If you power off the computer, then turn it on and hammer the Delete and F2 keys repeatedly does it go into the BIOS?Does this work? It is a PC Specialist build but I bought it from Currys.View attachment 36680
You don't hold them, that won't work, you have to keep pressing them repeatedlyNo, it doesn't send me to the BIOS if I hold F2 and del.
So how do I enable the secure boot state?
It can only do advanced startup if it's configured for uefi boot which has the uefi boot partition on the hard drive.There is another way to get into advanced startup - and the BIOS.
Open a command prompt. Enter the command shutdown /r /o /f /t 00 (the /r switch tells the system to restart, the /o switch tells the system to restart in advanced startup mode, the /f switch forces all running apps to close, and the /t 00 switch says shutdown now). Windows will shutdown and restart into Advanced Startup mode.
BTW. Have you made any BIOS changes previously? If so what did you change?
And then type 'cmd' without quotesTo open command prompt its win key + r, right?
It doesn't have uefi partition as it doesn't load into bios from advanced start. It's never been setup with uefi boot. If this is in fact from Currys then yes it wasn't installed correctly.But it's from Curry's, surely PCS install Windows on those builds?
When I ussed the command it went into a blank screen but I had to manually press space for it to load into the login screen, the PC is working as it should be, I just wanted to enable security boot since popular game Valorant apparently needed it to be "on". I have continuously updated windows since the purchase but never upgraded or reinstalled to my knowledge.So....you were in Windows, you issued the shutdown command, Windows restarted...and now you have no display?
Was this system working OK before this episode?
Has Windows been reinstalled or upgraded since you bought it?