TSGL: Old computer

[The Computer Whisperer]

Have you tried both USB and PS2 keyboards? sometimes systems work with one
or the other depending on the system settings.

If you want to reset BIOS, take the battery out and leave the pc overnight.

Sometimes if you take the battery out and start the pc with no battery on
some systems it resets the bios.

Sometimes the motherboard will have a jumper setting that resets.

Regards,

Justin

2008/7/14 Don Penlington <deepend at tpg.com.au>:

> At 01:15 PM 7/14/2008 +1000, you wrote:
> >Please define "no access to bios"
> >
> >Does it tell you which key to press to enter bios?>>
>
>
> Yes.
>
> Bottom of POST screen says "Press delete to enter setup" and "...Escape to
> exit".
>
> I've pressed umpteen keys---Esc, Del, F2-4, F8-10--all known good keyboards
> (3) seem dead. Nothing happens.
>
> It's not even trying to find NTLdr or whatever the next step normally is.
> Just dies at the POST screen. If any of the XP boot sequence files were
> missing/corrupt, I'd expect an error message.  So it's not even starting to
> load XP.
>
> Don Penlington
>
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