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Question posted by terrygrady on April 21st, 2012

F2 Will Not Work On Boot To Change Bios

When I press F2 on boot to change bios settings nothing happens. It just carries on to boot. Also the same when I press F8 or F12./ It is not the key board as when I press Esc to watch boot progess on the same page it works.

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