Re: Cannot access BIOS- WHY?

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From: CRYING OUT LOUD (CRYINGOUTLOUD_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 09:27:04 -0800

Thanks Jim, thats what I thought and thats what I have been doing. I tried
alternating different keys and tried pressing & holding and tried multiple
pressing but the BIOS will not come up.

 If the hard drive is CRASHED would I still be able to access the BIOS?

If so, this is looking more and more like a virus attack would you agree?

Thanks for your comments and suggestions!

"Jim Macklin" wrote:

> Access to the BIOS must be done immediately after powering
> ON and before Windows begins to load, you have just a few
> seconds to press the correct key that is listed in the
> manual for your computer. Somebody probably got into your
> BIOS and set a boot password, you will need to remove the in
> the BIOS.
>
>
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> "CRYING OUT LOUD" <CRYINGOUTLOUD@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote in message
> news:0A0D53D9-8F2E-4369-B629-E95CE16B582F@microsoft.com...
> |I cannot access my BIOS. I have tried all the simple ways
> by pressing (esc,
> | F2, DEL, Shift, F1, ...ect...) to do it but will
> | not work. Are there any EXPERTS in this area? I need to
> get into BIOS
> | becasue my computer will not BOOT. It will go to MSDOS
> and request a
> | "BUILT-IN HDD PASSWORD" to which I have NO earthly Idea
> what it is as I never
> | set one.
> |
> | I can only get to the Toshiba splash screen during boot
> and then it goes to
> | the HDD password MSDOS prompt.
> |
> | Is the access to BIOS immediately after pressing on or
> farther in the
> | startup process?
> |
> | If I could access BIOS I think I could reset the
> passwords. Am I wrong?
> |
> | Thanks.
> |
>
>
>

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