How to get into the BIOS on your machine


Acer: - Ctrl, Alt, Esc

ALR PC: - F2, or Ctrl, Alt, Esc,

AMI BIOS: - Del, F1, or F2,

AST, Advantage, Award, Tandon: - Ctrl, Alt, Esc

Award BIOS: - Del, or Ctrl, Alt, Esc,

Compaq: - F10, when the cursor is in the upper right corner of the screen blinking,

Dell: - F1 or Del.

Dell: - Some require pressing reset twice

Dell: - Ctrl, Alt, Enter

DTK BIOS: - Esc

Gateway 2000: - F1

Hewlett Packard: - F1

IBM Aptiva: - Press F1

IBM PS/2: - Ctrl, Alt, Ins, after Ctrl, Alt, Del,

IBM PS/2 with reference partition: - Press Ins during boot

Some PS/2s, such as 75 and 90: - Ctrl, Alt, ?

Some PS/2s when pointer at top right of screen: - Ctrl, Ins

NEC: - F2

Packard Bell: - F1 or F2

Phoenix BIOS: - F1, F2, or Ctrl, Alt, Esc,

Phoenix BIOS: - Ctrl, Alt S

Phoenix BIOS: - Ctrl, S

Phoenix BIOS: - Ctrl, Alt, Ins

Sharp Laptop 9020: - F2

Sony: - F3, while you are starting the PC, then F2, or F1,

Tandon computers: - Hold down the key after turning on power

Tandon: - Ctrl, Shift, Esc

Toshiba Laptops: - Toshiba Utility

Toshiba: - Press Esc during boot

Toshiba, Phoenix: - Press F1 during boot

Olivetti PC Pro: - Shift Ctrl Alt, Num Pad Del

Miscellaneous PC's: - Ctrl, Esc or Ctrl and Alt and +

Zenith: - Ctrl, Alt, Ins