Clevo P170HM Entering Bios Cmos Setup Problem

Hi There,

I have recently purchased a Mecer (Clevo) P170HM Laptop.

I am trying to get into it's cmos/bios setup at boot, but pressing the F2 key does not seem to do anything.
I have tried with an external keyboard attached as well just to make sure it is not my laptopa keyboard that might be faulty, also no luck with the external keyboard.
I have gone as far as to pull the HDD out of the machine so nas to prevent it from booting up into windows, and from there hopefully trying to find the right key to enter into it's bios/cmos setup. Once again, no luck.
I have even gone as far as holding down the F2 key before powering on, and continue holding it through it's bootup proceedure. still, nothing. it's clean boot up from power off, it keeps coming up with a

I am running Windows 8 - 64bit on the machine (yes I know, I only bought the machine yesterday and am planning on revertig back to either Windows 7, or Windows 10 as soon as possible)

Oh, on last thing, on it's clrean boot up from power off, it keeps coming up with a Mecer/Clevo screen shot, which says restoring data from hibernation.
I find this kind off odd, but even if i do a complete/clean shut down from Windows 8, and pull the battery, and start up again, I am faced with this screen time and time again?
Not sure if that also might have something to do with me not being able to access the bios/cmos using F2 at boot up?

Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Cheers.

 

Did you try the full clean of bios/ec??

Turn the power off
remove battery
remove bios battery plug
press power button for 5/10 seconds
wait 5/10 minutes

Then, plug the bios battery, notebook battery and power on the machine!

Did you try pressing the "del" key too?

 

Oh I have run in to this with my P150EM before, no idea what causes it (something to do with a bad hybernate flag I assume) but I did find a solution at the time, its been a while since I was running stock bios so I may have this a little off in my head but what I remember was:
shut down normally from windows
pull all harddrives, usb drives and optical drive
start up, it will still say resuming from hybernate, let it fail
after bios fails to find a boot device, shut down by holding power button for 4 seconds
put a drive back in your 2.5" bay
start up and press F2 untill you are in bios

Also, don't have any external peripherals attached, monitors included
Hope that works for you