Re: New laptop...........

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Charlie wrote:
> > For CD-ROM BIOS updates in Windows 8 models: (1) Shut down the system
> while pressing the SHIFT key to completely power off. (2) Power on
> > while pressing F2 to enter the BIOS Setup Menu.
> Miles, you are the man, That worked.
>
> Now please allow me to thank you. I trolled the net for hours last night
> into the early hours till our solar batteries were at the limit.
>
> Thank you for your good discovery skills.

You're most welcome, and Aww shucks :-)

(actually, I had to track the same thing down for another laptop, about 
a year ago - must have retained some memory of the search strategy - 
turns out to have been
"Toshiba C50D Satellite linux bios" - in case that's useful to someone else)

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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra