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Help and Support Forums => Technical Support => Topic started by: kriy on October 20, 2000, 08:05:00 PM
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I recently installed a voodoo5 card and my startup is interrupted by a F1:BOOT/F10:SETUP screen. Ok, no problem, I can hit f1 (sigh) everytime I startup. But now holding down the spacebar on startup doesnt get me this mysterious 'setup' where I can adjust my BIOS settings. There are no BIOS settings on the f10:SETUP menus? Where is BIOS...? Ohhh Biiii oooooooos!!?
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Strange... What you are seeing MUST be the video bios. (On ALL systems the video bios screen will pop up before the main system bios screen.)
Try pressing delete, f1, and f2 right after that screen, those 3 keys are the ones most commonly used to enter the system bios. Somewhere in the video bios that you are talking about there must be an item to disable this, that sounds like a major annoyance. I'll do some research for you and find out what's going on?
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bloom25
THUNDERBIRDS
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I tried to find anything about what you are describing, but couldn't. I'd recommend you go to http://www.3dfxgamers.com/boards.asp (http://www.3dfxgamers.com/boards.asp) and then to the v4,v5 support forum and post your problem there.
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bloom25
THUNDERBIRDS
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Well Bloom, I downloaded something on the 3dfx page called Powertweak which loads on startup and optimizes your processor settings and agp/pci devices. Im assuming that these are part of the Bios settings? Im still getting that annoying DOS looking screen on startup F1:BOOT F10:SETUP. The F10 settings dont look much like the ones on Powertweak, but maybe they were the un-updated settings? How often do you need to update Bios anyway? Hopefullly im running a little better now : )
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Clearly something has changed in your BIOS settings, and it wants you to go in and "confirm" them, or make some changes and save them. With luck, the changes are made automatically, and maybe all you have to do is enter BIOS (by pressing F10) and then choose Save and Exit.
If that doesn't work, you will have to try something else.
A BIOS update might be a good idea, but it is always a bit of a risk. If you screw up the update proces, you are toast until you get a new BIOS chip. Luckily, it is a fairly simple process these days. What sort of motherboard do you have, and when did you buy it?
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