However I ran into this when a non-Dell keyboard was used. Be sure the keyboard is the Dell one and plugged into the port they showed in the setup diagrams.
I have a Dell xps420 2.8 cpu Q 9400 windows 7 I can not get into the bios by tapping f2 I got in touch with Dell and he had me reset the bios on the mother board but that did not fix the problem everything else works great except fot that. Anyone have any ideas why this is happening
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