Posted by Lee Marsh on 08/13/07 11:46

Colin Wilson wrote:
>>> How the hell do you get into the BIOS ? (it's not shown in the manual)
>>> Neither F1 or DEL work, but i'm sure I had to hit F1 to set the date
>>> and time (it hadn't been used for some time, and had lost all its'
>>> settings)
>> From memory - on mine used to have to run TSETUP program from DOS.
>
> There is a control panel of sorts, but i'm not entirely sure it's
> doing what I want :-}
>
> I set the battery usage to conservative - i.e. not a super-bright
> screen, lower processor speed etc, and now I need to flip it back to
> normal - i've discovered the battery is goosed anyway, so for now it's
> a mains powered beastie :-}
>
> It took me almost 5 feckin' hours to install all the update patches
> for it last night (I had them all downloaded as a package from
> autopatcher.com) and it was really starting to cheese me off - ok,
> it's a little light on memory, but it's a 2.5Ghz processor (albeit a
> celery)

Colin,

Turn the laptop of as soon as you turn it on hold down the "Esc" key and
press "F1" to enter the bios. I used to repair Tosh laptops for a living.

Cheers,

Lee.

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