Help with a laptop.

[darkclaw]

I was recently given a Panasonic CF-V21P laptop. It runs fine but when it boots up it gives some error and says please run setup program or press F1 to continue. I looked over panasonic's site but couldn't find anything on it? It seems to have a bios similar to an IBM PS/2 systems as I can't access it and I remember seeing some PS/2 systems ask for a setup program. Any leads or suggestions.

Thanks,

DC.

[RustyGT]

It runs fine, but gives an error at post?
We assume by that the m/c works? Y/N?

If it boots properly? Then runs, there maybe a BIOS hiccup to be resolved. Have you taken the setup option, to find whats nagging?

Try setup, explore the options, let the m/c find it's itch, Save and Exit. Reboot.

More info would be handy here. Chrs R.

[darkclaw]

Well that's just it there is no way to enter the bios. At least not that I have found. It just asked to run a setup program which I do not have or have yet to be able to find. Panasonic's website had no information on the laptop. I am pretty sure it is an IBM bios circa 92-94. But other than that I'm not sure of much. The error message as I stated looks similar to error messages generated by PS/2s with improperly set up MCA configurations in the bios. Just a guess on that though.