a question about BIOS

[IllNinoIsLoco]

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]

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]

Mash the keyboard. Something will work eventually. Or look in the documentation that is supposed to come with your computer.

[Rainecloud]

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]

Originally posted by Mistëfanyarë
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]

Or by removing the battery from the motherboard, which is easier for me

[Squally Leonharty]

Or reset to defaults in BIOS itself.

[Rainecloud]

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]

Originally posted by Squally Leonharty
Or reset to defaults in BIOS itself.

...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]

Some BIOSes can, Spuuky.

And Rainy (I suppose that's Mistëfanyarë ), I had no internet access for 1 week. It was boring without internet, you know.

[Spuuky]

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]

Then yours can't. Simple.

[crono_logical]

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 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

On a side note, my PC can still boot with a corrupted BIOS

[Spuuky]

I reset the BIOS with the jumper, and it worked again. This all happened long ago, I was just using it as an example.