Laptop..need to know what bio's is

[LilScoooters]

I have a laptop from a Clone Company that is out of business... i need to get into the bios to enable or change the settings so the
seriel mouse ports will work..but current bios is screwed up... Is there a software out there that will identfy my bio's and a web page where i can maybe go to get a upgraded version for this mobo...???

 

[corkyg]

In the first part of the boot cycle, the POST, it should tell you on screen which key press to access the BIOS. Some laptops use DEL . . . some use F1, and my current one uses F2.

 

[Kp99]

Try F10 also.

 

[AncientMariner]

Try the Cmos pin. A freind of my was going insane one time because he could not figure out how to get past the password protection on the laptop. It was an old 386 but he wouldn't let me touch it because of fear i would screw something up, yet he sat there and kept on entering passwords! ( yeah i know, a real idiot! ), so when he got up and went to go get another beer, i simply opened the laptop ( he had already unscrewed it ) and flashed the cmos ( lol i feel like an under cover op. ), then when he came back he was like " why the f#$%did you shut it off dude what the f$%?!?!" Whereas i was like turn on you laptop dude i fixed it, to his disbelief it booted up and asked hime to enter a password, at which point he skipped it and let windows boot, then proceded to thank me and ran around his house like ten year old with a slurpee, so, try the cmos if it has one ( which i belive they all do) just be careful not to break anything in the process, some laptops are fragile, never force it, Peace

JRD

 

[LilScoooters]

thx's all I will try what u all suggest...