How do i get into the bios? i have a hp pavilion pc, and i can only get into some sort of bios, pressing F1 or F11. is there anyway i can get into the 'real' bios??also i ran bootvis (it works for me) but it said that 'disk write caching is disable'. can i enable this? also i had my hard drive replaced under warranty from PC world, could they have messed up?
View 9 RepliesI've been messing with and Googling this problem all day and am stumped My laptop:
Toshiba A105-S4134 XP SP2 MCE 2005 Intel T2400 Duo Core 2 GB RAM1. Two days ago I had a glitch - a bunch of browser windows were open and the system just sort of froze up. I ended up doing a hard restart. The PC then took a longer than normal time to boot back up.2. That made me nervous, so yesterday I made True Image images of both partitions on the HD, that is C: (OS and apps) and D: (data).3. This morning I decided to run a memory diagnostic disk (I had memtest86+ and Windows Diagnostics CDs on hand). I set boot priority to CD/DVD ROM using Start > All Programs > Toshiba > Utilities > Toshiba Assist > Optimize > Toshiba Hardware Settings
not to enter bios setup
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