How to access the BIOS

BIOS List

Acer Ctrl-Alt-Esc F1, F2
ALR PC Ctrl-Alt-Esc or F2
AMI BIOS Del or F1 or F2
Aptiva F1
AST, Advantage Ctrl-Alt-Esc
Award BIOS Del or Ctrl-Alt-Esc
Compaq F10 ( when the cursor is blinking in the top right corner of the screen)
Dell F1 or Del or Ctrl-Alt-Enter (Some require pressing reset twice )
DTK BIOS Esc
Gateway 2000 F1
Hewlett Packard F1
IBM Older models hold down both mouse buttons
IBM PS/1 late model Value Point and 330s F1
IBM PS/2 Ctrl-Alt-InsIBM PS/2 with reference partition Ins
IBM Some PS/2s, such as 75 and 90 Ctrl-Alt
IBM Some PS/2s when pointer at top right of screen Ctrl-Ins
Fortiva 5000 Ctrl-Alt-A
NEC F2
Packard Bell F1 or F2
Phoenix BIOS F1 or F2 or Ctrl-Alt-Esc or Ctrl-Alt-S or Ctrl-S or Ctrl-Alt-Ins
Sharp Laptop 9020 F2
Sony F3 while you are starting the PC, then F2 or F1
Tandon Ctrl-Shift-Esc or Ctrl-Alt-Esc
Toshiba Laptops Toshiba Utility
Toshiba Esc or F1
Olivetti PC Pro Shift-Ctrl-Alt + “NumericPadDel”
Miscellaneous PC's Ctrl-Esc or Ctrl-Alt and +
Zenith Ctrl-Alt-Ins