On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:45:20AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Marlize Cloete wrote: > > >Please help (in plain English please) as I am not a "rocket scientist" > >when it comes to PC's > > > > > When you first turn on your computer, you'll probably see a message > saying something like "F1 Setup" or "Press F12 to enter BIOS" or "F2 for > CMOS Setup". This depends on your make/model of computer. You might have > to look in the computer's manual or search the web for how to get into > the CMOS/BIOS/SETUP/FIRMWARE on your particular machine.
Trouble is not all BIOSes tell you...
Other possible keys: Del
Alt-Esc
Ctrl-Alt-Esc
If you can't find it, try generating some sort of boot error. This
often forces a recalcitrant BIOS to issue a message saying press some
key to continue or some other key to enter SETUP. Sometimes pressing
or holding random keys can generate a keyboard error which does the
trick - you may have to try it more than once. If the BIOS has been
set to ignore keyboard errors, a more drastic method such as
unplugging a hard drive cable might be the thing.
Failing that, a trivial amount of googling on your motherboard type
number will find you the motherboard manual as a .pdf and the
instructions will be in there.
> Once in the Setup, there's an option somewhere amongst those dozens of
> choices to turn off the Chipaway Virus. Change it; save your settings,
> and you're done.
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