Unable to Access BIOS

I have a Pavillion Elite e9280f desktop. When I start the computer, I'm prompted to press F10 to enter the BIOS settings. However, pressing F10 has no effect - I've pressed it once, I've pressed it repeatedly, I've held the F10 key down - in all cases, the boot process continues after a few seconds and I get "Starting Windows". I'm wondering if this is related to the HP USB keyboard that came with the PC, but mostly I'm wondering how I can access the BIOS settings if pressing the F10 does not work!!
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I finally solved the problem of not being able to access the BIOS. First, I realized that my keyboard was plugged into an external USB Hub instead of directly into a USB port on the computer. Moving the keyboard to a USB port on the computer allowed F10 to be recognized and the PC showed the "Entering Setup" message, however, the PC just hung at that point.
I then unplugged all non-essential items from the PC and restarted. This time F10 actually got me into the BIOS settings. By process of elimination, I determined it was the external USB hub that was hanging the PC when it was attempting to enter Setup. I have no idea why that should be a low level issue, but hopefully this post will save someone else many frustrating moments trying to access the BIOS.

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hi danielsena,
Welcome to the Forums.
Your issue might be similar to this thread.
It's possible that the UEFI firmware in the BIOS got corrupted for some reason and one way to solve it is to reflash the BIOS (see this article - this is for another model but same aspects apply). For now, yYou may need to bring it in to reflash the BIOS as there's no available download yet on the lenovo website.
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Hi all, I have a VPCF11M1E and I am not able to access its BIOS. Pressing F2 doesnt show me any BIOS options and when I press the Assist button it automatically starts the computer. I really do need help ASAP if possible. Thanks in advance!

Hi Barletta,
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Laptop will not boot, stops at Toshiba screen then an error message. Can't access BIOS

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Thanks,
Josh

Hi Svet, thanks for the advice. I tried to use the GO2BIOS button which essentially caused the same outcome as when I jam on the delete key during restart.
Basically, it initiates a reboot, the black startup screen begins...
1) I see 9C in the lower right corner
2) then B4 for several seconds
3) then very briefly A2.
4) Then the blue BIOS screen flickers in the upper-left corner (btw, this is only a partially rendered screen, it's only the title bar plus the boot dropdown which is unclickable), then the computer restarts and goes back to step 1.
I also have tried using the ClickBIOS and that just fails to start with an error like "SCEWIN_64.exe has stopped working".
I think my issue is deeper, any further ideas?
Thanks,
Josh

MPower Z87 - strange bahavioure with SSD - Unable to upgrade BIOS

My Spec:
CPU: i7-4770
Mobo: MSI Z87 MPower (MS-7881) 1.0
Chipset: Haswell Rev.06
Bios: v. 1.3
Memory: G.Skill 2x4GB XMP1.2 Dual channel
Graphics card: GeForce GTX 660
PSU: Seasonic M12II-620Bronze - 620W
HDD:
WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0 - ATA8-ACS-SATA II
WDC WD20EARX-00PASB0 - ATA8-ACS-SATA III (MSI tested - ok)
WDC WD20EARX-00PASB0 - ATA8-ACS-SATA III (MSI tested - ok)
SSD:
Samsung SSD 840 (256GB) - ACS2-SATA III
Toshiba THNSNS128MCP (128GB) - ATA8-ACS-SATA III
*According to this: http://www.msi.com/file/test_report/TR3_2851.pdf
PC - Windows 8 x64bit
Laptop - Windows 8 x64bit
Strange thing happens yesterday, I did run above setup for over a month now without any issue (excluding HDD A2 detection that took around 30sec-45sec). I did copied some video files (3files - around 2GB) from WDC WD20EARX to my Laptop over network (SMB - or whatever proto. Windows 8 x64 uses these days) and copying just stopped - no error or anything - just progress stopped. So I tried to kill Explorer process - without success. On my laptop I couldn't access these directories with the error "Unable to access...". So what I did was to restart PC - not hard restart but windows Restart. I did same on the Laptop. Laptop boot up properly but my PC did not.
   On PC during boot I can see 99 -> 9C -> A2. At first 9C was fast, after some reboots it's taking now 30sec+, and A2 ... takes 10minutes. Strange part is that after that time everything is working fine. After Windows 8 turns on I did scan drives and non of them had an error.
   And now it's a kicker - I did copied all my data from mSATA drive (Toshiba one) and removed partition and reformatted drive - PC now starts after A2 like - 30 sec.
   But still booting up takes like 9C (sometimes its faster) - 30sec, A2 - 30sec -> 10min.
   Also I did tried to update BIOS from 1.3 to 1.5 or 1.4. After selection in BIOS file motherboard just freezes.
So questions:
1. How long it takes on MPower Z87 to detect drives for You guys? (on my 9C - 15-30sec, A2 - 15-30sec - total boot detection time is around 1min)
2. Why I cant update BIOS?
Thanks for reply
Regards

I almost brick my mobo. I did got my USB drive prepared and after reboot on "Do You want to run Mtest before update" I did press Y, although instead of running Memtest it went back to my boot chain - so boot into OS, and halfway during boot power was turned of...
Now after disabling setting up 1 drive for boot device (was that before update) I can see that speed increased.
EDIT:
Ok it did not helped at all, now its even longer to boot.
What's strange is that after 1st boot after BIOS update everything went OK == fast, then after reboot from Windows slowness starts again. No changes to BIOS settings...
I had exactly same situation with WD EARS, repartitioning helps but if this occurs again on that drive then I'm in big trouble as I don't have any more 3,5' USB HDD bay.

P7N Diamond, unable to access RAID Config during Boot

I've got a P7N Diamond motherboard, with 6 disks attached, one SSD (boot) and I recently installed 5 1.5TB disks as well. These I would like to run in RAID 5 mode. I've enabled RAID for those channels in the BIOS, but I am unable to access the RAID config that's supposed to be available during bootup. The system also has an ADAPTEC RAID 1430SA ROHS SINGLE PCI-E LP 4-PORT controller with two disks attached, could this be messing things up? (I DO get an option to access this RAID config, but it fails claiming too little free memory (!) (It's a system with 4GB installed)) In Windows 7, the 5 disks shows up in the NV Raid as "Free disks", but I'm not able to do anything with them except setting SMART info. In the Windows Disk management they don't show up at all.
So, anyone got any ideas on how to access the raid config (F10) during boot?
All suggestions appreciated
Thanks,
Zem

The error regarding "too little free memory" isn't related to system RAM but to bios ROM address space. As already stated, the Adaptec card is causing the conflict with the NV RAID controller bios. This is actually a very common issue when trying to run multiple disk controllers in a single system and isn't any fault of the mobo. There's only so much addressable space for BIOS to reside in.
You may be able to free up some address space by disabling the LAN Option (boot) ROM in CMOS and setting the JMicron controller to IDE instead of RAID. Even better would be to disable the JMicron controller entirely.
If, after doing so, the Adaptec controller is still not able to work with the NV controller in RAID mode, then I'm afraid you're out of luck.

I have just sought to update my lightroom and am now unable to access the develop function and get a note stating that I have reduced functionality what it this about and how do I get my product back

I have just sought to update my lightroom and am now unable to access the develop function and get a note stating that I have reduced functionality what it this about and how do I get my product back

Hi there
I have version 5.7 and every time I opened it I was told that updates are available and to click on the icon to access these. Instead it just took me to the
adobe page with nowhere visible to update. I then sought to download lightroom cc and this is when I could not access the 'develop' section due to reduced
functionality It was apparent that my photos had been put in cc but no way to access them unless I wanted to subscribe.
I have since remedied the problem as my original lightroom 5.7 icon is still available on the desktop and have gone back to that. I do feel that this is a bit
of a rip off and an unnecessary waste of my time though.
Thank you for your prompt reply by the way.
Carlo
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Can not access BIOS after update BIOS

Can not access BIOS after update X220 BIOS to version 1.19
Type: 4290-R32
BIOS: 1.19
http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/8duj09uc.txt
http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/8duj09uc.iso
Ask google and try anyway but not work
- Press ThinkVantage, Press F1, Press Fn+F1
- Power off, unplug AC, unplug battery, wait 15 miniute, try all again
- Try to update BIOS again

That is really weird.
When you are in Windows, can you test and see if the F1 key is working? If it is working. Shut down the laptop then boot it back up. At the Thinkpad screen, keep spamming the F1 key and see if you are able to boot into BIOS.
//JameZ
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