How To Boot Bios on startup

[BullDog143]

Hey Everyody been going over alot of these threads lots of good help from good people, i am having a very annoying brain fart, i can't remember how to boot my windows xp home edition into BIOS at start up, i know i have done it before and it really is making me mad.

the reason being i made a bad buy and got the ATI Radeon 9600se and while every knows it sux it has to be better then my crappy on board graphics that this computer came with. well i am having problems installing the damn card and i hope that disabling the onboard graphics will be in BIOS and that should fix everything just i can't remember how.

you don't know how stupid i feel asking that but damn i've tried alot i know there is a key to press and hold or somthing but i have tried F1, CRTL and a few others any ideas which on it is for sure or another way to get into it would be great.

Thanks

[mikeL]

Bulldog143,
Welcome to PC-Mech, your in the right place for answers to your problems.

Try the delete key.

Don't ya just love those brain farts

Mike

[andyms18a]

a lot of computers use the delete key keep taping it when you switch the computer on if that don't work i need to know which make of computer you have

[yellohut]

it depends on what kind of computer you have, but the most common keys are del, F1, esc, and F2

just try tapping those one at a time..

also, when your computer is booting, look for a message that says something like "press del to enter setup"