ASUS laptop boots into Automatic Repair, can't boot into BIOS/UEFI

[djdelarosa25]

My friend asked me to fix his ASUS laptop. He said it wasn't booting up. Sure enough, it boots straight into Automatic Repair, and after that, it goes into this error screen.



I went into the ASUS website to learn how to boot the thing up into the BIOS/UEFI in order to set it to boot from the flash drive that has Windows 8.1 installation media. It stated to shut it down, hold the F2 key, and press the power button. Alas, nothing happened: it still boots up into Automatic Repair.

Could you guys help me out?

[kb5zue]

Don't just press the F2 key, you have to spam the key.  Repeated pressing the key.  Sort of like jumping on a trampoline, bing, bing, bing, bing.   And then if that doesn't work, get yourself a USB flashdrive with the Windows Media Creation tool on it and try to do a clean, fresh install of Windows to see if that works.