How to acess bios on acer aspire v5 571g

damonmoore
damonmoore Member Posts: 19 Troubleshooter
edited December 2021 in Aspire Laptops
So I recently reset the bios cause I couldnt get into it in the first place when I got this aspire v5, however resetting seems to have enabled uefi and fast boot meaning it boots to quick for me to press f2 and on top of that it always says "no operating system found" even when I have a uefi usb of windows 8, already tried shorting the contacts underneath the 2nd dimm slot to reset the bios but no luck at all

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  • Leostat
    Leostat ACE Posts: 3,043 Pathfinder
    with fast boot you just need to spam F2 after hitting power, it doesnt tell you but it still will register and drop you into the bios, some laptops its hold F2 then power rather than spam F2 
  • damonmoore
    damonmoore Member Posts: 19 Troubleshooter
    Leostat said:
    with fast boot you just need to spam F2 after hitting power, it doesnt tell you but it still will register and drop you into the bios, some laptops its hold F2 then power rather than spam F2 
    Just tried both and still the same message of "operating system not found" 
  • Leostat
    Leostat ACE Posts: 3,043 Pathfinder
    Maybe under Escape +f2 or Escape + F12/10? Its odd its not dropping you into it though
  • damonmoore
    damonmoore Member Posts: 19 Troubleshooter
    Leostat said:
    Maybe under Escape +f2 or Escape + F12/10? Its odd its not dropping you into it though
    Exact same result as before, black screen saying it cant find a os
  • Leostat
    Leostat ACE Posts: 3,043 Pathfinder
    is there a CMOS battery? You could try pulling that for a min, and re-inserting. This wipes it back to the ROM settings, failing that im not 100% sure im afraid :(
  • damonmoore
    damonmoore Member Posts: 19 Troubleshooter
    Leostat said:
    is there a CMOS battery? You could try pulling that for a min, and re-inserting. This wipes it back to the ROM settings, failing that im not 100% sure im afraid :(
    There is a CMOS battery that I've already tried boot both with and without
  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 34,013 Trailblazer
    It is F2 to enter the BIOS but unless you've installed Linux you should have a few seconds to get it in. Just keep trying...
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