Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

  • Congratulations bkrike on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Dell Latitude laptop

Status
Not open for further replies.

tpman

Programmer
Oct 15, 2004
25
US
I would like to reload one of our old laptops with XP. It is a CPi D300XT with BIOS revision A05, Win NT 4.0 SP6. I want to reset the boot order but can't get into the BIOS. I have pressed pf1 and pf8 when it is booting up with no luck. What do I need to do in order to reset the boot order. I do not have the swappable floppy, just a cd-rom drive.
 
On most of our Dell Latitude's, try F2 while the Dell logo is on the screen.
As I don't have one to hand, I can't give you exact instructions on how to edit the boot order.

John
 
On my Latitutude you hit F12 immediately on startup.
This brings up a boot order screen.
 
I had to also press the Fn key while pressing the F3 key on boot up. Got into the BIOS after doing that. Got the OS loaded just fine. Thanks.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top