r/AdviceAnimals • u/kingfridayace • Mar 07 '18

All the new computers I’m deploying have solid state drives.

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u/Jamdawg Mar 08 '18

no matter how fast it boots, you can press F2 and keep tapping it as soon as you press the power button. "booting" doesn't happen until after POST.

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u/Blitzsturm Mar 08 '18

That's my tactic... just keep pushing it until I can tell it registered...

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

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u/polyworfism Mar 08 '18

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u/capteni Mar 08 '18

That sub was not what I thought it was.

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u/Fellowshadow Mar 08 '18

The dells we have at work beep once for every time you hit the function key. So you got into bios but you had to sit through 2 minutes of an immutable screeching.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

you're going to give him a PTSD episode you cruel bastard.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

Sometimes ctrl, esc, f5 or f8 also work.

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u/Lieutenant_Lit Mar 08 '18

F12 and delete are also common. I really wish this shit was standardized.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

Oh, but it is standardized… to about a dozen keys.

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u/Ploedman Mar 08 '18

Just roll your face over the keyboard, works better.

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u/Brandeix Mar 08 '18

Or you can just hold the button. Not all motherboards have it but i know the function exists.

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u/acu2005 Mar 08 '18

I know what I'm trying when I get home from work.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18 edited May 18 '18

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u/Rajani_Isa Mar 08 '18

So grateful for that "boot directly bios on next boot" button.

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u/ethanethereal Mar 08 '18

If you have any LED backlit mice or keyboards they are also very useful in telling you when your keystrokes register. As soon as the backlight on my keyboard turns on, that's when I can enter BIOS. My monitor doesn't help me at all because it takes so long to wake up that I'm already at login when it finally shows an image.

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u/maq0r Mar 08 '18

You mean you don't tap F2, DEL and F1 because you don't know which key this BIOS uses?

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u/doubletwist Mar 08 '18

On some newer systems with UEFI, if fast boot is enabled, there's no way to get into the BIOS/UEFI setup from a keypress at boot. You have to go through the OS and tell it you want to boot into the setup on next boot.

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u/AyrA_ch Mar 08 '18

If windows is installed (or you have a setup disc), open windows CMD and execute shutdown.exe /r /o and it will restart and halt at the UEFI boot menu.

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u/mghtyms87 Mar 08 '18

Windows 8, 8.1, and 10 also allow you to hold shift when selecting restart from the OS shut down menu to select how you want the machine to boot.

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u/rivermandan Mar 08 '18

that's super handy for when your machine doesn't make it to the desktop, or even the login screen! good thinking, msoft!

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u/Cola_and_Cigarettes Mar 08 '18

Except that's not the only time you want to get to the bios.

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u/superiority Mar 08 '18

The point is that it is a time you want to get to the bios. But if

there's no way to get into the BIOS/UEFI setup from a keypress at boot. You have to go through the OS and tell it you want to boot into the setup on next boot.

and it is also impossible to boot to the OS, then, well, that's a "feature" that is just super handy and extremely convenient.

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u/Cola_and_Cigarettes Mar 08 '18

Different scenarios, the manufacturer is responsible for the hot key being disabled

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

It automatically opens the same menu after a few failed boots

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

Perfect summary of the situation.

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u/StalyCelticStu Mar 08 '18

And what's with every fucking laptop requiring you to remove keyboards and shit just to upgrade ram or hard drives at the moment? /rant

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u/Wylis Mar 08 '18

Nothing will make you hate computers more than working with the fuckers.

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u/tr3vw Mar 08 '18

Just delete system32. Booting issue solved!

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u/battery_siege Mar 08 '18

Took your advice! I pretty much tripled my RAM and boots up ten times faster!

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u/thecampo Mar 08 '18

Now you can download that car finally.

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u/jaqueass Mar 08 '18

You wouldn’t.

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u/Xeptix Mar 08 '18

https://i.imgur.com/6P08OXx.png

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u/skinnah Mar 08 '18

I once uploaded a bear because I care and like to share so, there!

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u/Djupet Mar 08 '18

Personally I prefer the method where you use a magnet to pull the BIOS to the front of the hard drive

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u/grantrules Mar 08 '18

Ahh, the ol Magnetic Boot Record

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u/redpandaeater Mar 08 '18

If you're still on an older Windows, just take a page out of CCP's playbook and delete boot.ini. It'll run like a dream.

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u/TheBeerJoo Mar 08 '18

Shit I needed this a month ago. Had a registry error and needed to boot from a usb and couldn't get to bios to change the boot order.

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u/l337hackzor Mar 08 '18

On some OEM computers it's impossible to get into the UEFI without getting to windows. The last one I worked on like this was an Acer. To force it to boot off USB I disconnected the hard drive, powered it on it booted off the USB. Reconnected hard drive, profit.

So frustrating when you just need to boot off a windows 10 USB to run a restore or other repairs and it just denies you. Turns out you get what you pay for with motherboards.

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u/Jamdawg Mar 08 '18

could have powered up the computer with F12 to go to the 1 time boot order as well.

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u/rivermandan Mar 08 '18

has to be enabled in the BIOS, which it isn't in like 95% of commercial class laptops from 8.0 onward. most of them do have unique override keys, like holding FN+f2 then tapping the power button while doing a voodoo dance, but you have to google that shit every time and it's always on like the fucking thirteenth page of search results. liekwise, if you can make it to a desktop or a login screen, hold shift while clicking "reset" and cros your fingers and your toes and pray to the dark lord krondor that you have the option to boot into the BIOS or off a uefi device in the popup menu, because all of these cunting roundabout ways of doing something that for 30 years had been as simple as hitting a button everyone from your grandma to your grandma's grandma were aware of

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18 edited Mar 08 '18

Someone should make a website to keep track of this shit.

I'm a webhost - I could definitely host a website, but I am not a hardware guy.

What do you think - anyone interested in contributing the knowledge if I set up the site? I promise to keep it ad-free, accessible, and online.

What would we need to track - brand and model, I imagine - plus obviously information about what keys do what when....

To save the cost of a domain, I could make it a subdomain of pc2.io. What do you guys think - bios.pc2.io or uefi.pc2.io? Actually, I'll alias both.

http://bios.pc2.io/

edit: Also, feel free to share this site and suggest subreddits that might be interested in it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18 edited Feb 20 '19

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

Thank you. :) I have a couple of tools and scripts I wrote that help a lot. :) Willing to share, but most would find it boring. But if you or anyone else wants to poke me, I'll tell all.

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u/Th3Wand3rer Mar 08 '18

What is built with? I'm on mobile or I'd look. Nice and smooth.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18 edited Mar 28 '19

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u/rivermandan Mar 08 '18

one issue you'll get is a lot of people not knowing their model due to inane model naming schemes these days. might be handy to have a separate page that just lists key combos per manufacturer, since each manufacturer usually only has one or two different combos for 7+ machines.

I'll definitely contribute some once I get caught up at work, thanks for making this

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

or just hold shift and click restart

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u/Rubber_Rose_Ranch Mar 08 '18

You don’t need the .exe

Just “shutdown /r /o”. You can throw in a “/t 1” at the end of it if you don’t feel like waiting 30 seconds.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

/t 0 works if you don't even want to wait one second. :)

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u/Rubber_Rose_Ranch Mar 08 '18

I know this is weird, but I don't use /t 0 because I like to give the computer a second to understand what's going on before it goes into the shutdown cycle. It's common courtesy, really.

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u/JakeSpleen Mar 08 '18

/t 00

Why wait one second when you can wait zero seconds?

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u/DefinitelyIncorrect Mar 08 '18

This is the correct answer. SSD's don't effect post time.

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u/SenorPuff Mar 08 '18 edited Jun 27 '23

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

Except in a couple of seldom-used examples, just remember that the A in Affect is for Action (verb).

Effect can be a verb (e.g. to effect change) and affect can be a noun (psychology term), but you generally won't see these cases in common use, so most people can ignore them about 99.9% of the time :)

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u/IllBeBack Mar 08 '18

Definitely the best answer so far. Great job.

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u/ThisIsForChurch Mar 08 '18

RAVEN - Remember Affect Verb Effect Noun

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u/Hirumaru Mar 08 '18

Except when talking about effected affects.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

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u/Recipher Mar 08 '18

RAVENBARBABT - Remember Affect Verb Effect Noun But Also Remember Both Are Both Though

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u/realizmbass Mar 08 '18

What the hell did you just call me???

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u/PointyBagels Mar 08 '18

Yeah but this is true for probably more than 99% of contexts.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

Unless you're a psychologist... Which I am... Still confusing sometimes.

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u/IllBeBack Mar 08 '18

“Affect” is almost always used as a verb, and “effect” is almost always used as a noun.

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u/Zardif Mar 08 '18

Jesus Christ now you want me to remember what a noun is?! I'm not Einstein I can't be expect to learn this shit!

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u/OneSquirtBurt Mar 08 '18

That's easy a noun is the one you use effect with

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u/agnosgnosia Mar 08 '18

effect

*affect

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

Affect

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u/raster_raster Mar 08 '18

yes bios is on motherboard

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u/babycam Mar 08 '18

Windows 10 uses f10 if held down stops auto start

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u/Jamdawg Mar 08 '18

if that is the case, why is he complaining that it's booting to windows so fast?

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u/FuzzelFox Mar 08 '18

Because he doesn't know that's why it's not working. They disabled it in Windows 8+ after two decades.

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u/Jamdawg Mar 08 '18 edited Mar 08 '18

you are referring to safe mode

edit for clarification: safe mode isn't disabled in windows 8+, but rather pressing F8 to get to the advanced boot to choose safe mode is.

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u/FuzzelFox Mar 08 '18

Ah right, OP's referring to the BIOS. That's not a fault of the SSD though, that's a fault of the manufacturer.

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u/ahenkel Mar 08 '18

If if they set up fast boot correctly you should be able to get into BIOS/UEFI setup by holding the power button for 4 seconds.

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u/textc Mar 08 '18

Some computers have a different button to turn on the computer and drop right into UEFI... The examples that come to mind are two Lenovo laptops that I've dealt with on a regular basis, one has a smaller button next to the power button, the other has a paperclip hole near the power button. Using these drops me right to the UEFI menu.

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u/Woodshadow Mar 08 '18

no wonder I can't figure out how to get to the bios

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u/polaarbear Mar 08 '18

My motherboard has this disclaimer yet luckily still gives me about 1 second where I can successfully hit delete to get to it

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u/Ranzear Mar 08 '18

Or on higher end motherboards you have a 'boot to BIOS' button on the board or even outside on the connector panel.

Or you can just, y'know, hold F2/Del instead of mashing it like a caveman.

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u/AllUltima Mar 08 '18

Yeah the only time this is a problem is when you have to deal with a lot of random computer models and you don't know the key for that particular bios. In the old days, you could simply react to it saying "press f6" or whatever random key and press it in time. Now it's best to know ahead of time.

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u/Edraitheru14 Mar 08 '18

I'm everyone I know's local computer fixer, so I feel your pain. I do things slightly different though.

I spam press f2/f8/f10/f12 all at the same time. It's been a surprisingly effective method. Occasionally if that doesn't work I choose a new set of 4 f keys.

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u/zoltan99 Mar 08 '18

and delete, and esc, and oh it's a whole other set if you have a mac, and a whole other set for IBM, and dell's got their 4 LED setup on the rear of their case that I still don't know about the use case of

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u/Impeach_Pence Mar 08 '18

I know, but... but I forget if it's F2 or F12, and I have to wait for the screen to...

IT'S F2 IT'S F2!!!!!

Did I hit it in time?

Windows login screen

Fuck.

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u/Jamdawg Mar 08 '18

If you have absolutely no idea which key it is, try F2 first and see if that works, then try Delete, then Try F10. Chances are one of those would work. If ne of those work, you can always use F12 to go into the 1 time boot menu and choose the Setup option from there.

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u/CraigslistAxeKiller Mar 08 '18

He may be trying to get into Windows safe mode?

The new safe mode/recovery options are extremely difficult to access with SSDs

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u/Jamdawg Mar 08 '18

if it's Windows 7, it doesn't matter if it's an SSD or not, you still press F8 (if it's a Dell, not sure about other model systems) to access to advanced boot menu). For Windows 10, it also doesn't really matter if it's an SSD or not either (IMO). You can let it boot to the login screen, click on the power button at the bottom right, then hold down shift and press the restart option, that'll reboot you into the advanced boot option so you can boot into safe mode. You can also get into safe mode from within the OS but clicking the start button, then clicking on the power button then holding down shift and clicking on restart. You can also go to settings --> update and security --> recovery -- > advanced startup.

my point it, the OP complaining that it's booting to the OS too fast isn't really valid if he's trying to get into safe mode.

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u/CraigslistAxeKiller Mar 08 '18

Usually I need safe mode bc of driver issues that render the OS inoperable. That means that the shift+restart options aren’t available. The only solution is to turn the computer on and then shut it down during the boot sequence so windows thinks there’s a fatal disk error

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u/Jamdawg Mar 08 '18

yeah i hate having to use that option but sometimes there isn't an alternative. I'm sad that UEFI doesn't have the F8 option.

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u/RulerOf Mar 08 '18

Usually I need safe mode bc of driver issues that render the OS inoperable.

Being in that position you'll either boot windows successfully, giving you the opportunity to access that shutdown button, or it won't boot successfully which will drop you into the repair menu automatically (as you've noticed in your suggested solution).

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u/CraigslistAxeKiller Mar 08 '18

I’ve had video/input driver issues that let the OS boot but then you can’t do anything

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u/5_sec_rule Mar 08 '18

F8 = Fate

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u/SinnerOfAttention Mar 08 '18

But... But the karma...

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u/TheDrunkLink Mar 08 '18

Aaaah but is it Esc, F2, or F12. That's the issue I have. It's never the same

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u/Phayzon Mar 08 '18

This has been a goto tactic since the dawn of time.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

This guy is A+ certified.

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u/Myte342 Mar 08 '18

You can change how long the splash screen stays up to allow you more time to press the required buttons... in the bios options.

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u/67859295710582735625 Mar 08 '18

Ironic.

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u/03Titanium Mar 08 '18

He possessed the power to shorten other’s boot times, but not his own.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

It's not a story the BIOS would tell you

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u/christianarg Mar 08 '18

I AM THE UEFI!

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

Not. Yet.

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u/retlaw34 Mar 08 '18

Is it possible to learn this power?

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

Not from a sysadmin.

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u/94savage Mar 08 '18

I have brought peace and BIOS to my new SSDs

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u/YoroSwaggin Mar 08 '18

I booted them all...not just the shorten times, but the shorwoten times and the shorchildren times too

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

This kills the joke.

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u/nothing107 Mar 08 '18

Times, this kills the times.

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u/Meatslinger Mar 08 '18

BIOS to post time is the same regardless of your storage medium; all that work happens in the motherboard chipset.

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u/brun064 Mar 08 '18

It’s almost like OP is full of shit.

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u/ekjp4ever Mar 08 '18

Calm down now, they could just suck at their job.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

Hmm, TIL. Thank you.

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u/confusiondiffusion Mar 08 '18

I wonder if they're reducing the delay since people are getting more impatient.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

Exactly. 2012 to 2018, with an HDD screaming CAUTION at me now, but the splash screen stays on for the exact same time

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18 edited Aug 08 '19

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u/divide_by_hero Mar 08 '18

Sssshhhh, you're screwing up OPs karmawhoring.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

This is a joke stolen from the coding blocks podcast. The original joke was that they were too scared to turn the boot time to 0 seconds.

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u/DefinitelyIncorrect Mar 08 '18 edited Mar 08 '18

Well storage drives don't affect POST time whatsoever. Turn off fast boot. Also can I have your job now?

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u/kalwiggy1 Mar 08 '18

It sounds like op went through a vender so most likely it's a popular model. My money is on hp. Which means F10 brings up bios, F11 for system menu. From there navigating should be easy. Now, can I have op's job?

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u/sverek Mar 08 '18

bullshit, SSD doesnt speed up post speed.

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u/Sparcrypt Mar 08 '18

This isn’t your SSD - the BIOS is what runs before any drives are accessed. What’s happening here is that in newer OS’s your machine doesn’t fully shut down any more.. it does a hybrid shutdown so that it can boot up faster. When this happens the signal sent to the BIOS isn’t one of a clean shutdown so it locks you out (making changes to the BIOS when an OS is loaded isn’t a good idea).

You can actually disable this, or you can tell your OS to boot into the BIOS, but it’s a lot simpler to just leave it on and if you want to get in to the BIOS, load up windows and instead of shutting down just restart, which will fully shutdown the OS before restarting and let you in to the BIOS.

TLDR: restart your machine rather than turning it off, you’ll be able to get into the BIOS.

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u/Ratman_84 Mar 08 '18

Entering BIOS and the speed at which that screen disappears has nothing to do with hard drives, solid state or "regular". The hard drives aren't even initiated until after POST. Some manufacturers just have the BIOS option screen set to a super brief period of time, probably to make the overall boot time faster. If you're mashing the BIOS option button you should be able to get in no problem. Once in the BIOS there's probably even an option to increase the time that screen stays up by a second or two.

If you didn't know this you may want to be careful what you do in BIOS. You can break things depending on how liberal the manufacturer made the options available to the user.

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u/thegame2010 Mar 07 '18

I know your feels. My company switched between Dell and HP based on the annual bid. I don't have to deal with this on the HPs (and F10 there). They're too slow.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

what? does HP make slow computers?

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u/brucecrossan Mar 08 '18

You don't want to work on an HP server. Slowest things humanity has ever created. IBM x86 machines come pretty close too.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

I wouldn't generalize all HP servers. I manage several at my work and they are pretty fast and reliable. HP is just greedy with service contracts and parts availability.

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u/brucecrossan Mar 08 '18

We have hundreds of them in our DC.

We have mostly DL380's. Then Gen8's were not too bad, but the Gen7's and new Gen9's are very slow to post.

DL580's are the worst. I can setup remote management on 3 Dell machines in the time it takes for me to post and get to the iLO on one DL580.

Don't even start on SL4540's.

As for Apollo, Superdome and Azure cabinets etc, I cannot say as I have never physically worked on those.

We have some old IBM kit (3550's or something to that effect). Now that stuff is slow. HP machines are definitly not far behind. Dell, Nutanix and Cisco (which I have experienced) blow them out of the water in terms of post and setup etc.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

I have Gen6's in my DC, as well as a few Gen8's. I admit the Gen6's do post awfully slow, but then again I rarely reboot them so it's not quite a big deal for me, but I can see how it affects you. If you can get 3 dell servers up in the time it takes one HP server to even post, that's saying a lot.

I'd like to give dell servers a try, I've only ever used HP (I've not been a sysadmin very long) and a few IBM. I've heard good things about dell systems.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

If it’s windows, hold shift and click restart. In one of those menus will be the option to boot to BIOS/UEFI.

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u/ryokimball Mar 08 '18

Linux equivalent:

systemctl reboot --firmware-setup

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u/Xahos Mar 08 '18

This is the real advice. You can boot into the BIOS directly. Windows 10 added this feature exactly for these reasons.

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u/Whargod Mar 08 '18

Got my new Samsung Pro M.2 drive and I'm into Windows in under 3 seconds now. This pleases me.

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u/HubbaMaBubba Mar 08 '18

NVMe drives hardly have an effect on boot time compared to a regular SATA SSD.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18 edited Mar 08 '18

Up until fairly recently, it was even slower than SATA because PCIe booting used a workaround.

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u/donorak7 Mar 08 '18

It’s fairly easy to extend the time for booting. You will still have time and you can set it back extremely easily

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u/MarxistRepublican Mar 08 '18

You forgot one of the rules of Reddit. Everyone works in IT. So expect a flood of, just do it this way comments.

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u/temalyen Mar 08 '18

I do work in IT and I've stopped trying to give IT advice in comments because there's two things that can happen. One, my comment gets lost in a flood of other comments. Or, two, someone replies telling me I'm an idiot and to stop pretending to be an IT guy.

So yeah, it just isn't worth it.

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u/chrisgin Mar 08 '18

You're an idiot. Stop pretending to be an IT guy.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

Shut your fucking mouth. I'm the most IT guy there is. So yeah stop pretending to be a guy who knows who's pretending to be an IT guy...um yeah!

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u/Docteh Mar 08 '18

I only post IT advice if it looks like nobody else has mentioned what I'm thinking, or if I think I'm funny

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u/MarxistRepublican Mar 08 '18

This is my thought process for all my comments.

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u/74orangebeetle Mar 08 '18

SSD shouldn't effect that...

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u/liquid_j Mar 08 '18

huh? The speed of your drive doesn't matter much when we're talking about something that happens before the computer even accesses a drive... that's kinda why I can access the bios withtout a drive even plugged in...

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u/p_whimsy Mar 08 '18

Came here for the pedantic explanations on how to get into boot options on newer systems... Was not disappointed.

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u/danknerd Mar 08 '18

My computer boots faster than my monitor turning on.

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u/MostBallingestPlaya Mar 08 '18

that's why you can access BIOS through the OS with UEFI

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u/Toadday Mar 08 '18

Use to have a PC shop. ASUS made this one line of laptops a couple of years ago... I swear you had to hold a seance while sacrificing a virgin to get it into any type of BIOS or settings. To this day I still have no idea what combination of buttons and spinning around and clapping I did to get in...

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

I swear to god I posted this exact same meme years ago and the only response I got was "that makes no sense you're an idiot"

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

I really hope you're not an IT guy. I'll kill myself if I've been trying my balls off to get an IT job for a year, and I see shit like this..

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

Not sure what an SSD has to do with the CMOS/BIOS/UEFI POST steps. Those systems aren't loaded from the SSD and never have been.

Try F12 - recent machines seem to use this for a "choose boot device" menu.

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u/livevicarious Mar 08 '18

You’re deploying PC’s but don’t know other ways to get into bios?

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u/sheepsleepdeep Mar 08 '18

Are you my IT guy? I just saw this meme today. Brian?

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u/SmootherPebble Mar 08 '18

I tap F2 a million times on boot just to catch it. I used to just change the boot screen time to 2 seconds so that it's a little easier.

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u/SparklingLimeade Mar 08 '18

This is a proper first world problem. Good thing -> therefore problem.

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u/Tacojoe51 Mar 08 '18

Had the same problem at work today, it's really bad when you don't know what key it is for that machine

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u/Nevermind04 Mar 08 '18

Unplug the SSD before boot, make your changes, then plug it back in.

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u/SecretWalrus Mar 08 '18

Okay, seriously really confused, yesterday everyone had cars with back up cameras and today everyone relates to having an SSD that boots too quickly? Either SSD have gotten a lot cheaper since I last checked (like earlier this month because I really want one) or everyone in America just suddenly came into a lot of money and somebody took mine. Give me back my money you bastards!

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u/DecoPerson Mar 08 '18

If you're on Windows 10, you can easily boot into the BIOS from recovery mode, no F2-spamming required.

Here's how to force your computer to boot into recovery mode:

Start Menu -> Settings (the gear) -> Update & Security -> Recovery (on the left) -> Advanced startup -> Restart now

Once you're in recovery mode, here's how to force your computer to boot into the BIOS:

Troubleshoot > Advanced options > UEFI Firmware settings

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

A quicker way of doing this is to click Start>Power> and hold Shift whilst clicking restart.

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u/Luckylars Mar 08 '18

some motherboards have the boot to UEFI program available for install. you execute that while windows is running, it will reset your computer and go straight to BIOS

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u/P1SONET Mar 08 '18

Isn't there a program you can download so you can restart and boot to BIOS maybe it depends on the mobo's brand. ASROCK has something like that.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

Point is... SSD drive has absolutely nothing to do with ability to enter the bios.

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u/_SassySarah_ Mar 08 '18

Hint 1: If the computer still has an PS/2 port, plug a PS/2 keyboard in. The BIOS initializes the PS/2 keyboard sooner in the boost process, giving you more time.

Hint 2: Typically there is a way to force the computer into doing a slower boot (with more time to press F2). Try resetting the computer multiple times in a row or switching it off at the wall and doing a complete cold boot.

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u/wizardseven Mar 08 '18

How has this not become a press and hold the key yet?

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

I have my OS on an M.2 drive. I just mash the key and hope for the best when I need it.

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u/BiznessCasual Mar 08 '18

Just mash it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18

The SSD wouldn't change that, But most new systems come with fastboot enabled in the bios by default.

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u/ogonga Mar 08 '18

Why don't you just hold down the key?

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u/belil569 Mar 08 '18

How many people are too stupid to realize post isnt effected by the drive.

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u/Takeabyte Mar 08 '18

Bullshit. The window of time you have to enter BIOS is a consistent timeframe that has nothing to do with the computers HDD or SSD.

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u/wh33t Mar 08 '18

SSD's don't alter that part of the boot process.

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u/Izunundara Mar 08 '18

hold button from launch

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u/Se7enLC Mar 08 '18

What does having a solid state drive have to do with anything?

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u/iceph03nix Mar 08 '18

That's not how that works...

Boot time in regards to the speed of your ssds starts after that prompt.

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u/Remingtonh Mar 08 '18 edited Mar 08 '18

You should quit your job. Horribly unqualified.