To me it's easier, but mine boots pretty quick with SSD 24 GB RAM, had 32 GB of Ram, but 2 sticks of 8 were bad, had to send back, put the 2 4GB back in, works pretty good
Yeah that is what I do, the second I see the Dell logo I press F2 and F12 basically I press everything under the sun and NOTHING happens..I will see a flash of a white screen for a second then it will go to the load screen for Windows 10..I did the advanced start up thing, the options for the different DVD Rom drives is ridiculous they are all identical I clicked the first one and it rebooted it didnt read the disc
It still boot faster with FAST boot enabled Use GPTGEN.exe to switch back to UEFI without having to reset the entire computer. Make sure you update your BIOS firmware to the latest version if you haven't already and maybe that fix issue. What your model computer and I help you hunt down the correct firmware?
I have the Dell XPS 8700 I wouldnt know how to update my BIOS firmware(God I Feel so stupid) Ive never actually even gone to BIOS on this PC before, never had a reason to, did it on the laptop since I put in windows 8.1, then put in windows 10 so I was familiar with it but never did it with the PC
Go to control panel, power options, choose what power buttons do, change settings that are currently unviable, un check fast boot, then try F2
Ok did that and I unchecked "Turn on fast startup" (Recommended) so once I do the clean install this will go back to being checked how does it work
Did it and it says under BIOS version/date..Dell INC A06 11/18/2013..SMBIOS Version 2.7..BIOS Mode UEFI
Once you clean install it will turn back on, we are just slowing it down for you to get into bios this time and have first boot device CD ROM
You can update BIOS now if you wish, its on dells download drivers page, you need service tag or let their tool frisk your puter. It's not hard to flash BIOS, download to desktop, click on it follow directions
I had Windows 8.1 and Office 2013 permanently activated via phone. However, after upgrading to Windows 10, both products are listed as not activated. Shouldn't they stay activated?
Ok well the good news is that now my BIOS version/date is A10 12/8/2014 so thats the good thing..still cant get into bios though LOL..I had checked that turn on fast startup thing because I thought that once I updated the BIOS all would be good but I Guess I need to uncheck it?
So I uncheck it..reboot..and press F2 or F12 when I see the Dell LOGO and hope for the best Oh and IF I get into BIOS I have to make sure that the DVDROM drive is the FIRST Thing selected of course