How do I access my bios?>

[sesquim]

I heard somewher that when your computer boots you have to press a keyboard button. I have a compaq, 466 celeron. Anyone know what buttton I should press?

THannks.

[Toppro]

when your computer boots up and counts the memory, at the botton it should say to go to setup press either del, f1 or f2

[shamus]

Pretty sure it's F10. Press it during the Compaq boot up splash screen. You should see a flashing white rectangle in the upper right hand corner of your screen. Push it then.

[Stalemate]

We use Compaq at work and F10 gives access to the BIOS.

[WebHead]

And sometimes you have to hold the F1 button while turning on the PC.

[kannibul]

I remember older computers you had to do a crtl-shift-del or ctrl-alt-s and other fun combinations...
Take one a half hour to figure out those... (usually they weren't listed either)

[freddy]

yes ............unplug your floppy ,,,,or take a stick of memory out- put one in ,,,,
it (the computer) will complain about not having a floppy/memory and say "press xxxxx for setup xxxx to continue.

usually works for me!!!!!!

[J_Man]

Most Compaqs use the F10 key to access the M/B BIOS. Some real old ones require a special boot disk.

[Sandwich]

J man, that's exactly right! I had two old compaq's that required a special disk to get into the bios. Of course, I hadn't bought them new, but used and had no boot disk. This kept me from upgrading thier HDD's. I built three computers and s-canned the comcrap's!