I believe you hold down Esc as you power up the laptop and then follow the 
instructions.
Terry

"***** charles" <me@mine.com> wrote in message 
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>I got a satelite a55 s1065 and I need to change
> the boot order so I can use the restote cd.  the
> cmos has a passwof which I know, but as soon
> as I type it in, it starts booting to the internal hd.
> I have tried f1 f2 del and other combinations but
> I still haven't been able to get into the cmos.
> any ideas?
>
> thanks,
> charles
>
>