At 12/5/00 10:18 AM, Irena Thomas wrote:

>What is a key combination for 'American Megatrends 1996' setup access ?

The Setup access is dependant on the PC, and not the bios company (American
Megatrends is a bios company).  Some common access methods are:

Alternate BIOS Entry Method     System

del during boot                 AMI, Award
Esc during boot                 Toshiba
F1 during boot                  Toshiba; Phoenix; Late model PS/1
ValuePoint and 330s
F2 during boot                  NEC
F10 when square in
top RH corner of screen         Compaq
Ins during boot                 IBM PS/2s w/ Reference Partition
Reset twice                     Some Dells
Alt Enter                       Dell
Alt ?                           some PS/2s
Ctrl-Esc                        General
Ctrl Ins                        some PS/2s when pointer at top right of screen
Ctrl Alt Esc                    AST Advantage, Award, Tandon
Ctrl Alt +                      General
Ctrl Alt S                      Phoenix
Ctrl Alt Ins                    Zenith, Phoenix
Ctrl S                          Phoenix
Ctrl Shift Esc                  Tandon 386
Shift Ctrl Alt + Num Pad del    Olivetti PC Pro
Setup disk                      Old Compaqs, Epson (Gemini), IBM,IBM PS/2,
                                 Toshiba, most old 286s


Hope this helps.

Doug

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