Enter The BIOS On Any PC Access Keys by Manufacturer
Enter The BIOS On Any PC Access Keys by Manufacturer
Enter The BIOS On Any PC Access Keys by Manufacturer
When you first power-on a computer, it goes through a very quick POST (power
on self test). If you can hit the correct hotkey before the POST is completed (or
hold it down as you hit the power button), you will get into the BIOS menu.
However, some computers go through POST so fast that they don't recognize
input from the keyboard in time for you to a hit key. For those, skip to method
#2 below.
ASRock: F2 or DEL
ASUS: F2 for all PCs, F2 or DEL for Motherboards
Acer: F2 or DEL
Dell: F2 or F12
ECS: DEL
Gigabyte / Aorus: F2 or DEL
HP: F10
Lenovo (Consumer Laptops): F2 or Fn + F2
Lenovo (Desktops): F1
Lenovo (ThinkPads): Enter then F1.
MSI: DEL for motherboards and PCs
Microsoft Surface Tablets: Press and hold volume up button.
Origin PC: F2
Samsung: F2
Toshiba: F2
Zotac: DEL
5. Click Troubleshoot.
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However, the biggest problems occur when the system POSTs too fast for you to
hit a key and then Windows or Linux tries to boot and fails. I've had this problem
when I had a missing or corrupted bootloader, I got the Windows splash screen
and then a blue screen of death.
To force the BIOS to appear under these circumstances, you can try using an
emergency boot disk, provided that you can either select a boot device at
startup or your computer has set an external USB drive as a higher boot priority
than its internal storage drive(s).
You can use a Windows 10 install disk as an emergency boot disk. Once the USB
boots, you need to click "Repair your computer" instead of install and then click
Troubleshoot -> UEFI Firmware Settings -> Restart.
Finally, if you can't boot off of an emergency disk, you can try to cause a system
halting error that would prevent your computer from attempting to boot off of
its internal drives. Then, you'll be given the option to enter the BIOS menu.
Bottom Line
Whatever method you use to access your BIOS, be careful when making changes
to your settings there. You could end up disabling key components.