I worked on several Dells of this vintage. The ones I worked on had the BIOS
keystroke hit during the "starting MS-DOS" message being displayed. I
believe the keystroke was <CTRL+ALT+ENTER> it was that or <CTRL+ALT+ESC>

Hope this helps,
David Olds

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Wright <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Saturday, February 20, 1999 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] getting into bios problem


>At 04:41 PM 2/19/99 , Edna Sloan wrote:
>>I have an old Dell 486, 50MHZ, model 450L that I can't get into the bios
>>on.  I have tried about every key combination I can think of--help anyone!
>
>
>These are the most common key stroke access combinations:
>
><del>
><ctrl+esc>
><esc>
><ctrl+alt+enter>
><F1>
><ctrl+alt+esc>
>
>Try these and let us know if they do not access the setup.
>
>   Bob
>
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