Re: What KEY to press to get into BIOS menu??

One more thing to try.

In the old days, you could hold several random keys down while it's booting and it would cause a keyboard error. At which point the system would beep, report the error then display an option to press a certain key to go into the setup.

There are other ways of forcing a system error during boot that might also halt the system and have it display a prompt to enter the BIOS setup.


"Bob Brown" <.> wrote in message news:47nq03thfsnn166tv9l2nfllo25oc01u5b@xxxxxxxxxx
ASUS A8S-X motherboard.

Tried all the usual keys to try to get to BIOS menu during boot.
f5,f8,del key, all tried, tried them all?

Does anyone know which key I am suppose to press?

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