RCR BIOS KEYS HELP FILE: del during boot AMI, Award Ctrl-Alt-Esc Acer or slap the F keys down to see the hidden screen (plato) Esc during boot Toshiba F1 during boot Toshiba; Phoenix; Late model PS/1 Value Point and 330s F2 during boot NEC F10 when square in top RH corner of screen Compaq Ins during boot IBM PS/2s w/ Reference Partition Reset twice Some Dells Alt Enter Dell Alt ? some PS/2s Ctrl-Esc General Ctrl Ins some PS/2s when pointer at top right of screen Ctrl Alt Esc AST Advantage, Award, Tandon Ctrl Alt + General Ctrl Alt S Phoenix Ctrl Alt Ins Zenith, Phoenix Ctrl S Phoenix Ctrl Shift Esc Tandon 386 Shift Ctrl Alt + Num Pad del Olivetti PC Pro Setup disk Old Compaqs, Epson (Gemini), IBM, IBM PS/2, Toshiba, old 286s DELL Laptops by Tacitus On most LatitudeT systems (except the LM), press the + keys simultaneously at any time. On all InspironT systems and the Latitude LM, press the key as the system powers up. Bios Passwords: You get three attempts to get in, after which the system will have to be rebooted. The default is usually the manufacturer's initials (try ami), or biostar, biosstar, AWARD?SW, AWARD?PW, LKWPETER, 589589, aLLy, condo, djonet, lkwpeter, j262 SWITCHES?SW, AWARD_SW, or Shift + S Y X Z for Award (before 19 Dec 96), but if this doesn't work, or you forget your own password, you must discharge the CMOS. One way to do this is simply to wait for five years until the battery discharges (ten if you've got a Dallas clock chip)! You could also remove the CMOS chip or the battery and just hang on for twenty minutes or so. Look for the chips mentioned below, under Clearing Chips. You could try flooding the keyboard buffer to crash the password routine - just wait for the password prompt, then keep pressing esc.