Access bios

I am sorry to have to ask this, as it’s so basic

but I am stuck, I want to access my PCs Bios

I used to have a boot menu where where I could press DEL and access the bios, this menu no longer appears at boot up, need to get this working again.

i tried holding shift down when when restarting used troubleshooting to access uefi settings but that didn’t work.

just need some help please, I used the bcedit command in Cmd to turn it on but nothing.

can someone please help me

thanks

Shut the computer fully down then press the I|O button followed immediately repetitively pressing the Del or F2 key even though the display of which key to be pressed doesn't show. The choice menu or the note on the screen can be suppressed in some BIOSes, supposedly allows a faster start up but I've never been OCD about the short amount of time saved.

Used to be back in the IDE [now PATA] HDDs when the computers started getting faster than the spinup of the disks that we'd set the BIOS to show the whole startup process, gave extra time for the drive.

Sometimes attempting to access the bios can be a PITA while blindly banging on keys with hopes that Windows doesn't start. It's even more challenging with newer & faster PCs.

I prefer to use the Command Line approach.

From an elevated Command Prompt, enter or copy & paste the following;

Code:

shutdown /s /fw /t 00

PS; save & close all before using this, the 00 = no delay

PPS; This Command line will shutdown your PC and the next startup will load the bios/UEFI settings.




OOPs, that CLI may not work on a Legacy bios PC.

Another option is to disable Fast Startup which kills the slight boot delay allowing you to hit F2 or del.

I'm still looking for Brink's tutorial.

Berton said:

Shut the computer fully down then press the I|O button followed immediately repetitively pressing the Del or F2 key even though the display of which key to be pressed doesn't show. The choice menu or the note on the screen can be suppressed in some BIOSes, supposedly allows a faster start up but I've never been OCD about the short amount of time saved.




Used to be back in the IDE [now PATA] HDDs when the computers started getting faster than the spinup of the disks that we'd set the BIOS to show the whole startup process, gave extra time for the drive.

Just started up normally

reddwarf4ever said:

Just started up normally

I'd suspicion an issue with the keyboard such as needing to blow out any foreign material such as fine hairs from pets or cookie crumbs, etc., with canned air such as DustOff. Some Notebooks will recognize a USB wired keyboard.

W10 Tweaker said:

Sometimes attempting to access the bios can be a PITA while blindly banging on keys with hopes that Windows doesn't start. It's even more challenging with newer & faster PCs.

I prefer to use the Command Line approach.

From an elevated Command Prompt, enter or copy & paste the following;

Code:

shutdown /s /fw /t 00

PS; save & close all before using this, the 00 = no delay

PPS; This Command line will shutdown your PC and the next startup will load the bios/UEFI settings.




OOPs, that CLI may not work on a Legacy bios PC.

Another option is to disable Fast Startup which kills the slight boot delay allowing you to hit F2 or del.

I'm still looking for Brink's tutorial.

Just got a blank screen

reddwarf4ever said:

Just got a blank screen

That's odd, it should have shutdown your PC, at the least.

Try this one, it saves a manual restart.


From an elevated Command Prompt, type or copy & paste the following;

Code:

shutdown /f /r /fw /t 00

/f - force running applications to close w/o warning
/r - restart
/fw - causes next boot to go to the firmware user interface UEFI
/t - delay time
00 - time in seconds


I successfully tested this & the previous Command Line on my MSI laptop with UEFI. If you choose to type these commands be sure to leave a space before the / and the 00.

W10 Tweaker said:

That's odd, it should have shutdown your PC, at the least.

Try this one, it saves a manual restart.


From an elevated Command Prompt, type or copy & paste the following;

Code:

shutdown /f /r /fw /t 00

/f - force running applications to close w/o warning
/r - restart
/fw - causes next boot to go to the firmware user interface UEFI
/t - delay time
00 - time in seconds


I successfully tested this & the previous Command Line on my MSI laptop with UEFI. If you choose to type these commands be sure to leave a space before the / and the 00.

It did restart, but not with a bios option, just want to restore the option that’s usually at the bottom end the screen, Del Bios etc etc

I'm not certain why this doesn't function correctly on your PC.


From an elevated Command Prompt, please type or copy & paste the following & post results;

Code:

powercfg /a