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Bananington (OP)
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August 19, 2011, 03:36:28 AM
Last edit: August 19, 2011, 07:16:39 PM by Bananington |
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The button to access my boot menu is F8 as described in the manual for my Asus motherboard. Everytime I boot my system I tap or hold the shit out of F8 to always arrive at a screen that is labelled "Windows 7 Boot Loader" or something. I need to boot from removable devices so I can run test out LinuxCoin. Any suggestions? Please don't ask me to edit the boot device priority in the BIOS because that isn't a solution, it's a workaround. Thank you.  EDIT: I found the solution and you can read it here. |
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pekv2
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August 19, 2011, 03:41:09 AM |
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Have you tried F12? Or any other Fkey?
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Bananington (OP)
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August 19, 2011, 03:43:41 AM |
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Have you tried F12? Or any other Fkey?
Not really because my motherboard manual shows me with pictures and everything(lol) telling to press F8 for the boot menu. |
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pekv2
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August 19, 2011, 03:47:26 AM |
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Have you tried F12? Or any other Fkey?
Not really because my motherboard manual shows me with pictures and everything(lol) telling to press F8 for the boot menu. Humor yourself, try all F key's possible, F1 through F12. |
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Bananington (OP)
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August 19, 2011, 03:48:02 AM |
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Have you tried F12? Or any other Fkey?
Not really because my motherboard manual shows me with pictures and everything(lol) telling to press F8 for the boot menu. Humor yourself, try all F key's possible, F1 through F12. Gimme 20 minutes. |
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joulesbeef
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August 19, 2011, 03:58:29 AM |
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it probably is f8.. i dont know why asus did that for a while.
sometimes in the bios, you can turn that key on an off.
I'd turn off anything that says fast boot.(edit dotn think it is called fast boot that is their new thing.. but it is like quick boot or something along those lines.. turn off any splash screens as well)
and look in the area where you select boot order for the disable enable boot menu hotkey command.(kinda rare)
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Bananington (OP)
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August 19, 2011, 04:15:44 AM |
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Have you tried F12? Or any other Fkey?
Not really because my motherboard manual shows me with pictures and everything(lol) telling to press F8 for the boot menu. Humor yourself, try all F key's possible, F1 through F12. Gimme 20 minutes. Results: F1-F9 = Bootloader or Advanced Bootmenu(safe mode and stuff like that for windows) ESC = Restarts the boot process F10 = Edit Boot Option page F11 = Disk Read Error Press yada yada yada to restart F12 = Windows just boots normally(no effect) DEL = BIOS it probably is f8.. i dont know why asus did that for a while.
sometimes in the bios, you can turn that key on an off.
I'd turn off anything that says fast boot.(edit dotn think it is called fast boot that is their new thing.. but it is like quick boot or something along those lines.. turn off any splash screens as well)
and look in the area where you select boot order for the disable enable boot menu hotkey command.(kinda rare)
I do have fast boot enabled. Let me go disable it. |
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Bananington (OP)
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August 19, 2011, 04:30:59 AM |
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I disabled quick boot and it did not solve the problem. I still cannot access the proper boot menu.
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pekv2
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August 19, 2011, 04:34:10 AM |
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Hmmm.... I wonder. This problem gots my head spinning. See I had an Asus board as well, and the boot menu key gave me problems as well but this was back in 2007, asus P5N32-E SLI, thats why I suggested try all F keys. Maybe windows7 is somehow messing with it.
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Bananington (OP)
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August 19, 2011, 04:36:15 AM |
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Hmmm.... I wonder. This problem gots my head spinning. See I had an Asus board as well, and the boot menu key gave me problems as well but this was back in 2007, asus P5N32-E SLI, thats why I suggested try all F keys. Maybe windows7 is somehow messing with it.
That's what I thought. I had an issue with some emachines not letting me access to the boot menu because they wanted me to start Windows without shutting it down mid-boot. Basically the error screen wanting to come up was preventing me from bringing up the boot menu. The solution was to let windows start up completely and the restart. |
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Bananington (OP)
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August 19, 2011, 04:45:36 AM |
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What model do you have?
M4A89TD PRO/USB3 |
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pekv2
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August 19, 2011, 04:57:18 AM |
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Temp solution I might have come up with, unplug the win7 hdd/ssd, insert the linuxcoin usb, hit f8.
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Bananington (OP)
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August 19, 2011, 05:00:28 AM |
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Temp solution I might have come up with, unplug the win7 hdd/ssd, insert the linuxcoin usb, hit f8.
I'm sure that will work. But I don't want to do that everytime I want to boot from a different device. I want my boot menu.  |
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pekv2
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August 19, 2011, 05:11:07 AM |
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Ok, the one to half of a sec after post, I'm thinking you gotta be quick on this, try del, even though I seen you tried, you said it took you into bios but did you try del, milliseconds after boot posting?
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Other than that, I know it is windows7 messing with you and I don't have a solution.
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Bananington (OP)
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August 19, 2011, 05:53:40 AM |
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Ok, the one to half of a sec after post, I'm thinking you gotta be quick on this, try del, even though I seen you tried, you said it took you into bios but did you try del, milliseconds after boot posting?
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Other than that, I know it is windows7 messing with you and I don't have a solution.
It didn't work. I have my HDD encrypted with BitLocker. Maybe that is the issue. I'll suspend the protection and reboot. |
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Bananington (OP)
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August 19, 2011, 06:05:34 AM |
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That didn't work either. Does anyone have any idea why Windows 7 is being selfish?
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Jack of Diamonds
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August 19, 2011, 12:45:21 PM |
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Holding down ctrl indefinitely (right after booting up) works on every modern motherboard.
It just isn't very widely documented.
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staraptor
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August 19, 2011, 02:25:10 PM |
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are you pressing f8 too late? bios loads before os, so it's probably user error
start mashing the f8 key once you turn the system on
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pekv2
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August 19, 2011, 04:02:58 PM |
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Holding down ctrl indefinitely (right after booting up) works on every modern motherboard.
It just isn't very widely documented.
It would be worth a shot. I will have to test this on my pc next time I reboot, learn something new everyday. are you pressing f8 too late? bios loads before os, so it's probably user error
start mashing the f8 key once you turn the system on
Windows7 is interfering, no matter what. He stated he has tried that, holding to pressing multiple times, it keeps coming up with windows7 boot loader thing "safe mode, etc". I recall I had same problem back in 2007. If you ask me, asus is fail in my eyes ever since I owned that p5n32-e sli board, nothing but problems. Went to gigabyte, I'll never turn my head away from them. |
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