Unable to access BIOS Windows XP Professional
Hello everyone,
I installed Windows XP Professional on my MacBook Pro. When I start up from the Windows Partition, it brings me to the startup page of windows xp (where I am supposed to start BIOS) and then to the setup (not the setup with the blue background, I have done that already). After about 1 minute of installing, it tells me "Fatal Error". The date and time are incorrect. I have to go into the BIOS and correct it. The problem is that I don't know how to get access to the BIOS!! Does anyone know how I can get to it?
Thanks,
iloveisrael.
One of the few disappointments of my switch to Mac: no BIOS for some really wonderful OS cloning software I own. There is a fascinating tool-project going on for EFI though... http://refit.sourceforge.net/
Further: http://www.intel.com/technology/efi/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExtensibleFirmwareInterface
http://www.uefi.org/specs/
(All way over my head, BTW)
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