BIOS non accessible after installing W10 x86. Serious Issue.

Potentially a serious issue.
From a "cold boot" (following a previous shutdown command) the BIOS is non accessible. The actual clickable text of "Press F2 to enter set up" is missing. This means that no recovery of this PC exists such as booting from
a Windows disc or other bootable media.
Fortunately, providing you can boot into W10 and do a restart, then the BIOS options appear.
This means that if Windows didn't boot into Windows your PC could well become a brick.

I hope I can help you about. I've note a funny thing on my PC: I have installed Windows 10 on a spare HDD, clean install on new formatted disk, without any other HDD inside. Later I've "shut down", unplugged all cables and removed
from PC the Windows 10's HDD. I have then rebooted my PC on my usual HDD, it was telling me when pushing the power-on button "stepping out from hibernation". I've seen ~ this before in 7 and 8 installations (only). Not a BIOS/PC/HDD problem for sure.
Maybe you have already done that before, sorry if my message is giving too much details, but I wouldn't want that you break something down on the process :-)
Try to follow those steps in this order:
1 - Remove all the medias connected (USB keys, CD, external HDD etc.).
2 - Plug off the power cord, remove the battery, remove the HDD (usually is easily accessible from one side or from down-side of your laptop), wait for 4-5 minutes, then put in the battery (or the power cord) and try to power on your laptop
without any HDD, USB key or DVD.
Normally you should see the BIOS as usual, it will announce you that you have no boot media, or that there is an error and default settings were loaded. If so, power off, disconnect power source (cord and battery), plug in the HDD and
restart the computer. If it's again blocking your bios, return to step 2 for removing the HDD. You may consider to thoroughly cleaning your HDD (including the MBR, formatting will not clear everything out, rather delete the partitions, re-create them, re-format).
If 1 and 2 don't change the state of your BIOS, the error it's not connected with your HDD/OS installed. It just happened that starts just after you installing a new OS.

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