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by anthonyserino6

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after missadjusting my bios in setup and saving it , my computer will not even enter post. I recieve a BOOTLOCK acomponied with a decreasing dual tone. I have tried clearing the cmos and removing the battery for a long time , but still BOOTLOCK. Please help me I don't think the board is really fried and I would like not to buy a new one.Is there a way to enter the bios w/o post? Or anything else I could do. THANKS

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by fred07

Hopefully you have a newer MB, if so check the MB manual for your shortcut keys or go to MB support page for Bios shortcut keys. On some AS EXAMPLE ONLY you press f5 and it will load default values on start up to bios. You should be able to press delete to enter bios before post or it may be the f1 or on some the f2 key. start with the delete and try the others and then go to the MB mfg page and find which key it is to shortcut. I really do hope you have the original MB manual.
Also could you add the comment of MB maker and type or version. That would also be of assistance to get much more specific help, here.

by don christner

From another computer search on-line to find the MB (or if you have the manual for the MB). On some MB you need to move a jumper, then apply power in order to remove the BIOS lock.

Don

by don christner

Another thing that you could do is to go on-line and search for the exact error message that you receive.

by cb42

What Motherboard do you have? A lot of the newer intel chipset boards have a way of revcovering your BIOS.

Also make certain that you take out all unnecessary PCI cards while you are trying to bring your system up. I had an issue like this once that was caused by a NIC.

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