What bios is it? Award? AMI? Pheonix? if you cannot tell from the POST check the chip on the motherboard... Gateway has a pretty good support site, have you tried to find a Manual there? try the following link: http://www.gateway.com/support/product/components/index.shtml -munir On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Scott Raun wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:40:47PM +0000, Shawn wrote: > > It has 32MB ram, it's a P120 old gateway desktop. For some reason, > > can't get into the bios either to set the HW date. Tried, F1, F2, del, > > space all to no avail. Just remembered that. > > Try all the variations on {Ctl|Alt|Shift} {Enter|S} at a command > prompt. Some BIOS intercept that keystroke set after boot to enter > setup. > >