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


"Bob Brown" <.> wrote in message
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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?

I'm not familiar with that particular motherboard, but it's the Delete key
on every motherboard I've owned over the last ten years or so.

However, TIMING can be very important. What I usually do is start tapping
the Delete key as soon as the boot process starts, and keep tapping it until
the BIOS menu comes up. That always works for me, and if I don't do that
often I can't get into the BIOS.

Neil


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