Searching for ” How to open BIOS in windows 10” then you landed in a right place, in this article you are going to see the easiest ways to open your Windows BIOS.

BIOS offers integral changes like how your computer turns on, pre-boot security options, what the fn key does, boot order of your drives. BIOS is connected to the motherboard of your computer and controls most of the things of your system, before opening your BIOS, let’s see about BIOS in detail:

What is BIOS?

BIOS – Basic input/output system

It is a program that is stored on your computer’s motherboard that controls various devices of your computer such as hard disk, keyboard, mouse, etc. It uses to start the computer after powered ON. So, it looks like bringing life into your system. In greek Bios means “life“.

BIOS software is used in computers since the 1980s and progresses continuously inefficiently and improving.

Types of BIOS

There are 2 types of BIOS, UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) used on modern PC and Legacy BIOS used on a computer with older motherboards.

BIOS Features

BIOS is independent of your operating system so even you have a problem with your operating system, you still manage to get into your BIOS settings page.

In BIOS menu settings, you will see the system specification, processor name, memory, PC health status, and much more information. There you can see in many tabs:

Advanced Tab: In this, you can enable and disable functions like virtualization on USB emulation, network adapter, USB ports, etc.

Security Tab: In this, you can choose what level of security you want for your BIOs and for storage devices.

Boot Tab: It enables and disables your boot devices and also sets BIOS settings.

Exit Tab: Used to save and discard any changes you made to your BIOS settings, in this tab you can also reset all settings back to default.

Use Enter key to select, Escape key to exit, F10 to save, F1 to help, and F9 to load defaults. It varies for different models and BIOS versions.

How to open Bios/UEFI in Windows 10?

Method 1:

Open BIOS in Windows 10 using Settings

Step 1: Click on the Start menu, and open the ‘Settings‘ option in your window system

Step 2: After that click on ‘Update & Security‘

Step 3: Now, on the left side, you can see the ‘Recovery‘ open it

Step 4: At the bottom, you can see the ‘Restart now‘ option, click on it

Step 5: After restart, you can see the Advanced Startup screen there select ‘Troubleshoot‘ option available in the menu

Step 6: Now click on the ‘Advanced option‘, then click on ‘UEFI Firmware Settings‘ available on the screen

Step 7: Finally, click on the ‘Restart‘ button

As soon you click on the “Restart” button, it makes a computer to restart again and now forces it to open the BIOS or UEFI firmware screen. Now, you can do whatever changes you want to do in your BIOS and at-last restart the system. It automatically now open your system in Windows.

Here your first method on “How to open BIOS with Settings” ends.

Method 2:

Press and Hold Power Button

This is another method to open BIOS in your window and it is the easiest method to open the BIOS or UEFI firmware just by using the system power button. The power button we are talking about here is a button that is used to start the CPU or laptop.

Follow the steps carefully:

Step 1: First, shut down your system.

Step 2: After complete shutdown, press the power button for some seconds( 4 seconds)

Step 3: Now, your computer will automatically start and open the BIOS or UEFI screen.

Make changes whatever you want to then restart it again and you see it automatically boot into Windows.

Now you’re done with a quick method of opening BIOS in Windows 10 using the power button.

Method 3:

Open BIOS using a Hotkey

Well, some old computers have the option to enter the BIOS using an Fn key available on the keyboard. To enter into BIOS mode you have to press F1, F2 key just after pressing the power button of the computer.

How to open:

Step 1: Press the power button to start your system

Step 2: As soon as the screen show, start pressing BIOS hotkey (hotkey given below according to your system)

Step 3: Repeat tapping hotkey until you reach the setup mode (Important step)

Step 4: If you press it correctly you will soon see the BIOS menu screen.

Now, you’re done with this method of Opening windows BIOS using hotkey start modify the system settings you want to make.

Different hotkey keys for different companies to open BIOS, choose yours:

• Acer: press F2 or DEL
• Asus: F2 for all PCs, F2 or DEL for motherboards
• Dell: press F2 or F12
• HP: press ESC or F10
• Lenovo: F2 or Fn + F2
• And Lenovo (Desktops): press F1
• Lenovo (Think Pads): press Enter + F1.
• MSI: press DEL for motherboards and PCs
• Microsoft Surface Tablets: Press and hold the volume up button
• Origin PC: F2
• Samsung: press F2
• Sony: F1, F2, or F3
• Toshiba: F2 key

Method 4

Access BIOS from Command prompt

Step 1: Turn off your computer by pressing and holding the power button

Step 2: You have to wait for at least 3 seconds and then press the F8 key to open the BIOS prompt

Step 3: Use the arrow button to move and the ‘Enter‘ button to select an option

Step 4: Alter options using the keys on your keyboard

Now, you’re done with all 4 ways to get into BIOS in windows 10.

Conclusion

That’s it for now guys these are the best ways to open/enter into BIOS in window 10. If you want to do customization on BIOS then make sure you are also aware, if you did something wrong it affects your system. However, if you get stuck or need any help comment below, TechDevilZone will try to help you as much as possible.

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