[QUOTE=ittiandro;2382613]Kari,

I have the same problem as of today. My PC boots directly into Windows 10, ignoring the Bios boot sequence with the CD/DVD drive set before the HDD . Usually,...

[QUOTE=SIW2;2443556]possibly.

I dont know where you are. There are other possibilities.

I live in Sweden. You are right, we do not know if it really is the motherboard that´s the faulty part....

@ SIW2 I´ll look into it. The problem is that in my country there are for some reason almost no HB used/refurbished motherboadrds on sale, there´s a lot of used or refurbished Asus, but that does...

[QUOTE=Ben Myers;2440872]A single beep with no error on the monitor can be a memory problem. Unplug the computer, remove the case, observe static electricity precautions, then remove and reseat the...

Well, there seems to be a solution, albeit not The desired one😕A friend I mentioned AT The beginning recommended me as The last resource to disconnet The CMOS battery for about 10 seconds, then...

@ Ghot and dalchina: Thanks, made me laugh -:) , however, rather than shooting at the monitor (the monitor works fine) better to shoot at the desktop -:). I am now in two minds- 1. keep the desktop...

[QUOTE=Ben Myers;2440600]Try holding down a key during power up.
Tried that several times with various keys, unfortunately it does not help either. An acquintance of my wife´s adviced to change the...

@ dalchina Yes, the machine is from the beginning of 2014, but the nerd put in a lot of new parts, (among other things expanding memory to 16GB, putting in a HDD twice the capacity of the original...

@ everybode on this therad. While I appreciate your kind efforts to help, I start feeling bad about taking a lot of your time and there´s no solution so far.
I tried to phone HP in my country, was...

@ dalchina again. Sorry, there is an ESC button, I downloaded the diagram for this gaming keyboard, there is the ESC button (only at slightly different position , and also there are the F buttons), ...

@ dalchina I have just connected the keyboard that came with my desktop. It is a sort of simple, apparently *gaming* keyborad, no F 1 to 12 keys and what is more disturbing, no ESC key! So it may be...

@ Ghot. Do you mean a BOOT menu that can be accessed via WIN10? As I mentioned at the beginning of this thread, I´m new (since 5 days) to WIN10 and am still not fully familiar with amany of its...

@ dalchina Thanks, I followed the tutorial in the link you provided, but again, failure. Turned the computer off, waited for about 8 seconds just to be sure, pressed the power button and immediately...

@ Bree and @ Ghot: Thanks again. It seems that there´s really a glitch somewhere. Diasabled the fast start (via control panel) There´s not much difference, be it a cold start or a restart, (tried...

@ Ghot. Thanks for the fast advice. I suspect now that there is a glitch somewhere. Have tried pusing all the various keys at start/restatr that you mention in order to get to BIOS, but to no avail....

First, I´d like to state that I´m an aged granddad (almost grandgranddad) and my previous computer literacy (have used WIN since WIN3) is quite tarnished now. Moreover, I had been using WIN7 for 12...

I have a HP desktop, Compaq 8200 Elite SFF. Tried to install WIN10, however, I get the message that I have to uninstall HP Protect Tools Security Manager first, before proceeding with WIN10...