On 14 Apr 00 at 15:53, Anthony J. Albert wrote:
> I've tried the standard F1, F2, and DEL keys to try to get the
> CMOS configuration to come up, without success. Do I need a
> configuration disk? Anyone have experience with this kind of
> motherboard?
Try any or all of these keyboard combinations (Thanks to Yves
Bellefeuille for compiling and positng most of this) Keys usually
supposed to be held down simultaneously
In general try: Ctrl - Alt - + or : Ctrl - Esc
Acer notebooks: F2 key during Power-On Self-Test (POST)
American Megatrends (AMI): Del key during Power-On Self-Test
Award: Del, or Ctrl-Alt-Esc
AST Advantage: Ctrl-Alt-Esc
Compaq: F10 key after the square appears in the top right corner of
the screen during boot-up
Dell: Ctrl-Alt-Enter or on some models: Reset twice
DTK: Esc key during Power-On Self-Test
Hewlett-Packard Pavilion: F1 key during HP blue splash screen
IBM Aptiva 535: F1 while the square with the wavy lines is displayed
in the upper right corner during power-on
IBM Late model PS/1 Value Point and 330s: F1 during boot
IBM PS/2: Ctrl-Alt-Del, then Ctrl-Alt-Ins when the cursor is in the
top right corner. Or on some models: Alt-?
IBM PS/2s w/ Reference Partition: Ins during boot
Mr. BIOS: Ctrl-Alt-S during Power-On Self-Test
NEC: F2 during boot
Olivetti PC Pro: Shift-Ctrl-Alt - DEL on Num Pad
Packard Bell: For some models, F1 or F2 key during Power-On Self-Test
Phoenix: Ctrl-Alt-Esc, or Ctrl-Alt-S, or Ctrl-Alt-Enter, or
Ctrl Alt Ins or F1 during boot.
Tandon: Ctrl-Alt-Esc
Tandon 386: Ctrl-Shift-Esc
Toshiba: F1 during boot
Toshiba: Esc during boot
Zenith: Ctrl-Alt-Esc
Systems that might require reference disks:
some IBM PS/2
some older Compaqs
some older Epsons (Gemini)
some Toshiba
and some other old 286s
If you don't know what brand or model the computer or bios is,
you can try a system diagnostics utility to identify it.. There are
several in the simtel archive, hwinfo is a good one, syschk is
another. Look in:
<ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/sysinfo/>
See also Ric Greens pages
<http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/rlgreen/softlib1.htm>
for some freeware ones.
All the best,
Bjorn
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