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IllNinoIsLoco
10-07-2002, 07:54 PM
hey, im trying to get my bios screen. my motherboard has Award Medallion BIOS. how do i configure my bios? i tried the DEL key AND the F1 key. thanks
crono_logical
10-07-2002, 09:22 PM
Strange, mine's Award as well and I use DEL to access it. You sure you pressing it early enough?

Only other BIOS key combinations I can remember off the top of my head you could try are F10, or CTRL+A. But all AWARD BIOSs I've come across use DEL to access the BIOS.
Dr Unne
10-07-2002, 10:30 PM
Mash the keyboard. Something will work eventually. Or look in the documentation that is supposed to come with your computer.
Rainecloud
10-08-2002, 08:19 AM
Indeed. My DEL button takes a lot of hammer before it lets me into the BIOS.

Oh, and do be careful in there. Don't change anything unless you know exactly what it does.
Spuuky
10-08-2002, 09:09 AM
Originally posted by Mistėfanyarė
Don't change anything unless you know exactly what it does. Meh. You can always just reset it with a jumper to the default settings.
crono_logical
10-08-2002, 09:18 AM
Or by removing the battery from the motherboard, which is easier for me :p
Squally Leonharty
10-08-2002, 02:50 PM
Or reset to defaults in BIOS itself. :p
Rainecloud
10-08-2002, 05:30 PM
My comment still stands. The poor soul might not know how to:


"Just reset it with a jumper to the default settings."

Or:


"Reset to defaults in BIOS itself."

Squally - you're still alive? I haven't seen you for eons.
Spuuky
10-08-2002, 07:33 PM
Originally posted by Squally Leonharty
Or reset to defaults in BIOS itself. :p ...which doesn't work if you've messed up the clocking settings so you can't even get into the BIOS, like I did last time.
Squally Leonharty
10-08-2002, 08:41 PM
Some BIOSes can, Spuuky. :p

And Rainy (I suppose that's Mistėfanyarė :p), I had no internet access for 1 week. It was boring without internet, you know. :p
Spuuky
10-09-2002, 03:21 AM
My computer couldn't even get close to the BIOS, with the settings I put it at. It was actually the video card that I overclocked, and it just wouldn't display anything.
Squally Leonharty
10-09-2002, 07:23 AM
Then yours can't. Simple. :p
crono_logical
10-09-2002, 10:11 AM
If you can overclock the video card and make it save it's settings in that way, then there'd be a jumper on the video card to reset as well, or a battery to remove :p If you did a software overclock in Windows though, and it won't boot anymore, then there's a chance you've burnt the card out and need to replace it xD Try replacing the card with another one o see what happens :p

On a side note, my PC can still boot with a corrupted BIOS :p
Spuuky
10-09-2002, 10:28 AM
I reset the BIOS with the jumper, and it worked again. This all happened long ago, I was just using it as an example.