He says that machines that come with Windows 8 are not recommended to be rolled back. Remove the hard drive and set aside. Aside from making me look bad, this was an egregious waste of time. The user can access the menu and select the option that works well for the desirable tasks in seconds. If this laptop is 4gb and you need 32gb for photoshop or gaming then use it to that.
Not to mention the backlight bleed all over the bottom of the screen. Would you like to answer one of these instead? I've heard their tech support is brutal too. No one here has mentioned requiring the drivers. You can try them if you have no user manual around. When Lenovo logo appears on screen, press F12 to enter Boot Device Options. I just got 5 of these for my company and am having the same issues. If this ends of being the case, I am going to unleash a web forum onslaught everywhere I can about this issue.
. The usb drive finally appeared just after I hit Ctrl+Atl+Del after boot. I've read all the topics I can find on the topic of installing on this particular machine to no avail. I looked at this post. .
After the drive is as dry as possible, you can let it sit for a while and air out if you have doubts. Assess the inside of the unit for water damage and do you best to dry it out by allowing a non-shedding towel to soak up the water. I can't believe I can't even do a clean wipe on the machine. Thread starter Similar threads Forum Replies Date 0 Apr 27, 2019 3 Mar 24, 2019 0 Feb 11, 2019 1 Feb 7, 2019 1 Feb 1, 2019 1 Jan 31, 2019 0 Jan 30, 2019 1 Jan 28, 2019 0 Jan 25, 2019 0 Jan 24, 2019 3 Jan 23, 2019 3 Jan 18, 2019 1 Jan 17, 2019 0 Nov 12, 2018 1 Apr 17, 2016 1 May 9, 2015 1 Mar 24, 2015 3 May 9, 2014 5 Mar 1, 2014 2 Jan 22, 2014. You can try again to get the right one. The boot tab shows that Fast Boot is Enabled. It tells me I need to put in the installation media through disc or flash drive.
Any assistance to boot from disc greatly appreciated! If the cushion on the inside of the drive is wet, remove it and let it dry. I'm going to call Asus back right now and raise hell. So i formated the lap. . Step 2: Power on or restart computer. It immediately goes to that error. Flip the unit upright again and peel the keyboard and palm rest up until removed.
You do need to have them plugged in on boot as it happens so fast , but messing around with the boot order as I mentioned previously became unnecessary. I hope that my experince its helpful for you. You do not mention which 2nd operating system you are trying to boot so I can only assume it's a Linux distribution. When Acer logo appears on screen, press F12 to enter Boot Device Options. Press and hold the F2 button, then click the power button. It turns out that Win 8. It appears that computers that were built to use Windows 8 don't have the Bios that we are most familiar with.
I have also read you need to make sure you have the relevant Windows 7 drivers available which I can get from the Asus website. I then discovered that the disk was not running. Once I did this, it was pretty smooth sailing. You can find the Boot Option Key for your computer from the following table. I have tried everything that I know of to fix this. For that, see this tutorial below instead. .
Because it has attracted low-quality or spam answers that had to be removed, posting an answer now requires 10 on this site the. Did anyone have any driver issues or did all just work? Thanks esc is what helped me out, I couldn't select the option in the first solution. Next I tried building a Windows 7 Thumb Drive, which the computer notices in the Boot Menu but does not boot to it, goes right into the Asus Windows 8 startup logo. A Confusing issue is that what you see on each tab is not always the same. Model: K55V I figured it out, and I'll post here for reference. This is the only option I get when I click Add New Boot Option.
. Therefore I had to reverse the change mentioned above, i. It was as if the booting sequence was too fast for my Usb drive. This thread helped me a lot. Not the answer you're looking for? My computer is also an asus X55V. This will scan the system as a whole for detecting virus.
I have tried disabling Secure Boot Control but it didn't have any effect when I restarted. This page here: was the best help I found. Browse other questions tagged or. How can they do that? So I'm stuck with 4gb. Initially it turned on but Windows 8 wouldn't accept the correct password, and the keyboard was faulty. See my full comment above. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I bought this laptop specifically to run Ubuntu.