Re: I asked the wrong thing!!! - Re: Which KEY to press to get to BIOS menu??

Bert Hyman <bert@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In news:J3kPh.3384$YL5.1201@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx John Doe
<jdoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Bob Brown <.> wrote:

It is an ASUS A8S-X motherboard, but what I "meant" to ask was
what KEY do I press to boot into safe-mode for xp?

I have tried F5-F8 and it just gives me an option to book to
either a hard drive or optical drive, no safe mode option?

The problem is that apparently ASUS isn't smart enough to know
you have to use F8 in order to enter Windows XP boot menu.

Maybe the MB was designed for Linux :-)

But that's the way it is on my non-server mainboard too.
It's just a dumb choice for a drive-select menu.
.

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