Hi all, i'm new to win 8 so please be patient with me.
The thing is as follows, i wanted to do a fresh windows 8.1 install (i have a samsung NP500P4C-T03CL notebook with windows 8 OEM preinstalled and when i updated to 8.1 the system went slow and "faily"). So i put the CD on the drive, but for my suprise when i reboted the system to enter the BIOS the F2 key didn't do the job, nor it appeared on the splash screen on samsung. After googling a lot and under trial/error concept i could enter the BIOS via Shift+Restart. I did some changes to the BIOS booting set-up and noticed i have 2 Windows Boot Manager, the CD, the HDD and one option called "SETUP" that has a "!" ("!3.Setup"). So i tried every combination posible with Secure boot unabled, and UEFI+CSM OS, also with UEFI disabled, and none gave me the option to enter bios with F2, or recovery with F4. I managed to install win7 on another HDD. Main thing, besides the F2, F4, F8, F9, F12 (yes i prove all of them, even ESC), is that whenever i change the boot order it's not saved, and it is restablished to:
1. Windows Boot Manager
2. Windows Boot Manager
3. Setup
4. HDD
5. CD
Also i noticed that on the password options the one for the HDD appears grayed and as "FROZEN". I entered user and supervisor password, neither cleared the HDD one. So anyone having any ideas, i want to keep the BIOS update as a last resort. Please enlight me fellows i'm disturbed and annoyed on this issue, (clearly it's not hdd related as the same thing happened when i tried another hdd with win7).
Thanks for reading this and best regards.:thumb:
The thing is as follows, i wanted to do a fresh windows 8.1 install (i have a samsung NP500P4C-T03CL notebook with windows 8 OEM preinstalled and when i updated to 8.1 the system went slow and "faily"). So i put the CD on the drive, but for my suprise when i reboted the system to enter the BIOS the F2 key didn't do the job, nor it appeared on the splash screen on samsung. After googling a lot and under trial/error concept i could enter the BIOS via Shift+Restart. I did some changes to the BIOS booting set-up and noticed i have 2 Windows Boot Manager, the CD, the HDD and one option called "SETUP" that has a "!" ("!3.Setup"). So i tried every combination posible with Secure boot unabled, and UEFI+CSM OS, also with UEFI disabled, and none gave me the option to enter bios with F2, or recovery with F4. I managed to install win7 on another HDD. Main thing, besides the F2, F4, F8, F9, F12 (yes i prove all of them, even ESC), is that whenever i change the boot order it's not saved, and it is restablished to:
1. Windows Boot Manager
2. Windows Boot Manager
3. Setup
4. HDD
5. CD
Also i noticed that on the password options the one for the HDD appears grayed and as "FROZEN". I entered user and supervisor password, neither cleared the HDD one. So anyone having any ideas, i want to keep the BIOS update as a last resort. Please enlight me fellows i'm disturbed and annoyed on this issue, (clearly it's not hdd related as the same thing happened when i tried another hdd with win7).
Thanks for reading this and best regards.:thumb:
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- NP500P4C-T03CL
- CPU
- Intel® Core™ i5 3210M (2.50 GHz, 3 MB, caché L3), Intel HM76
- Memory
- PC3 DDR3 8 GB @ 1.600 MHz (4 GB x 2), 2 SODIMM
- Graphics Card(s)
- Intel HD 4000/ nVidia GeForce GT 650M 1GB
- Monitor(s) Displays
- HD LED de 14.0"
- Screen Resolution
- 1366 x 768
- Hard Drives
- (1) ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB S-ATAII 1 TB (5,400 RPM)
- Browser
- Chrome
- Antivirus
- Avast!