[Malvern] BIOS problems.

[Cheryl Phillips]

Whats the bios manufacturer? (or if its a prebuilt PC whos the PC manufacturer?) Has the bios been upgraded at all? 

Cheryl


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-------- Original Message --------
From: GEOFF BAGLEY <geoff.bagley at btinternet.com>
Apparently from: malvern-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
To: malvern at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [Malvern] BIOS problems.
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:14:52 +0100 (BST)

> I have just been to visit a friend who would like to
> try Linux,  and as a first step, I intended to use
> Knoppix to find out all about his hardware, video
> card, etc.
> 
> However,  when the BIOS came up with the typical "hit
> del to enter set-up" message, the del key was ignored,
> and we re-booted XP (yet again) - several times!
> 
> I was hoping to change the boot sequence in order to
> put "boot from CD/DVD" ahead of "boot from main hard
> drive",  but was unable to enter the BIOS SET-UP mode.
> 
> The keyboard was a typical M$ PS/2  keyboard.  "Del"
> was actually "delete" - anyway, no joy.
> 
> Any suggestions please ?
> 
> Geoff.
> 
> 
> 
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