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Basically around the 2000s we had a WinXP computer and each time I wanted to use it, either my mom or my dad had to turn it on. However they had to strike the key to enter the BIOS. Everytime when booting the PC. Then they would exit the BIOS and so Windows XP would boot normally.

Do you guys know if your parents also did that and why?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure! However, it's possible the coin cell that keeps the BIOS settings was removed or dead. This forces the BIOS into default configuration on boot, which may have caused a boot failure if you needed some specific hardware configuration set in BIOS.

Maybe they used it as a way to control computer access, but it seems more likely that they just didn't get around to replacing the coin cell :D

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My mom would have to come in and put a password into the BIOS to boot up when I got in trouble when I was younger.

I was also punished by being made to go play outside with the neighborhood kids lol.

They wouldn't stop me from reading, and if they grounded me I'd just be like whatever, I have three new books from the library lol.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That sounds... very familiar. I got through an alarming number of books in childhood through similar mechanisms.