Surface Pro 3 keeps rebooting itself into the BIOS

I have a Surface Pro 3 running 8.1 Ent with the latest firmware / updates. It is a machine that I intend to use for testing so right now there is nothing on it other than the base image (Office 2013 / Adobe Reader X / Trend AV).
Yesterday, while sitting at my desk, I noticed that it was suddenly at the BIOS screen. If I restarted from the BIOS screen, it would cycle, say Surface and then boot right back into the BIOS. Not wanting to spend a lot of time with it, I reimaged it and
figured that should be good.
Today, the machine did the same thing. If I power it completely down from the BIOS and then power it up again, I am able to get back into Windows, but it keeps shutting down and then booting into the BIOS at random intervals.
Being that this isn't my primary machine, I haven't caught it happening. I've taken a quick spin through the event logs and I can find the kernel power events but thus far I don't see anything real relevant right before those events occurred.
Frankly, I have too much to do to spend a lot of time troubleshooting one machine, but as we are looking to start deploying these in the future I figured I would reach out to see if anyone else had a similar experience or had any thoughts on what I could
look for.
Thanks in advance.
WB

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.
HTH,
GC

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