Can't into the bios

I have the helix and I am trying to get into the bios to enable intel vt-x, so i can run a 64b VM. but when I try to hit enter at the spash screen I get "Launching the startup interrupt menu" but windows just starts up. is there something I need to do in windows?
I have windows 8.1 installed.

Had the same problem. F1 instead of Enter works.

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Can't boot into the bios

Hi!i need some help please T.TIve just changed my HP 14-d003la Notebooks HDD for an SSD.Saddly, after the cloning and plugging everything back in, the bios simply wont just boot. I even tried to put the HDD back, but no luck, ive done several BIOS recovery with the USB, still nothing. Everytime i press like F2....BIOS setup Options.....stays there forever Any clue on how to solve this?Thnx in advance!

thereafter you can't boot up into the bios with either the F2 or the F12 key.
Karl, you can boot directly into the BIOS by pressing (and holding down) F2 prior to pressing the power switch.
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I got the same problem today. Solved it by pressing 'VolumeUp + Power' buttons at the same time. Next time I rebooted, it booted normally to O/S instead of the BIOS.
This button sequence is one technique how to enable access the BIOS screen. I believe this button sequence acts as a "toggle" switch, instead of just a "momentary switch" or a once-only switch. I think what happened to me
is that I "toggled-on" this switch, and I kept rebooting to BIOS until I "toggled-off".
This is different behaviour than what I'm accustomed to on PC's, where I have to hit F2 (or F12 or DEL) every time, if I want to access BIOS screen.
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Can't see the bios

Hi all
Please help!
I think I am having problems with the PCI Express card so I went into BIOS and chose the on the board graphics option disabled the PCI option. Now when I boot I simply have a blank monitor screen to look at! I can't remember exactly what I did because I can't see the BIOS screen.
My PC is the HP Media Centre m7000 the m7755UK version. S/N CZX707MRSJ, running VISTA
thanks in advance for any help.
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Hi,
That being the case, there isn't really any option other than to replace the graphics card - which will more than likely resolve this issue.
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Sooo... How do I get into the bios setup?

Now before you get out the pitchforks and torches, I know I'm supposed to continually press or hold a certain Function key when I first power on a computer.
My cousin left me his old Pavilion a410e. I figured I'd set it up for when family or friends needed to use a computer. Well... when I got everything together and started it up, I got an error. "CPU Fan Failure". (Now you see why my cousin gave the computer to me.) I popped open the case and saw the fan spin up fine when powering the computer. The fan's power connecter and the heatsink/fan are all properly in place. I tried to google for a solution, and came across suggestions to turn off the fan check through bios. The computer came into my hands with the 3.06 bios, and while in that bios menu, the cpu fan options were greyed out (unchangeable). I thought maybe a bios update would change that, so I went ahead and downloaded/installed the 3.10 bios update from HP. It installed fine (I guess), but now I can't get into the bios menu, no matter which key I press. Windows boots up fine, so long as I bypass the CPU fan failure warning by pressing F2. I'd really like to kill that warning. How do I get into the bios menu now, guys?

ComputerzEast wrote:
You may be able to go back to an older bios revision. . . some computers let you and others do not. I don't have experience with this particular model to know for sure.
I wouldn't mind trying. I'm not sure where I'd find older bios updates, tho. HP doesn't seem to archive their bioses on the site.
20YearsHPUser wrote:
In windows, what bios version does it report? -- you said you were able to boot into windows.
I'm...not sure what you mean, but if you're asking me which bios version I have installed currently, it's: 3.10. For Pavilion a410e.
nazcar4u wrote:
Ihis may sound stuipid but have u tried hitting the ESC key to enter BIOS?
ESC takes me to the "Boot Menu", which works, oddly... The boot screen says to press F1 to get into the bios setup, but it just won't work.

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Hi,
Did you already tried the keys "del" "F1" or "End" to enter BIOS? Please check this and come back in case of no success...
Would really like to know if you found a way into the BIOS. :)
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I have a slow startup or login, with numerious spinning wheels. Sometimes after a long ti,e I can sign into the computer and sometimes it just fails to startup or login. I have a MacBookPro OS X 10.7.5 from 2011

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Hi AndyG, and welcome to the Lenovo User Community!
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