how do i go into the bios? someone told me to select auto detection?

Question

to see if the computer can find my cd player.

Answer 1

To find the CMOS setup screen, reboot your computer. Start by pressing a certain keyboard combination during startup. You should see a line of text at the bottom of the display that tells you which key or keys you need to press to enter the CMOS or Setup area. (NOTE: You may have to completely shut down your system and turn it back on to see what this key combination is.) Most systems use ESC, DELETE, F1, F2, CTRL-ESC, or CTRL-ALT-ESC. If the screen doesn’t indicate which keys to press, the computer’s documentation should do so.

The system is not detecting a new drive. Go to a CMOS setting called Drive Configuration, Hard Disk Settings, or even Devices And I/O Ports. It lets you configure the hard drives, CD-ROM drives, and diskette drives. PCs made in the past few years come with an automatic-detection program that enters configuration data into CMOS. If your system is older than that, or if you installed a drive your system is not detecting, enter the drive information manually to prompt your system to detect it. You do this in CMOS, where your drive information is located. This area is often called Drive Configuration, Hard Disk Settings, or something along those lines. There will be an option where you can choose between manual detection and automatic detection.

Answer 2

restart your computer, you will either hit delete or f1 as its booting up,, it will tell you on boot up screen,,

when you get there , depending on your bios setup ,, it should be listed in standard bios,, yes, you can click auto detect drives from that page, usaually the first on in the bios,, if it doesnt find it there, then you have to do a search in your operating system.. in the find new hardware section of your control panel

Answer 3

When the computer starts to boot, press the "special" key, often F2, but sometimes ESC, DEL, F1, F2, or F10, it depends on ythe barnd of computer.