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How to get into the setup on a Phoenix BIOS?



 
 
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Old September 12th 10, 12:24 AM posted to comp.sys.intel
James Harris
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Default How to get into the setup on a Phoenix BIOS?

On 11 Sep, 22:12, Ted Shoemaker wrote:
Hello,

Someone gave me an old Dell.

When I tried to start it, *the BIOS required a password, which I
didn't know. *The usual backdoor passwords didn't get any results, so
I removed and replaced the CMOS battery. *That got me past the
password, but now the BIOS has forgotten everything else it's
supposed
to do, also.

How do I get into the setup, so as to start using the machine? *It's
looking for something particular (details below); what do I tell it?

I've pressed Del, F2, Esc, and a lot of other keys, trying to
enter the setup. *Nothing happens.

Following is the relevant information from the startup screen.

= = = = = =

PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0
4S4EB2X0.10A.0032.P10

Dell Dimension XPS T800r
BIOS Version A09

SERIAL PRESENCE DETECT (SPD) device data missing or inconclusive.

Press Del to enter SETUP.


And pressing Del doesn't work even at this point? If not be aware that
memory modules use SPD. Maybe it can't progress to BIOS setup with
duff memory. Perhaps you can remove or replace DIMMs to give it some
working memory to, er, work with.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_presence_detect

James
 




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