I have had not problems in the past entering the BIOS. Del key does the trick. I am finally looking at Win 10 since the free window is getting close.
When I reboot the Del key will not get me to the BIOS. F2 and F8 do nothing.
I was sure I had hibernate disabled, and according to my research on the problem should also disable fastboot. My understanding is that using fastboot can cause this issue.
There is no hiberfile on any of my drives. I went through power settings, but could not find entries for fastboot or hibernate. I used some methods from sevenforums and nothing changed. I used both the hibernate an fastboot disabling procedures.
I have not found anything else I can try. One errant thought hit me; is MS messing around with < win10 machines to "get them ready for Win 10)? I have seen suggestions they are doing something alond these lines. I have noticed a couple of times in the recent past that my explorer views changed from details to icons without me doing anything I thought might impact that.
One possible change I can think of that would cause this is if secure boot was enabled. I believe that is a "requirement" for Win 10. Although other sources say enabling it is not actually required; simply that the machine has to be capable of it to get a Win 10 sticker on the case.
I am not an expert. Any suggestions (except that I should become an expert )?
