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I’m new so bare with me. I recently bought this Toshiba satellite 4005cds for 7 bucks and I plan to play old windows 98 games on it. The original owner had taken out his harddrive, (for obvious reasons.) I got the power supply that was sold specifically for it just today in the mail. apon plugging it in it will only go as far as displaying the Toshiba logo on the screen. I know it wouldn’t go farther because of the lack of the harddrive to boot to anything, I just wanted to check out the bios. when I tried the tricks Toshiba has on their website, nothing works. after a few seconds of pressing almost any button, it starts beeping every time any key is pressed. So here’s my main question: is there a way to access the bios without a hardrive, and if so, how? Thanks!
Hi @ilikeoldtech, Try the following method, (known as the Esc key method) and see if that gets you into the setup area: (apologies if you already tried this but you didn’t specify what you did when you stated “…..I tried the tricks Toshiba has on their website ….” Turn the computer on. If you do not see a prompt to press the F2 key, then immediately press and hold the Esc key for three (3) seconds, and then release it. When prompted to, press the F1 key. The Setup screen will appear.
The BIOS is stored on a chip on the motherboard, so you don’t need a harddrive. I don’t know why you cannot acces the BIOS by pressing the keys but maybe someone else here knows? Anyway good look!
