Need to get to teh BIOS

So, uh, yeah, a few months ago, my old (DOS) computer stopped recognizing my hard drives. After an hour or two I gave up trying to get it to work. Later I rebooted the machine and it recognized my drives again. Problem: In the process of messing with the BIOS, I messed up the settings for my improtant drive, the D: drive, which had my Doom stuff in it. So . . . How to I boot into the BIOS under this DOS computer? The BIOS was made by Phoenix something, I think.

Grimm said:

So, uh, yeah, a few months ago, my old (DOS) computer stopped recognizing my hard drives. After an hour or two I gave up trying to get it to work. Later I rebooted the machine and it recognized my drives again. Problem: In the process of messing with the BIOS, I messed up the settings for my improtant drive, the D: drive, which had my Doom stuff in it. So . . . How to I boot into the BIOS under this DOS computer? The BIOS was made by Phoenix something, I think.

There's usually a jumper on the board, one lonely little jumper next to your CMOS battery. If you find one like that, that is the CMOS reset jumper, most likely. Consult your motherboard manual if possible, but I highly doubt a jumper at that position would be ANYTHING else. All you have to do is short it (possibly leave the jumper cap on it for 15 minutes?) and your BIOS settings will return to the manufacturer's defaults.

Best way to find what key is needed to access Bios is to unplug k/board, boot up, it tells you, "keyboard not found press (xxx) there ya go.

fodders said:

it tells you "keyboard not found press (xxx) there ya go.

"Telephone line cut off? CALL US TODAY!"

That sounds like it'll work. Thanks, guys.