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    6x24w - what is the BIOS shortcut key?

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by SuperRoach, Jun 22, 2012.

  1. SuperRoach

    SuperRoach Notebook Guru

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    Formatting this machine and giving it to a nephew for his studies.

    I wanted to reformat and get rid of vista, but to do that I'll need to find the key for the boot menu or the bios screen.

    Typically you can press F12 on an asus netbook to bring up a bootable drives list to boot from. Otherwise in the bios you usually can make the usb drive be first.

    Whats the key to do it on the zeptop laptops?

    I've noticed the starting screen says "F2 for system utilities", but that seems to be ignored and just boots to windows. Grr.

    *edit* for anyone else that cares, I took a "mash all keys" approach, and got to the device selection menu. I was bashing f9, f10, f11, f12 and f1. So, one of those.
     
    SuperRoach, Jun 22, 2012
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  2. ReneSDK

    ReneSDK Notebook Consultant

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    Well it should actually be F2
     
    ReneSDK, Jul 21, 2012
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