Unable to enter BIOS
Hi. I am trying to reinstall Windows on my Gf laptop; an Acer Aspire V5-531, model MS2361. At select which HDD to install Windows, it denied the install onto that harddrive since it was GPT partisjon, so I try to reformat the HDD, that didnt work, so I tried a tip from the internet:
"diskpart
List disk
Select disk
Clean
Exit"
I then reformated the HDD
This trick let me proceed but after it was done unpacking the file from the DVD, i got an error code 0x80070017. After a quick google search it sand i had to fiddle the bot sequence of the DVD drive to make it compaitible, but noe I cant access the BIOS. I press F2 at boot, but it only goes to "click a Key to boot to drive" and then to Windows install. If I DONT have the cd on I Get a long screen of text saying "PXE-e61: media test failure, Chess cabel"
So what do I do at this point?
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i would check if the DVD has any scratch and i would create an USB windows media installation to avoid this kind of problems.
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it works fine on my other PC, I jsut tried, and I cant boot from my USB since I can't change the boot order without entering the BIOS xD
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it would boot from USB if it's before the boot from lan.
Have you tried to press F12 to select the bootable device?
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your V5 had windows 8 as default OS?
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I have, before my first attempt I did access the BIOS and set it to CD/DVD as #1
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It had W7, but it does not have anything atm. Just a empty HDD
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If I remove the Windows CD, it will boot to this and then to no OS and then just back and forth between those images
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normal behaviour, since BIOS looks for a bootable device and it halts on LAN boot (PXE message)
can you take of the battery, unplug AC adapter and press power button for 10-20 seconds, then put everything back and hold F2 while pressing power button.
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Nothing
Still same. Will maybe removing the CMOS help? 
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CMOS for sure will reset the BIOS, so if you are able to open the notebook....
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Me and my friend will get our screwdrivers tomorrow, will update then
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Try to boot from USB if possible, before opening the notebook.
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No need to tear it apart. The reason you can't enter the BIOS is the computer goes into a fast boot mode when you push the power button. To access the BIOS, just watch the following video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7o5a5v5HX4Oh, and in case your wondering what that PXE error is all about. PXE or (PIXIE) is how you would boot from a network. It's actually how I do a majority of my installs. A PXE error means that it didn't see any network boot commands from your network card. Obviously if your not setup to boot from a network then you will get that error. If your interested in doing a pixie boot install, I'd recommend using a program called "SERVA"
http://www.vercot.com/~serva/default.html
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