Windows 10: Can access BIOS, but on startup my monitors can't find any signal

I had a Windows update notification before bed last night, so I updated and went to bed. After work I get home and the computer is on but there is no signal to the monitors. I restart by holding the power button til it turns off, and on restart at the gigabyte screen I noticed it said attempting repair, or something along those lines. Come back a few minutes later and the same thing. nothing on the monitors. Repeat and this time get to a windows troubleshoot screen and attempt to reset to previous pointforgive my ludditism please. It performs the reset and displays the progress during the pr

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access BIOS settings in Win 10

I have an 8-year old computer running Win 10. I need to access the BIOS settings. It used to be the holding down the F2 key during startup would bring up the BIOS screen in Windows computers. But this no longer works. A web article listed a complicated
series of steps leading to a reboot . . . but still no access to BIOS. Any suggestions?

 

Unable to access BIOS at startup

I am converting from Windows 7 Pro to Windows 10 Pro, using a clean new disk and a new licence. I am having problems with a recent W 10 update, that introduced a problem with a 'PCI Data Acquisition and Signal Processing Controller - Driver'. (See another thread). In Windows 7 this device does not exist and the error did not appear at every startup of W 10 as it does now.

I have downloaded Panasonic's .CAB file for Windows 10, but can't get it installed.

I guess that as it's updating Windows files, it needs the laptop to re-boot and install the changes before returning to run Windows - just like a Windows update. I've found information suggesting accessing the BIOS and selecting an option, however I am unable to access BIOS at startup, using the normal <F2> key. I found this:-

However the Run dialog did not work. Also following the tutorials link has a problem as the 'Advanced Options' UEFI option is not provided. I have tried a few other suggestions found on-line but all fail.

One reported, "A number of users have complained that for some reason they can’t access BIOS on Windows 7 and Windows 10 operating systems. This seems to be a problem that arises on dual GPU PCs."

My laptop, a Panasonic Toughbook CF-31Mk3, has dual GPUs, an AMD Radeon HD7750M and an Intel HD Graphics 4000. Incidentally, the Panasonic application to select a GPU for every program is missing from the standard Windows installation. I am hopping that the .CAB file will address this and other similar problems.

Running Version 1909 build 18363.535.

So are there any other ways of accessing the BIOS/UEFI?

 

Can't get GPU-Z to start with Windows 8.1 startup

I'm not sure how to do that. Could you list the steps for a noob?