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BIOS acces gone in win7-startup - "Advanced windows" options instead
Hi!
I have a Gigabyte Laptop, with Windows 7 ultimate, and used to get a message "Press DEL to enter setup" just after my POST screen.
However, this is now gone, and i have been unable to enter my bios. The "windows starting" appears and everything else is as usual, it has been working fine, so i dont know for how long my bios have been gone.
Now, what i really want is ree-booting some USB options, since this is done in BIOS i discovered i no longer have acces during startup. I dont know if my faulty USB and the BIOS-gone-bye-bye is related...
I have edited msconfig, tried safe modes etc., disabled "Hibernate" (due to someone having my problem and seeing the message "resuming windows" instead of "starting windows", however i just dont get a message like that)
I have been adviced to clearing my CMOS but this requires acces to BIOS and BIOS is ... hiding!
WHAT I DO GET:
a black screen, white letters, a quit look at "Pheonix Trusted core... BIOS version .. system ID... 1 processer detected " ie the ususal stuff. But there is no line with "Press DEL to enter setup" it is gone!
System information tells me that my BIOS is Phoenix Technologies LTD.
Entering DEL a lot during startup (I dont think it is a fast startup, but i do not know) gives me a new black screen, white letters, and Windows Advanced options, such as running a memory scan.
This is new!!!!!!
A have spent hours searching forums: only 1 guy had my problem exactly, and this was unresolved. Someonelse had succes clearing the CMOS (i dont know how to do this with no BIOS), and someone turned his PC into smaller parts, removed the HD an booted from something else, but this is a laptop (Gigabyte) and I dont have "something else" to boot from, though mayby I can find my HD and take it out?
Can anyome guess what have happened, and how to fix this? I have had some events of "blue screen" due to RAM problems, but otherwise my laptop is only lightly used and has few other problems, though it is not new.
Hoping for help! Charlotte