How do I get into BIOS of old Dell system?

[Thomas Wright]

support.dell.com

some machines use f8, some f2 and some the del key but all are described 
on on the dell support site.
see 
http://support.dell.com/us/en/kb/document.asp?DN=1045712#Dimension#Dimension
for some clues

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 17:57:07 -0400, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> 
wrote:

> Peter L. Peres wrote:
>> Try tapping F1 repeatedly while you boot ? Or hold a key down (any key)
>> and reboot. This should stop the boot process and ask about the stuck
>> keyboard, maybe with an option to edit the bios (could be F1 to continue
>> F2 to edit).
>
> Keyboard not found.  Press any key to continue.  ;-)
>
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