Cant get in my bios........Dell

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Clinetyme, Apr 21, 2008.

  1. Clinetyme

    Clinetyme Private First Class

    I have a dell inspiron 1100 laptop, i wanna format it and reinstall windows. I
    have the xp bootable disk, ive used it a dozen times....but the laptop isnt booting up the CD on start-up, which tells me i gotta change the boot sequence, but it wont let me in the bios to do this. It says to press f2 , i do and it still goes str8 to windows. Ive done some searchin and ive tried f1 thru f12 no luck......i tried fn+f1 to...no go ...ive tried tapping, pressing and praying......if anyone has a heads up on how to get this boot sequence switched around id really appreciate it....thx in advance
     
  2. tej46

    tej46 Private E-2

    I had this problem once with Dell found out to get to bios hit the delete key.
    I hope this helps you out.
     
  3. plodr

    plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

    The manual for your Inspiron 1100 says "Press F2 as soon as the Dell logo appears".
     
  4. Clinetyme

    Clinetyme Private First Class

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