[Gllug] Manuals for Tecra 500.....

[Stig Brautaset]

* Nix <nix at esperi.demon.co.uk> spake thus:
> On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Axel Segebrecht spake:
> >> Will this tell you how to get at the BIOS?
> > 
> > hey - cheers colin :)
> 
> FWIW an ugly hack I've found to get at the BIOSes on many recalcitrant
> laptops is just to hold down a key while it's booting. On many laptops
> you'll then get a key stuck error and the option to get into the BIOS
> setup screen.
> 
> If a key really is stuck this is pretty useless; but as a hack to get
> into the setup screen it works OK :)

heh, on this baby (Dell Latitude CPx H500GT) I can enter bios setup
anytime, not just on reboot. I just hit the special `Fn' key and F1.

Regards,
Stig

(who is waiting for someone to call this a bug, not a feature :P)

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