BIOs is disabled - not able to get in BIOS

[Llanosflats]

Hi

I´m trying to install fedora core on a old pentium III based workstation(fiori e 810). It doesnt boot from the cd (tried many different ones) and I know the cd drive works (SCSI cd drive).

It starts booting and tells me "press tab to enter set up", i press tab (tried del and f2 too) and then tells me press F1 or F11 then it takes me to a screen where it says BIOS is disabled and reboot itself!!!

I have tryied many things, different hdd, leave teh system to the minimun conf, next I´m gonna try a ide cd drive but I still dont understand why i cannot acces in BIOS.

I have an SCSI controller and an IDE controller, drives are IDE not SCSI, cd drive is SCSI.

Can the BIOS be disabled??!!! how will a system boot if so???!!! Could it be anything to do with the scsi drive or the scsi card???? First time in my life i´ve seen sth like that...

[Vergil83]

you might try reseting the bios. Most computers have some sort of thing on the motherboard

[jweekley1]

on most motherboards there is a jp14 that is used to reset the bios.
See if that helps

[Llanosflats]

Hi, thanx for your suggestions

I have actually tried the jumper, you mean the jumper by the battery, dont you? Yes, I tried that, forgot to post that one. It didnt help.

Now, after reseaching I'm starting thinking that the BIOS got corrupted and I should actually do a kind of recovery I guess. Could it be that? How can I do it if I cannot find any info of the board on the net? Any tools available? or does that depend on the board and the chipset?

i might need to reseach more for sure, there should be sth on the net about that workstation!!!!

[jweekley1]

if someone tried to reset with pc running that could corupt the BIOS

[Oxygen]

If the BIOs was corrupted I don't think it'd be polite enough to give you a BIOs is disabled warning. Would the BIOs reset itself if you drained it of power? Took the battery off the MOBO or would that just render it nothing more than a dusty paperweight?