Unable to enter into BIOS (T430s 2353)

Hello all,
I seem not to be able to enter into my laptop's BIOS anymore. I was able to do it few days after purchase, but no longer. I'm using T430s (2353) with latest BIOS. I see "Press <F1> ..." message, but when I try to press it, nothing happens. The only way I found to enter into BIOS now is to remove battery. This clears BIOS settings and then after first power up I am forced into BIOS to set date and time settings.
I did BIOS firmware update again just to be sure, but it did not chage a thing - I still can't enter BIOS,
Any ideas?
Thanks,
J
T430s (i7 / HD+ / Intel 520 SSD / 16 GB Ram)
Previous: X60s, Portégé R100

Slightly different model (I have a T430U) but this may help.
I had the same problem after doing a clean install of windows 8, lost the hit enter to go into BIOS option.
One way to do it is to use the advanced restart facility in windows 8. To do this open up the "modern" UI settings (Win-C then choose settings-->change PC settings), go to the general page, scroll down to the bottom and you'll see an option for "Advanced Startup". If you click the Restart now button and then choose to restart on the page you get offered as the PC powers down, it should let you enter the BIOS.
The other thing that seems to have restored the option to enter the BIOS for me (or at least it happened around when I made this change), was to disable hibernate. Once I've done this I seem to get the BIOS option whenever I booted.
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