Acer Aspire 3 A314-21, installed windows 10 32 bit on a working 120gb SSD cant access BIOS
Hi, I bought this second hand, meanwhile the seller has vanished from ebay
I can't access bios (esc and F2)
installed windows 10 32 bit on a working 120gb SSD
At the boot it says it found it but when I click on it I get 'no bootable disk'
Is there a way to get into the bios?
Thank you.
[Edited the thread to add issue detail]
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This laptop is designed for Windows 10 64-bit, no 32-bit compatible drivers/BIOS are available. Also, if you have more than 4 GBs of RAM installed, it won't be recognized by 32-bit Windows 10. I recommend installing W10 64-bit.
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Try F12 options - To Select Different Boot device on Acer Laptop, if it works!
After that try using Bootable USB or Live Ubuntu USB Bootable to move forward…… Best of LUCK!
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Thank you very much, sorry for the delay. I had to buy a new SSD first. I unplugged the Kingston SD from the motherboard in the hope it would solve the problem. Unfortunately the problem is not the SD but the bios that's protected by a password which I don't know. So, I don't see how to resolve this if I can't access the bios.
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Well, it's solved. Installed a win10 64bit on the new SSD and for some weird reason the notebook started to run smoothly. No password needed. Welcome in the land of windows mysteries. Thanks for your time and service.
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