System starts too quickly and can't access the BIOS settings.
System starts too quickly and can't access the BIOS settings.
Hi everyone, I just set up Windows on my new PC yesterday. Before that, I checked the BIOS and turned off Fast Boot since I've had issues where Windows would skip the boot screen. That's happened again. Initially, Fast Boot was off during the first few starts, but now Windows boots quickly. Even after disabling Fast Boot, it still seems to be using it. Pressing DEL or entering BIOS through Windows doesn't work. I tried the Gigabytes Fast Boot app, confirmed Fast Boot was off, and clicked the "bring me into BIOS now" button. The PC restarts and gets me back into Windows. Plugging another monitor won't show the BIOS either. The only way to access BIOS is to unplug the SSD. I did that, reinstalled Windows again, kept Fast Boot disabled, and everything worked initially but now it's back. Anyone have any ideas? My motherboard is the Gigabyte Aorus B550M Pro-P. Thanks in advance!
Move and hit restart in the start menu power then you can select go to UEFI settings
Open the command prompt with admin privileges. Enter: shutdown /r /fw /t 0 For supported UEFI, which is more modern systems, this will shut down and restart into BIOS.
You can disable it from Windows too, which will prevent the system from attempting to use it. Go to Control Panel > Power Options > Select what the power button does, then click Change Settings that are unavailable. Uncheck Fast Boot and click Apply, then OK.
Thank you for your message. I attempted this, but it didn't work as expected.
The last resort option would be to disconnect your boot drive. You can't start Windows if the system can't find it. That should at least get you access to bios. Also I wonder if there is confusion between two different things here. Bios fast boot skips certain steps on power up, and it can make it difficult to get into bios because there isn't time. Windows fast start is an unrelated feature.
We were discussing Bios fast boot. It seems it's turned off, but it's definitely active. Disconnecting the boot drive helps, though it isn't ideal since I often need to access BIOS.