What if you get stuck in Windows 10 Recovery?

Press Power and Hold it for about 10 seconds (the screen will turn off after 2-3 seconds).

If you don’t enter the BIOS and haven’t installed another OS, You’ll end up on a blue background “Hi there” screen asking you to select country, language, etc. What if you end up in the Windows 10 Setup?

Select “Exit” from the tabs at the left.

Otherwise you’ll need to enter the password every time you use the BIOS.Ī password is required to modify the secure boot setting, but “disabled” will persist without one.

(Optional) Go back to the “Security” tab and set the supervisor password back to nothing.

This is necessary for proper network operation.

Select the “Main” tab on the left and set the time and date by pressing “” and “” buttons respectfully.

The “Boot priority order” list may be adjusted using the up/down arrows to the right of each item.

(if there’s no gray bar, you have not set a supervisor password, go back and do that now)

Tap the “” gray bar under “Secure Boot”.

Select “Boot” from the tabs at the left.

Enter a supervisor password, enter it again, press OK.

Tap the “” gray bar under “Supervisor Password Is”.

Select “Security” from the tabs at the left.

Alternatively, hold F2 on an attached keyboard while powering the machine on. Let go of the Power button when the display backlight turns on. With the machine off, Press and hold Volume Up, then continue to hold while pressing and holding the Power button.

To be sure, hold for about 10 seconds total. If you boot into Windows 10 or something hangs or crashes and you need to power things off, Press and Hold the power button until the display shuts off. If you hold too long it may end up power right back off again. You can safely let go when the tiny blue light on the power button itself turns on (yes, this is really hard to see when you’re holding the power button), or when the display backlight turns on. To power on you must hold the power button (lefthand side, above the Volume rocker) for several seconds, then let go. WARNING: These are directions to configure the machine and boot an experimental, in-development OS on it.

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