Olivier

BTW, I don't count the number of friends who call me to repair their
computers, although they assured me to have not done any change in the bios,
but "navigating" here and there, just out of curiosity. I particulary
remember the last one who set an administrator password on his bios, and who
was telling me, some hours later, that the only thing he had done was to
secure his windows account by adding a password.

So, may I suggest that you, or anybody else, should not in any way "exit the
bios saving changes" unless you do know perfectly what you've done, what it
implies and why you've done this. If there is any little doubt, discard any
change. The same philosophy applies to any other program, not only bios...
Why, by the hell, programmers did offer you a clean solution to exit without
messing anything, if you're not even willing to use it ? <g>

regards

PS: Sorry if I offended some sensibilities, but I've spend too much time
trying to undo what too much "innocent" people denied to have done. My next
buy will be a crystal ball, it will surely help a lot more <vbeg>

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Olivier