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When you select Shut down on a Windows 10 computer, your machine is really not shut down. When you turn the computer on again it executes a fast start, so you cannot open the BIOS menu. To get into the computer’s BIOS first shut down you computer as described in How to completely shut down a …
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The motherboard BIOS update can cause problems, it is possible that after the update the computer does not boot anymore. The ASUS motherboards come with the USB BIOS Flashback feature to load the BIOS even if the computer does not boot anymore. The process below is for the ASUS P8Z77-V PRO/THUNDERBOLT motherboard, but all modern ASUS motherboards provide the …
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My friend just bought a new Lenovo ideapad z580 laptop with Windows 8 on it. She was not sure if her special statistical programs will run on Windows 8, so she asked me to remove Windows 8 and install her copy of Windows 7 64 bit on it. As it turned out the Lenovo laptop …
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