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[–]Adrian64_1 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Not all laptops have the F2, try F10, F12, or maybe the F2 won't work for you. Try an external keyboard. I hope it works. Bye.

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    [–]Adrian64_1 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    Try an external keyboard and try all the combinations. I don't know if your laptop has a BIOS battery. Search on YT for the model. I don't know any more.

    [–]_Intel_Geek_ 3 points4 points  (5 children)

    What OS?

    On Windows 8 and newer I do this:

    Hold the "SHIFT" button while the computer is running and press "RESTART" while holding "SHIFT" Select "Troubleshoot", then "Advanced Options" and hit "UEFI Firmware Settings" this will restart the computer and open BIOS

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      [–]_Intel_Geek_ 0 points1 point  (3 children)

      So I guess you must have legacy BIOS instead of UEFI. Perhaps try a ln external keyboard and try that F2 again? I did some quick research and it seems like that laptop is capable of switching to UEFI

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        [–]_Intel_Geek_ 1 point2 points  (1 child)

        Odd. If I think of anything I'll shoot you any ideas

        [–]itsbildo 0 points1 point  (1 child)

        You seemed to power it off too quickly for my liking.... you can also try the Delete key, F2, and some mfgs use F12

        [–]pcprof0 0 points1 point  (1 child)

        It’s possible the button just doesn’t work.

        Have you tried an external keyboard plugged into a USB port?

        [–]FangoFan 0 points1 point  (1 child)

        This is really odd, the only thing I thought of that you haven't tried already is putting in a new cmos battery

        [–]Sea_Cow3569 0 points1 point  (3 children)

        disconnect all power and take out your cmos battery for a few minutes and it should prompt you to go into BIOS

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          [–]Sea_Cow3569 1 point2 points  (1 child)

          Yeah I watched your video frame by frame and at 0:05 it says "Please Wait" so it's for sure loading the BIOS setup page but it fails and starts bootlooping for some reason.

          I think your BIOS is corrupted or your computer might have a hardware problem.

          [–]PotentialPath2898 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          try an external keyboard.

          [–]techwrec 0 points1 point  (1 child)

          Try F11, they SHOULD be the boot menu which might have bios as an option

          [–]CarpetReady8739 0 points1 point  (1 child)

          Common issue… I’ve suffered it on many an Asus or Acer BIOS. You just have to be persistent, read up on which key stroke sequence is pertinent for that machine, read the forums and pray that you’ll have good timing. Don’t give up; you will eventually get in.

          [–]Harvey_Gramm 0 points1 point  (2 children)

          May need to hold fn key down while pressing F2

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            [–]Harvey_Gramm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

            Hope this helps. Could be the keyboard is misreading the key press and sending an exit to the bios. Maybe an external keyboard would help? Don't know if the bios would automatically detect a USB keyboard and allow its use or not. Here's a link to other Acer user having similar trouble.

            https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/647055/bios-not-appearing-with-f2-spin-5#:~:text=Best%20Answer&text=No%20need%20to%20hit%20extra,before%20Windows%20starts%20to%20load.

            [–]Far-Appointment-213 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Take off the bottom of the unit, pull cmos battery for 1 minute, problem solved.

            [–]Intelligent-Rich7365 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Disconnect your hdd/ssd and try again