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Just hold down shift in windows then press restart and you should get an option to boot into UEFI.

 

Or grab MSI Fastboot app from their support site, it'll be listed in the Utilities section on your boards support page. Install it and it'll give you a button on your desktop to reboot into UEFI.

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Hi there :D

I built my new PC a couple weeks ago. I started setting up everything and stuff like that. Everything went fine. But now onto my actual problem. After one week I decided to run both of my HDDs in RAID 1 for redundancy. I wanted to go into the BIOS by hitting Del on startup. But I was not able to open it up. I wasn't able to get into the boot menu either. So I was wondering what I could do about that. A couple things: It worked before / I don't know if there's any option to disable the hotkeys, neither do I know if I changed any of these / My motherboard: MSI A78M-35

I hope you can help me out, thank you in advance! :)

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Hi there :D

I built my new PC a couple weeks ago. I started setting up everything and stuff like that. Everything went fine. But now onto my actual problem. After one week I decided to run both of my HDDs in RAID 1 for redundancy. I wanted to go into the BIOS by hitting Del on startup. But I was not able to open it up. I wasn't able to get into the boot menu either. So I was wondering what I could do about that. A couple things: It worked before / I don't know if there's any option to disable the hotkeys, neither do I know if I changed any of these / My motherboard: MSI A78M-35

I hope you can help me out, thank you in advance! :)

1) Always put your complete systems specs in a troubleshooting thread. It helps a lot.

2) Make sure you click on the "follow" option for all your threads so that you know if someone replies, even if they don't quote you.

3) Are you spamming the BIOS entry key during startup? If you are running Win 8/8.1 or 10 it is possible that it will go past the post screen so fast that you won't be able to hit the BIOS entry key in time.

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1) Always put your complete systems specs in a troubleshooting thread. It helps a lot.

2) Make sure you click on the "follow" option for all your threads so that you know if someone replies, even if they don't quote you.

3) Are you spamming the BIOS entry key during startup? If you are running Win 8/8.1 or 10 it is possible that it will go past the post screen so fast that you won't be able to hit the BIOS entry key in time.

Can't you see my system specs if you go on my profile?

Yes, I've tried spamming and just pressing it one time. I'm on Windows 7 btw. It worked before by just pressing it one time :)

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Can't you see my system specs if you go on my profile?

Yes, I've tried spamming and just pressing it one time. I'm on Windows 7 btw. It worked before by just pressing it one time :)

Yes, I could see them if I go to your profile, but if you don't post it in the OP then every single person that want's to help you will have to go to your profile to look at it instead of just reading the post/scrolling up. If you read the sticky for the Troubleshooting forum it is stated that you need to always post your system specs in the OP. It saves people a lot of time, and you are likely to get more help if they don't have to go hunting your system specs.

 

If you just cannot get it no matter what, try resetting your CMOS.

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I've already tried those. By the way, it says that it is Del on the boot / MSI logo screen

 

 

did you turn on quick boot?

This ^.  If you turned on ^Quick Boot^ then you will probably have to reset your CMOS to get in.

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Yes I did. Does it prevent me from going into the BIOS? If so, is there a way to turn it off again?

reset the CMOS. either reseat the jumper or reove that MoBo battery and put it back in.

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Yes I did. Does it prevent me from going into the BIOS? If so, is there a way to turn it off again?

I does in a way, by skipping the bios key enter stage on boot, I'm not sure if you can reset it without reseting the bios, to do that either remove the motherboard battery to clear the cmos or flash the cmos with a piece of metal between the pins

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Just hold down shift in windows then press restart and you should get an option to boot into UEFI.

 

Or grab MSI Fastboot app from their support site, it'll be listed in the Utilities section on your boards support page. Install it and it'll give you a button on your desktop to reboot into UEFI.

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