What bios is it? Award? AMI? Pheonix? if you cannot tell from the POST
check the chip on the motherboard...

Gateway has a pretty good support site, have you tried to find a
Manual there? try the following link:
http://www.gateway.com/support/product/components/index.shtml

 -munir

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Scott Raun wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:40:47PM +0000, Shawn wrote:
> > It has 32MB ram, it's a P120 old gateway desktop.  For some reason,
> > can't get into the bios either to set the HW date.  Tried, F1, F2, del,
> > space all to no avail.  Just remembered that.
>
> Try all the variations on {Ctl|Alt|Shift} {Enter|S} at a command
> prompt.  Some BIOS intercept that keystroke set after boot to enter
> setup.
>
>