 0F08
Build Time: 02/08/02
VIA Twister-K (VT8362 + VIA686B)
CPU= AMD Duron (tm) Processor 1100 Mhz
636k System Ram Passed
239M Extended Ram Passed
64k Cache SRAM Passed
System BIOS shadowed
Video BIOS shadowed
Mouse Initialized
Fixed Disk 0:HITACHI_DK23DA-20
ATAPI CD-ROM: DW-28E
System Configuration Data updated


Entering setup...


And then it turns off after 5 minutes.

Please tell me what to do, I think is the BIOS but i don't know how to fix it

Lualba1979, April 2005

try going to hp.uk type in the model No then try downloading the rom bios firmware. i did this to my presario v5000 & it worked. if you have floppy a capability then download the rom bios firmware probably an exe file .which will work best. then boot the floppy disk from startup.

gary, March 2008