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    Cannot access BIOS on Series 7 after dead battery

    Discussion in 'Samsung' started by ironchar, Dec 29, 2016.

  1. ironchar

    ironchar Notebook Enthusiast

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    weird its like my battery died....

    and it forgot all my bios settings cause the boot mode is back from UFEI to legecy only... causing the laptop to flashh on and off

    last time this happened on windows 10 I could access bios and change it... but its not letting me this time!

    help! what do i do? F2 ISN'T WORKING


    holy crap I used the "unplug harddrive" trick and got to the boot menu from the app menu..

    so apparently we can update the bios? cause mine seems to forget options when low battery... this time it forgot legecy/UEFI boot which caused my laptop to crap out when it died on hibernate

    laptop boots fine- fast. but it seems that my phoenix BIOS doesn't want to boot at all with repeating f2 presses... what the hell is going on?
     
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    ironchar, Dec 29, 2016
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  2. TANWare

    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    if you have UEFI as boot f2 may not work. You may need from windows 10 settings select to boot to bios and reboot.
     
    TANWare, Dec 31, 2016
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  3. ironchar

    ironchar Notebook Enthusiast

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    but it worked before on my windows 7 just fine
     
    ironchar, Jan 2, 2017
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