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Surely even with fast boot on you can still access the bios from a cold start (not a restart) by pressing F12 or DEL or whatever your mobo requires? I can anyway.
Surely even with fast boot on you can still access the bios from a cold start (not a restart) by pressing F12 or DEL or whatever your mobo requires? I can anyway.
Shut down pc/laptop. press and hold down f2. Restart pc/laptop while still holding f2 down, release when you see bios. enjoy.
note: IMPORTANT. DON'T BE REFLASHING THE BIOS FOR THIS. warned.
If it's a laptop, power down, remove the battery, unplug the power pack, press and hold the power button for say 10 seconds. Then plug everything back in and power up, pressing your BIOS access key. If it's a desktop PC it's the same only no battery to remove. This should kill what ever hibernation state your in and give you an actual cold boot.
I've been having trouble with restart as well from inside the Windows environment. Weirdly enough, when I do a cold start F12 does nothing - no option to do so even presents itself. However, if I restart from the Windows login screen it does actually restart and I can F12 from there.
Don't confuse the BIOS Fast Boot option with Windows Fast Startup option. Two totally different things, you can't turn off Windows Fast Startup from the BIOS. One issue with it is, it puts the PC in a hybrid sleep mode instead of a complete shutdown. Coming out of this mode bypasses the option to enter the BIOS. For a lot of PC's it does anyway. It's been an issue for me so I turn it off. I have an SSD so its not going to speed thing up to where it would be noticeable anyway. What rezpower posted is how you turn it off in Windows. It won't work though if you can't actually boot into windows.
I placed two .bat files on my desktop. One to completely shutdown the pc, on to take advantage of the hybrid shutdown. Now if I want to boot into my Linux OS I use the .bat for complete shutdown, otherwise I chose the hybrid shutdown one.
Last edited by altae; 14 Aug 2015 at 07:26.