bios problem

[ew_topcat]

Hi I was playing around in bios on my pc at home and inadvertantly changed a setting and now the machine wont switch on, not even the monitor or keyboard. It wont boot from floppy or cd drive. I switched the 'boot command' to 'default' and now I am stuck, any ideas?

[dontlift]

well that was silly wasnt it, reset the old bios chap...... have a look through you manual as the procedure changes from machine to machine, but on alot of boards it is a simple case of disconnect power from the motherboard, remove on board battery (if there is one) and wait about 5 mins for it to die before putting everything back, but all depends on the machine .

[Gerrard]

also, there is often a jumper you need to move across a couple of pins, leave for a few seconds, then back again. It'll be in your motherboard manual or on the manufacturers website.