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    New UX305FA owner - boot to BIOS in emergency/Fastboot questions

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by markd89, Feb 21, 2015.

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    markd89 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi All,

    I have been setting up my new notebook. Everything has gone mostly smoothly and I like it. Contrary to initial reviews, the CPU performance seems satisfactory enough to me. It's faster than my old laptop.

    So, my question:

    By default Fastboot is enabled in the BIOS. This is nice as the thing boots up instantly. Unfortunately, with fastboot enabled, you can't hit F2 to get into the BIOS to change boot device.

    Now, I know that I can shutdown Windows holding shift and get a special menu to tell it to boot into the BIOS or shutdown /r /o in a command prompt. That's great and I did that to get into BIOS to boot from a CD so I could make one big partition instead of the C (OS) and D (Data) layout that it ships with.

    I'd like to leave Fastboot turned on, but what happens if my Windows gets so borked that it doesn't start. Maybe it gets so borked that it hangs during booting up. If I can't get Windows up, then I can't shut it down in the way that gets me into the BIOS. It seems like a Catch 22.

    At some point in my ownership of the laptop and hacking on it, this is going to happen. Do I need to leave Fastboot turned off so that I can get into BIOS whenever that day comes or is there some other way to get into BIOS for a machine that doesn't boot or hangs during loading Windows?

    What am I missing?

    Thanks!!
    Mark
     
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    markd89 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Doh! found it in the FAQ. ESCape at the logo screen gives an option to get into BIOS. It's weird that they trap for ESCape but not F2. Oh well....
     
    markd89, Feb 21, 2015
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