I believe there is an option to boot to USB in advanced startup. Just hold the shift key down and press restart. I believe one of the options is boot from a device.
That's also one of the options from Kari's command prompt suggestion.
It sounds like many of these posts assume that I'm able to boot into Windows, which I'm very aware of. Please correct me if this assumption is incorrect. Again, I need to be able to get into the Bios from a cold restart. Or, when you say "restart" are you talking about the restart button on my computer case?
At the time, no I was not able to get to the logon screen at all. I kept getting a message telling me to insert or connect a bootable device, but even my rescue disk would not boot. Again, I had to find the "0" SATA socket and manually connect my SSD drive to it. All is well now that I did this, but I would still like to get into my Bios (like I used to be able to do) after a failed boot. I'm able to see a Gigabyte window telling me to press the "delete" key to enter the Bios or the "F12" key to get into the boot order menu, but pressing these keys on my keyboard no longer work during the initial boot process.
Instead of booting into Recovery. Try the command below, it should boot straight into UEFI Firmware:
shutdown /r /fw /t 00
Hi,
Is your USB keyboard activated at POST ? If it isn't quickly pull the USB connector then reconnect it and try tapping DEL or F12.I'm able to see a Gigabyte window telling me to press the "delete" key to enter the Bios or the "F12" key to get into the boot order menu, but pressing these keys on my keyboard no longer work during the initial boot process.
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