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I just bought an ASUS laptop with Windows 8 installed. How can I access the BIOS?
I tried to click any of the usual keys during power-up: ESC, DEL, F10, F8, F2... non of them work - I just get to Windows.
How can I determine the correct key? Do I have to just restart my laptop over and over again, trying each of the keys on my keyboard, until the BIOS shows up?
3I, too, recently bought a new ASUS laptop. All I can say is you have to be quick in order to press the (F2 works for me) BIOS-entrance-key. Are you sure you press those keys in the correct interval, as soon as laptop is powered up? I ask because I remember missing the short interval a few times. – Varaquilex – 2014-01-14T17:27:50.747
@Ramhound is the version of Windows relevant to the BIOS? I thought the BIOS loads even before Windows. – Erel Segal-Halevi – 2014-01-14T17:34:57.833
@Varaquilex I try to click the F key and the power-up button simultaneously. Should I click one time and then hold? Or should I click again and again fast? – Erel Segal-Halevi – 2014-01-14T17:36:50.107
1@ErelSegalHalevi Click repeatedly. – Varaquilex – 2014-01-14T17:37:39.937
@Ramhound OK, I have Windows 8 but I don't know which version exactly. How do I get this information? – Erel Segal-Halevi – 2014-01-14T17:46:34.623
@ErelSegalHalevi - If you will update your tags to reflect the use of Windows 8 I will remove the downvote I issued ( I actually missed the fact you indicated you were running Windows 8 ). – Ramhound – 2014-01-14T19:49:47.983