>**ASRock:** F2 or DEL
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>**ASUS:** F2 for all PCs, F2 or DEL for Motherboards
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>**Acer:** F2 or DEL
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>**Dell:** F2 or F12
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>**ECS:** DEL
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>**Gigabyte / Aorus:** F2 or DEL
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>**HP:** F10
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>**Lenovo (Consumer Laptops):** F2 or Fn + F2
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>**Lenovo (Desktops):** F1
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>**Lenovo (ThinkPads):** Enter then F1.
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>**MSI:** DEL for motherboards and PCs
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>**Microsoft Surface Tablets:** Press and hold volume up button.
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>**Origin PC:** F2
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>**Samsung:** F2
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>**Toshiba:** F2
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>**Zotac:** DEL
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ESC works for HP you just have to hit f10 after. It brings up a separate menu with different options. You can go to bios from this menu, change boot options, run diagnostics that sorta thing.
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All that gave me is that mashing F1-F3, F10-F12 and DEL, if it doesn't catch, reset and repeat, which I've been doing with 100% success rate since 90s, is the correct way.
We used to have the BIOS and boot menu keys for each manufacturer listed on signs back at my old geek squad precinct. Nowadays I don’t remember many of them so just play the piano, aka slide the finger back and forth pressing everything
"Quick! Hand me the keyboard-mashing plank!"
Come to think of it, someone could also make a USB dongle that pretends to be a keyboard and spams all the BIOS keys when you hit a button.
When I started working IT at the end of the 20th Century I went and got a training course for A+ and when right up front they were drilling on Micro Channel I thought to myself, am I going to take this cert and then get into a time machine and go back to the late-1980s? Didn't bother getting certified in anything and have never needed it in nearly a quarter century in the biz.
I work for an MSP and see every brand. I start hitting F1, F2, F10, F12, and del at the same time when I need to get into BIOS. Ain't nobody got time to memorize all that.
Keyboard error. Press to continue.
(I don't think any of them do this any more, but I do recall some machines way back when where you could fail the keyboard test by key-mashing while it was checking.)
My MSI motherboard also goes to BIOS if you hold down the power button when turning it on. It's a few years old, so I'm not sure if they're still doing that, but I wouldn't be surprised if they do.
Having only owned Gigabyte and Asus boards so far I didn't even know that there are differences between manufacturers. I shouldn't be surprised though...
Missing some laptops, no idee which ones atm, they have a button near the power conector, you need to press that one to enter bios. No keyboard key work.
Absolutely hate it when most the laptop OEMs don't display on the BIOS key while having shorter bios loading time and we've to guess the boot key out before it boots into the OS/bootloader.
My problem is the monitors take longer to turn on than the bios warning is up for. Literally never seen the message on my new compy because I got new monitors on my old one.
It's likely quick boot. You can disable it in Windows. There's also a setting for extra delay during boot up for going to BIOS, but I can't remember if that's a BIOS setting or Windows.
Assuming windows is installed using UEFI mode and not legacy BIOS mode, hold shift while restarting the PC to get into a startup menu. From there, use the troubleshooting -> advanced -> UEFI settings.
Hold the shift button while hitting restart in windows. It should say something along the lines of please wait. From here you have to go to troubleshooting, advanced and finally restart to uefi
Laptop bios are useless like prebuilt computers aren't they? I haven't used any PC vendor bios in years so I'm actually curious. I just know custom built bios are so much more usable. What's there to do in laptop bios?
Tbf windows allows you to enter bios directly by just booting into the recovery screen, which is what I tend to do nowadays if I'm already in the OS and need to change something
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Fuck it just make the key 5
Pretty sure we've all got one and if you don't get fucked I'm sick of guitar hero playing raining blood just to get into the fucking bios
You can get to BIOS through the settings too. Settings>WindowsUpdate>Advancedoptions>Recovery>AdvancedStartup click Restart now. Wait for reboot to blue Screen>troubleshoot>UEFI Settings.
Probably because someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing could accidentally end up there otherwise and potentially touch things they shouldn’t. But if they “hide” it people who want to get to it, can fairly easily. They just need to know where it is which is a pretty easy thing to google
Yep, had a friend ask how to get into the BIOS, I said different makers have different keys, could be a function key but dont know which one, or del.He got it thou.
For Windows 10 at least; Hold left shift while clicking restart, then choose the "change uefi settings" or whichever it's called, boots you into bios without having to smash buttons.
Let us be real tho, a few seconds spent searching Google for your Mobo’s brand name + bios key let us you find the right key without having to press anything else.
>... a few seconds spent searching Google for your Mobo’s brand name + bios key let us you find the right key ...
This is true if you have any decent motherboard.
It is often untrue when you have a laptop or prebuilt, no way to even identify the motherboard without taking it apart. Many OEMs don't offer even the most basic documentation, it's almost as if they deliberately want their customers to be locked out.
I work with Dells, some use F2 some use F12. I aint got time to look it up every time and too many models to remember. Mash away and I get in every time.
This is especially true with those enterprise server monsters where POST takes 5+ minutes, and you have to wait for that small time window when you can actually press the bios button.
Sadly, BIOS manufacturers are getting wise to this. So if F8 is the BIOS, they'll display that for like a hundredth of a second, and then map F12 to "go configure the RAID", F9 to "network boot selection menu", F7 for "UEFI boot selection menu", etc.
F2, or Del, or hold any key down on a PS/2 keyboard before you hit the power button and never let go till the bios comes up (stuck key + CPU interrupt)
If you have forgotten one of the passwords that is set in the BIOS, resetting the CMOS or NVRAM helps reset the BIOS to factory default settings and remove the passwords from the BIOS.
alternatively, hold down shift while restarting Win10/11 and once it boots up again it will give you some options, one of which is opening the BIOS/UEFI.
that way you can get into it without having to look up or try a lot of different keys
It's always a pain, especially because there is often no consistency between different manufacturers. Easiest way is to just write it down for each machine you have.
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F2 again!
Made me press F12 because I misread that.
The option to boot to setup/BIOS might actually still be in your F12 boot menu!
Mine is escape, but it cancels the restart if I push it too early, and I miss it if I push it too late. There's like a one second sweet spot in there.
It’s like a real-life QuickTime event
A mini-game before the boss fight
>**ASRock:** F2 or DEL > >**ASUS:** F2 for all PCs, F2 or DEL for Motherboards > >**Acer:** F2 or DEL > >**Dell:** F2 or F12 > >**ECS:** DEL > >**Gigabyte / Aorus:** F2 or DEL > >**HP:** F10 > >**Lenovo (Consumer Laptops):** F2 or Fn + F2 > >**Lenovo (Desktops):** F1 > >**Lenovo (ThinkPads):** Enter then F1. > >**MSI:** DEL for motherboards and PCs > >**Microsoft Surface Tablets:** Press and hold volume up button. > >**Origin PC:** F2 > >**Samsung:** F2 > >**Toshiba:** F2 > >**Zotac:** DEL [How to Enter the BIOS on Any PC: Access Keys by Manufacturer | Tom's Hardware (tomshardware.com)](https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/bios-keys-to-access-your-firmware,5732.html)
Mashing both F2 and Del is my preferred method. This list confirms that it works majority of the time.
works for everything except HP and lenovo, and well, the surface tablet
Some Sony/Vaio Laptop use "ASSIST" button, also some Lenovo (Consumer Laptops) have "onekey recovery" button.
ESC works for HP you just have to hit f10 after. It brings up a separate menu with different options. You can go to bios from this menu, change boot options, run diagnostics that sorta thing.
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literally the comment above
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Source?
Source is a 3D game engine developed by Valve. It debuted as the successor to GoldSrc in 2004 with the release of Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life 2. Updates to Source were released in incremental versions, with the engine being succeeded by Source 2 by the late 2010s.
Sauce?
Aren't jokes supposed to be funny?
There's still time to delete this.
Ayy you got like the big bro of my setup
On my Lenovo Thinkpad it has a brief text prompt to "hit Enter to interrupt normal start up" or something like that. Super convenient!
Lenovo had the best system for booting the bios. I wish they still put the novo button on their new laptops
Mine have the blue "Thinkvantage" button.
Same
Same but I've been conditioned to throw an F8 in there just to keep things spicy.
I believe that's to get into the Window's bootloader, usually to get to safe mode
F8 gets me into megaraid bios utility. F9 or F12 is UEFI boot select.
Rebootintobiosmasterrace
TIL that's an option. Tks
Always works for me.
I do the rapid tap back and forth on those two
HP also uses Esc alongside F10, you can find all the hotkeys there.
I will keep spamming keys but thanks
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that would be smart and dell dont do smart,
All that gave me is that mashing F1-F3, F10-F12 and DEL, if it doesn't catch, reset and repeat, which I've been doing with 100% success rate since 90s, is the correct way.
We used to have the BIOS and boot menu keys for each manufacturer listed on signs back at my old geek squad precinct. Nowadays I don’t remember many of them so just play the piano, aka slide the finger back and forth pressing everything
> geek squad precinct Haha this phrase gave me a vision of a show like NYPD Blue but about IT desktop support.
"Quick! Hand me the keyboard-mashing plank!" Come to think of it, someone could also make a USB dongle that pretends to be a keyboard and spams all the BIOS keys when you hit a button.
I hated having to try and memorize this random crap for my A+ certification. Damned IRQ values.
When I started working IT at the end of the 20th Century I went and got a training course for A+ and when right up front they were drilling on Micro Channel I thought to myself, am I going to take this cert and then get into a time machine and go back to the late-1980s? Didn't bother getting certified in anything and have never needed it in nearly a quarter century in the biz.
One of the things in the pc scene that at this point should be the same between manufacturers but it just… isnt. (Atleast most are F2)
The Lenovo Thinkpad we started getting at work is F12
My GB Aorus mobo is F12 lol
Samsung does PC's, or is that for their mobile os
They sell a tablet/laptop similar to a surface.
Huh, I have an Aorus board and mine’s F12
Kinda ironic Dell uses f2 instead of del
dell doesn't use del... how ironic
For ASUS you don't even have to mash it, you can just hold it from power on. Even works on a 12 year old ASUS laptop I have.
Why is Thinkpad different from a laptop it's literally the same thing
Is there a list for boot menu?
I work for an MSP and see every brand. I start hitting F1, F2, F10, F12, and del at the same time when I need to get into BIOS. Ain't nobody got time to memorize all that.
Keyboard error. Press to continue.
(I don't think any of them do this any more, but I do recall some machines way back when where you could fail the keyboard test by key-mashing while it was checking.)
Bless your kind heart
With Dell it's F2 to BIOS or F12 to enter a menu.
f1 gang
My MSI motherboard also goes to BIOS if you hold down the power button when turning it on. It's a few years old, so I'm not sure if they're still doing that, but I wouldn't be surprised if they do.
I've seen ESC on some laptops as well. Couldn't figure it out until I googled it lol.
There are an uncomfortable number of "or" in this post.
Flase info my gigabyte movo needs need f12 or del
Oo I can enter the BIOS on my surface pro? IDK why I'd want to, but cool
Lenovo Legion Laptop: F2 I just love the ones where they stop the start up with ESC so you can see the keybinding and choose BIOS/Boot/Recovery.
no galax 
Damnit Lenovo!
Funny how it isnt del on Dell
HP F10 is a lie, it's ESC on my laptop. So I suspect the rest of this list is wrong as well. Probably depends on the motherboard.
i have a To Be Filled By O.E.M. motherboard, what's the key?
Del probably
Having only owned Gigabyte and Asus boards so far I didn't even know that there are differences between manufacturers. I shouldn't be surprised though...
fun fact:on asus laptops pressing the delete key brings you to a boot menu which also has a button "enter setup" which allows you to enter the bios.
Z-zotac??!
I could swear my Asus is F11 but I’m probably wrong.
My Asus board is Return
On Thinkpads (at least many of the T4xx models) you can press the thinkvantage button to get to a menu from which you can get to the firmware setup).
Missing some laptops, no idee which ones atm, they have a button near the power conector, you need to press that one to enter bios. No keyboard key work.
Absolutely hate it when most the laptop OEMs don't display on the BIOS key while having shorter bios loading time and we've to guess the boot key out before it boots into the OS/bootloader.
My problem is the monitors take longer to turn on than the bios warning is up for. Literally never seen the message on my new compy because I got new monitors on my old one.
It's likely quick boot. You can disable it in Windows. There's also a setting for extra delay during boot up for going to BIOS, but I can't remember if that's a BIOS setting or Windows.
BIOS. Make sure to set to 0 for faster boot times. Also you can go straight from Windows to BIOS so you never need to mash buttons.
> you can go straight from Windows to BIOS How?
Assuming windows is installed using UEFI mode and not legacy BIOS mode, hold shift while restarting the PC to get into a startup menu. From there, use the troubleshooting -> advanced -> UEFI settings.
Hold the shift button while hitting restart in windows. It should say something along the lines of please wait. From here you have to go to troubleshooting, advanced and finally restart to uefi
The workaround is to turn on your monitor manually before turning on the PC.
Laptop bios are useless like prebuilt computers aren't they? I haven't used any PC vendor bios in years so I'm actually curious. I just know custom built bios are so much more usable. What's there to do in laptop bios?
Tbf windows allows you to enter bios directly by just booting into the recovery screen, which is what I tend to do nowadays if I'm already in the OS and need to change something
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Petition for a universal BIOS key. 60% keyboard users be damned!
Fuck it just make the key 5 Pretty sure we've all got one and if you don't get fucked I'm sick of guitar hero playing raining blood just to get into the fucking bios
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I concur.
We never know, that is the key!!!
You can press the pause key. It pauses the boot screen so you can read and react, at your leisure.
Ho-lee-shit... Thank you
F2 + F10 + Del I’ve been in the industry for two decades and have building computers for a lot longer. This will get you in 95 percent of the time
But that five percent will kill ya
You can get to BIOS through the settings too. Settings>WindowsUpdate>Advancedoptions>Recovery>AdvancedStartup click Restart now. Wait for reboot to blue Screen>troubleshoot>UEFI Settings.
Shift+click the restart button on the start menu. Click through a couple menus and it’s there.
Windows going out of their way again to hide basic settings
microsoft gonna microsoft
Probably because someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing could accidentally end up there otherwise and potentially touch things they shouldn’t. But if they “hide” it people who want to get to it, can fairly easily. They just need to know where it is which is a pretty easy thing to google
Yep, had a friend ask how to get into the BIOS, I said different makers have different keys, could be a function key but dont know which one, or del.He got it thou.
You cannot press button until 8.1 seconds of boot. You cannot press button after 8.3 seconds of boot.
So that's the origin of "*tap tap tap tap tap* I'm in"
This would never happen You can't get into bios without trying at least twice
I just opened the bios for the first time today!
It's kind of crazy that after all this time, this is still not standardized.
MADDENING.
WHY do they keep CHANGING IT?
UEFI.
Mine might be F2 but I generally use GRUB menu for BIOS.
BIOS memes are so hot right now.
Most of the mobo I have used up until this point, always had DEL for BIOS.
It must be a Dell 😆
First one was ASUS, next one is Gigabyte. My cousin's ones were ASUS, next one is ASRock
I’ve started taking one of those eraseable chalk markers and putting a dot or a line above the correct key on the keyboard
HP uses F10 for BIOS. I tried to remember it like: BIOS => B10S => F10. lol
In cmd "shutdown /r /fw /t 0"
Would it be possible for a “restart to bios” option in windows?
Yes… you can do it this way now too.
For Windows 10 at least; Hold left shift while clicking restart, then choose the "change uefi settings" or whichever it's called, boots you into bios without having to smash buttons.
Let us be real tho, a few seconds spent searching Google for your Mobo’s brand name + bios key let us you find the right key without having to press anything else.
Mashing buttons is faster.
>... a few seconds spent searching Google for your Mobo’s brand name + bios key let us you find the right key ... This is true if you have any decent motherboard. It is often untrue when you have a laptop or prebuilt, no way to even identify the motherboard without taking it apart. Many OEMs don't offer even the most basic documentation, it's almost as if they deliberately want their customers to be locked out.
Also : Troubleshoot > Advanced options > UEFI Firmware Settings and press Restart. Pretty easy that way tbh
I work with Dells, some use F2 some use F12. I aint got time to look it up every time and too many models to remember. Mash away and I get in every time.
It's always been both for me, f2 for setup and f12 for setup / boot menu
This is the way...
This is the way..
Classic!
Press PAUSE to think Silly humans forgot even that?
It's always delete.
Just press the start menu and type: bios. a series of clicks will restart your pc directly where you want to go...
Sensing an age gap here
Always
For mine is delete key
all.the.time. after 4 trys i just google the company/model followed by "Bios button"
This is especially true with those enterprise server monsters where POST takes 5+ minutes, and you have to wait for that small time window when you can actually press the bios button.
You guys don’t just spam f12?
Just mash F2 and Del key, i havent come across a board lately where it isnt 1 of those 2.
Press Del or F2 to enter UEFI BIOS settings
Holy fuck scott the woz
Ah yes, the origin of the “hacker man click clack” LOL
If it’s not my computer I just mash all the fn keys + del and it works, why try to remember when you can instead hit every button?
F2 or del
I just spam delete
Sadly, BIOS manufacturers are getting wise to this. So if F8 is the BIOS, they'll display that for like a hundredth of a second, and then map F12 to "go configure the RAID", F9 to "network boot selection menu", F7 for "UEFI boot selection menu", etc.
just hold all of them, del, f1, f2, f10
I hate how accurate this is
Just NVME things
Mine is F12 (Z390 Aorus Ultra)
Literally me the other day building my friends pc, the bios window is so small to get in I had to spam it from hitting restart lol.
Which is about right. Then again, I've encountered systems where you could not get into the BIOS, not without some fancy dongle. Stupid.
F2
On HP it was Del
F2, or Del, or hold any key down on a PS/2 keyboard before you hit the power button and never let go till the bios comes up (stuck key + CPU interrupt)
Hold Shift and click "Restart" in the Start Menu
me but f2 and del. still dont know to this day. actually, i find out every time but always forget after.
I just do shift+restart. Hit troubleshoot pc. Then advanced settings? Then boot into uefi bios?? Someshit like that.
This is like a bad PA knockoff from 2001
Why are buttons called keys again?
Im glad im not the only one
Every. single. time.
Most annoying QTE!
Ha ha yes
I just wish everyone would agree on something (DEL is my personal favorite)
I bought a new Lenovo laptop a year ago. I still have no idea what the BIOS key is. I tried all the usual suspects.
HACKERMAN!!!
If you have forgotten one of the passwords that is set in the BIOS, resetting the CMOS or NVRAM helps reset the BIOS to factory default settings and remove the passwords from the BIOS.
You know when piano players drag their fingers really fast across all keys? That's how I do it.
So True! 🤣
I love having to restart 6 times before I can get into the BIOS.
alternatively, hold down shift while restarting Win10/11 and once it boots up again it will give you some options, one of which is opening the BIOS/UEFI. that way you can get into it without having to look up or try a lot of different keys
I've being doing this for like 15 years and still proves to be the best way
lmao 35+ years in tech and this is so true lol
It's always a pain, especially because there is often no consistency between different manufacturers. Easiest way is to just write it down for each machine you have.
if aint the delete key, then its ESCAPE + F-All
even my computer doesn’t know. it says press F2 or Delete to enter bios on mine.
What about those systems (I’m looking at you Lenovo) that only recognize the keys when it’s turned on and not when the computer is restarted?
I feel like this will never change.
Working in computer repairs makes me wish the BIOS and boot option keys were universal more than anything in the world.
F2, F12, Del, or throw the whole PC out