BIOS with no boot options

nevergiveup said:

hai whs try this
1.turn on pc
2.plug in usb pendrive on to usb 2.0 port
3.restart and enter into bios
you may have the chance to see boot order option i hope it will help you.this how my laptop works.thankyou

Thanks for the suggestion. I have tried all the tricks but nothing worked. Now the PC is at the Asus service center. They will flash a new OS on it.

Wolfgang, is that the one you bought so cheap? Maybe if you paid full price they would have given you the password too.

nevergiveup said:

wish you all the best.did you tried exactly the trick i suggested ?just i am curious.thankyou

Nah, the PC was mailed 2 weeks ago to Asus.

essenbe said:

Wolfgang, is that the one you bought so cheap? Maybe if you paid full price they would have given you the password too.

Yeah, that's the cheap one. But I don't think that makes a difference for Asus. We also have an Asus T100 transformer which the wife really likes and does not have an encryption problem. That's why she recommended it to a fried. That friend bought the T100 for full price ($349) and guess what - the C partition is encrypted on that one too. I think I will recommend to send that one also back. We bought the cheap one from Staples and the friend bought from HHgregg. So it is not the dealer but Asus that produces such a nuisance.

nevergiveup said:

in my laptop i do the above trick to boot from pendrive.when i do that trick and enter into bios i can see two boot options.but difficult to change boot order.what i did is simply selected internal hdd and disabled internal hdd thats it done my laptop booted from pendrive.

Yeah right - you can add a boot entry with EasyUEFI.

EasyUEFI: Edit UEFI Boot Entries In Windows 8.1

And then there is also this one that explains it.

How To Boot From USB Drive Even If Your PC Doesn’t Support Booting From USB

Update - and that is a good one.

After I had RMAd the laptop 2 weeks ago to the Asus service center I did not hear from them. Had to call Asus twice to inquire what is going on. Today I get a mail from them saying that the laptop was sent to the wrong service center (with the FedEx papers that they gave me) and will now be forwarded to the right center - and that will take 4 to 7 days. Unbelievable !!!

Lesson learned - never buy an Asus.