Lost ability to boot into BIOS

[michael.woosle157502e6]

Good evening everyone. About 10 days ago, I built my new PC with the Z790-P wifi DDR4 motherboard, 48gb ram, two M.2 NVMW drives (one for windows 11, one for Linux), and a MSI video card. The build has gone very good all the way thru the Windows install up until last night when I decided to try the Ubuntu install on the second M.2 drive. I setup a bootable thumbdrive with Ubuntu 24.04 and set the BIOS to boot to it. The setup went fine, except the software did not ask for a bootload option, which I thought was going to create a problem. After the setup was complete, it had me remove the flashdrive and reboot the PC. The PC rebooted to Windows. No problem, but I expected the option to boot to Linux "OR" Windows. So I restarted the PC and RETRIED to boot into the BIOS but COULD NOT. Up to this point, no matter what I do, I cannot log into the BIOS of this machine.... F2 does nothing, F12 does nothing, DEL does nothing.... I have no access to my BIOS anymore. Would you please advise me how to fix this problem as I am perplexed.

Thank you.

 

[KripTed]

Maybe clearing the CMOS might work? If you can still get into Windows, try holding SHIFT then clicking Restart. This will bring you to Windows Boot options next time it starts. I think you can access the BIOS in one of those settings. I think it's under Troubleshoot > Advanced Options > UEFI Firmware Settings.

 

[pandaz]

Try to clear CMOS or Try to plug out your Storage drive should do the trick

 

[massbred815f902e9]

prolly turned off keyboard during post. so pull the cmos battery n u should be able to get back in. if not. try flashing bios with button on back worked for me.

 

[kc.cool.mcs125902a0]

Try turning on the PC without the keyboard plugged in, and plug it in immediately after you turn the PC on and try to get into BIOS. I'm running into a similar issue, curious if you have the same issue.