Murray
If your Phoenix BIOS is the same as on an HP Pavilon I at one time had
you access the BIOS by pressing F1 before the boot screen appears. It had an
HP splash screen and then the boot sequence started and you had to press F1
while the splash screen was displayed.
Charles
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From: "bascule" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie]Modem Setup
> if you truly have never modified anything in your motherboards bios
> before then perhaps before you try to do so you should check to see if
> your modem has any jumpers or switches on it to set it to a different
> irq/io range/com port, as an isa modem it may well do so, i have a
> generic isa modem that i have set to irq5 using jumpers on the card and
> it installs into windows as com3 and in linux as /dev/ttyS2,
>
> if no joy then while your machine is booting up, when you see the post
> screen -the memory count and ide drive detect- try pressing the delete
> button on your keyboard, older motherboards and certain less common
> brands have other ways to access the bios but this usually works, your
> machine is quite newish sounding and i would hope that hp gave you a
> manual with it! you should than see a simple menu of bios options to
> access, try using the cursor keys to navigate around, if memory serves
> you will want to select a set of options entitled 'integrated
> peripherals' or something similar, select and press return, if you have
> the right set of options you will see an entry for com ports, select
> com2 by highlighting it, and if your bios is navigated the same way as
> mine, then use pageup or pagedown buttons to scroll through various
> options for this com port, note the currently selected value before
> changing, look for a value called 'disabled' press escape and highlight
> a screen option called save changes and exit, press return, press y for
> yes.
>
> as i have implied this how to alter things in the bios on my motherboard
> which is an award bios v4.60, yours may operate differently,
>
> let us know if this works
>
> bascule
>
> Murray wrote:
> >
> >
> > I've never modified anything in BIOS before, how would I go about doing
> > that?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Murray
>
>
