[FADCA] BIOS SET UP KEY - Dell OptiPlex GL 5133

[bud thompson]

Thanks to Dave, Bill and Keith!

I took the battery out (had to remove the hard drive physically to do
that).. left no drive to boot from and boot up doesn't get far.. Then it sez
to use F2 to run setup up utility.. Worked fine.

With the battery back in all boots up fine with the few changes I made to
the set up. (Disabled LPT to gain another comport.)

Now have two on-board comports and seven, count 'em 7 free IRQs

Ain't DOS wonderful with only one HD, no CDROM drive and no sound card!

Thanks all.

bud

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Calder" <n4zkf at n4zkf.com>
To: "'Florida Amateur Digital Communication Association'"
<fadca at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 08:23
Subject: RE: [FADCA] BIOS SET UP KEY - Dell OptiPlex GL 5133


>
> Bud,
>
> You have several chances. I didn't see anything on it at dell.
> But
> when I had my computer store you could have anything. Do as Bill
> said, remove something. Even the jumper to the bios battery to
> the
> battery itself.
>
>
> F1
> F2
> F12
> control alt escape
> control alt S
>
>
> Just something to try
>
> Dave n4zkf
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fadca-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:fadca-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bill Sinbine
> Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 8:17 AM
> To: Florida Amateur Digital Communication Association
> Subject: Re: [FADCA] BIOS SET UP KEY - Dell OptiPlex GL 5133
>
>
> At 06:52 AM 5/30/2004, you wrote:
> >Deltona
> >Sunday May 30 0650E
> >
> >Trying to get one of these old confuser set up for the Clermont FPAC
> >switch.  It is a Dell OptiPlex GL 5133... With Phoenix BIOS
> >
> >Anyone know how to get to BIOS set up at boot up?  I've tried ESC,
> PAUSE,
> >DEL and a lot of others.. what is the secret?
> >
> >thanks
> >
> >bud N0IA
> >386 574 4124
>
> If all else fails bud you could try and either disconnect say the floppy
> or
> hard drive and then boot it up and you should get the device failed hit
> whatever to continue and that might let you know what it is OR
> disconnect
> the battery for a few minutes and then boot it up as that would dump the
>
> bios and you would have to get to the bios to set it up. Both should
> come
> up on the screen.
>
> Did you try F1?
>
> You also might find some info on dells web site for that model if you
> search around.
>
>
>
> Think about it .....
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> A: Top-posting.
> Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
>
> Bill Sinbine
> n4xeo at bellsouth.net
>
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