Joined: 30 Oct 2006 Posts: 74 Location: Franken, Bavaria, Germany
Posted: Sat 29 Sep 2012, 16:49 Post subject:
To get into BIOS or something similar, it often helps to hold down any key while booting, thus emulating a stuck key. The machine usually reports a keyboard error and offers you to start, or enter setup.
starhawk
Joined: 22 Nov 2010 Posts: 1818 Location: Everybody knows this is nowhere...
Posted: Sun 30 Sep 2012, 16:56 Post subject:
That does work... sometimes... other times it just beeps at you till you let up on the key. _________________ siht daer nac uoy fi uoy od os dna skcor yppup
Joined: 30 Oct 2006 Posts: 74 Location: Franken, Bavaria, Germany
Posted: Mon 01 Oct 2012, 07:38 Post subject:
didn't meet one machine that let me down with this method yet Even my stupid futro thin client lets me into its BIOS after a 'stuck key'. Not that there are a lot of settings, though ...
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