Windows 10: I held the F8 key while my laptop was booting up trying to get it into safe mode. Now it...

My laptop had a trojan virus and windows defender wasn't removing it. So I was going into safe mode by pressing f8 while the laptop was restarting. Now it wont boot up at all. The laptop was around half battery when it shut down.I have a Lenovo ThinkPad T430 Running on windows 10. * Moved from Community Center

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Does F8 key still work to boot into Safe Mode?

It was Option Two, step 4 (holding shift key while pressing restart) that worked.

 

Safe Mode Start F8

I've lately encountered a puzzling situation with safe mode start using the F8 key.

Bluntly, the F8 key press during boot (when the motherboard logo, BIOS entry key notice etc is displayed, and after) has been in-effective. I've tried several times pressing the key earlier in the boot cycle (per help), substituted a brand new keyboard,
and tried just holding the F8 key down during that part of the cycle: with no evident effect using either keyboard - the PC boots to windows normally.

It's highly unlikely that both keyboards are broken with the same key, and when booted using Word, pressing F8 causes the next text character to be selected. On both keyboards, the DEL key during motherboard logo display boot gets me into the BIOS. So
it's unlikely it is a keyboard issue.

When booted, I can cause a safe mode boot at the next re-start using the msconfig /boot options, so the PC will do a safe mode boot, and the safe mode message at top RH corner of the display is evident in these boots.

It looks very likely that an F8 key signal is being ignored at windows startup. And an F8 safe mode boot has been a life-saver in the past when driver updates went sour and a safe start before the OS loads is essential, so I'm very interested in resolving
this. An experienced colleague has suggested that it may be some sort of timer setting that's simply too fast for keyboard sensing: but holding the key down should (??) be sensed. So, I am perplexed and out of ideas of cause and fix.

Help.

 

Does F8 key still work to boot into Safe Mode?


I ran into a problem installing Win10 on my laptop (I posted about it here). I got into an endless reboot cycle where Win would go to desktop but no taskbar/apps worked and a popup message left me no choice but to reboot again. I needed to get to Safe Mode to fix this. I had a USB stick with the Win10 install files on it, but no way to boot to it.

I tried repeatedly pressing F8 key from BIO screen to Windows start, but could not get into Safe Mode. F8 and Shift+F8 didn't work (nor did F6). It seemed that mu USB keyboard was not being recognized during the boot up process (is this possible?).

so, I could get to desktop but no further, however I was getting to the login screen where there is a icon to shutdown or restart. I read here that holding the Shift key while selecting Restart would boot into Safe Mode. That worked!

So does F8 no longer work during boot up? Or is my keyboard not being recognized until after Windows loads?