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    Gateway P7811 BIOS setup issue

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by angare, Dec 18, 2009.

  1. angare

    angare Newbie

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    I haven't been able to find any other posts on this specific issue so I decided to start a new one. I entered my BIOS (vis F2) and changed the HDD to IDE and one other thing for which I cant remember. Now when I power on the p-7811 it prints some text out and goes straight to the Windows boot. I can not re-enter the BOOT setup even when I pound or hold the F2 key from power on.

    Does anyone know another way or how I might enter the BIOS setup when the F2 option appears to be gone?
     
    angare, Dec 18, 2009
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  2. AGlobalThreatsK

    AGlobalThreatsK Notebook Evangelist

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    Press F8 or F10 or whatever the Boot Menu shortcut is. Then when the boot menu appears go to the bottom and choose Enter Setup. This is a known problem that most P78** users experience.
     
    AGlobalThreatsK, Dec 18, 2009
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  3. angare

    angare Newbie

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    Thanks for the reply AGlobal; however, the issue is the Boot Menu never comes up at all. I can hit F2 (and have tried F8 & F10) from power on continually and the only boot I get is the windows boot menu. The system BIOS boot menu no longer comes up at all. I tried your suggestion in the windows boot menu but as expected it does not work. I am not exactly sure what I changed to get the PC into this mode where it seems to power on past the BIOS menu and straight into windows vista.
     
    angare, Dec 19, 2009
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    angare Newbie

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    Seems I found a back door into the BIOS. Even though I was pounding the same keys during every boot cycle the power up sequence seemed to vary slightly from cycle to cycle. I got one menu to come up (not the typical system bios page) that had an enter bios setup selection which got me where I needed to go. Thanks again
     
    angare, Dec 19, 2009
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