Windows 10: Bios

Hi,

In case Windows fails to load, can you still enter BIOS in order to change boot device priority etc. Yes or no.
Thanx.

Edwin

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BIOS

Is there an easier way to do this? I bought my computer through HSN. They could not help me.

 

BIOS

You need to contact the HP support to check if there is any newer version of BIOS available.

 

Yes Bios comes well before the load Operating system.

 

The OS has nothing to do with the ability to enter the BIOS. You could in fact enter he BIOS even if the hard drive was physically removed.

 

Just to avoid any possible problems, before I attempted to upgrade to Windows 10, I made sure my systems were upgraded to the latest bios available.

But you can access the bios with no discs attached to the computer. An operating system is not necessary to access bios.

 

In my Windows 10 computer. Pressing F8 or "Delete key" on STARTUP does NOTHING.
So how do I enter BIOS if Windows does not load?

 

Either the wrong key press i.e F2 or it's a UEFI secure boot so you may have to turn off fast start up in power options. My MSI motherboard has this.

 

Not all the same , on my Intel NUC it's F2. Google " your computer/ motherboard + bios " should bring it up

 

You are correct F2 does access BIOS. Maybe I am wrong but I thought BIOS allowed me to access SAFE MODE and SAFE MODE WITH NETWORKING.
I did not see either of these in my BIOS. Any idea how I can find those items in Windows 10 ?

 

Easiest way.




or boot off your W10 installation media and get to it from there.

There are various ways. https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2...dows-10-a.html

 

It wasn't a BIOS function.

In older versions of Windows, F8 allowed you to choose to boot in safe mode. I don't recall the last Windows version that supported it, but it was gone in 8. Microsoft didn't bring it back in 10.

I believe that one of the ways of getting into safe mode is to do an abnormal shutdown (hold the power button down until the machine shuts down). You may have to do that several times until it gives you the option. (Haven't done that yet myself in 10.)

 

Using F* to enter Safe Mode worked reasonably well on older systems. But many newer computers boot so quickly that there was little opportunity to press it. So other options were developed. This article explains how they work:
http://www.howtogeek.com/107511/how-...-the-easy-way/

The BIOS and OS are separate entities and neither has any real knowledge of the other. The BIOS knows nothing of Safe Mode.