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Samsung NP300E5C - Locked out of BIOS
Hello.
I had big trouble yesterday while clean installing w10 on this laptop. It came with Windows 8.1
The issue I am having is that I cannot manually enter BIOS (Tried all keys, although it seems it's F2). The only way I can enter BIOS is to invoke it through Windows (UEFI).
Tried enabling/disabling Secure Boot. Resetting BIOS to its defaults. Nothing. The only way of accessing BIOS is through Windows.
To make things worse I had to physically remove the hard disk and reformat it with an external enclosure, because windows installation went bad and because I couldn't access BIOS, booting from usb was impossible.
What a shitty UEFI BIOS implementation.