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    enter bios on TM 290

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by girlfriendslaptop, Apr 5, 2006.

  1. girlfriendslaptop

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    Hi,
    I need to reinstall windows on my girlfriend's Travelmate 290. I do have three CDs for system recovery that shipped with the laptop. I cannot enter the menu where I can change the boot device order to CD first, nor can I enter the bios to change things there.
    This is beause the scree on this laptop stays black, meaning switched off, until windows is already booted. So basically I see nothing, the hard disk is already working, then for one second the acer startup scree with this guy running from left to right, and instantly after that the windows welcome screen.
    I already flashed the bios, installed recent chipset drivers, installed recent graphics card drivers. Nothing.

    Basically can somebody tell me how I make the screen come up right on startup, so I can access and work in the bios (I dont even now what f-key I have to press on acer machines), or can somebody tell me how I can -blindly- enter the boot device selection men and choose CD as first boot device.

    Thanks
     
    girlfriendslaptop, Apr 5, 2006
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