F2 dell setup

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NikkisYard 2 Bronze. All instructions from Dell were not clear and left our a few essentials. I fear I have now messed up these settings in trying to follow them. Can anyone guide me as to the correct way to set the machine up to boot from my USB? Thanks in advance. All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Replies 9. How do you use F2 on Dell?

What Is F2 Setup? What Does F2 Setup Mean? The computer should be restarted. You can select Main by pressing the Right Arrow key. Go to the F12 Boot Menu and select it.

If you press Enter, you will be taken to the next screen. Enabled will be the next step. What Is F12 In Startup? Watch what is f2 dell computer Video. Below are common reasons that may lead your PC to be stuck on boot screen and shows press F2 to enter setup: 1. The battery on motherboard has run down There is battery on every mother board, which is used to save BIOS settings and maintain the running of motherboard clock in the absence of power supply.

Solution : Step1. Turn off the computer and open the computer case to remove the battery. Insert a new battery on the motherboard. Turn on computer and press F2 to enter setup. Reboot your computer and it will no longer report the message. There is no floppy disk drive or floppy disk drive failure, but BIOS sets to boot from floppy disk drive Some computer sets to boot from floppy disk drive, but the problem is that there is no floppy disk drive on the computer or floppy disk drive has failures.

Solution : For this problem, you just need to set the Drive A as None following the guide below: Step1. Save the BIOS settings and exit. Remove a hard disk from computer, but BIOS settings do not change Some people installed two or more hard disks on computer, and the BIOS settings to boot Windows from the first hard disk.

Set to auto detect all hard disk drives on your computer. CPU clock rate changed or it has memory problem If problem results from the change or CPU clock rate or memory problem, you just need to replace the computer memory and reset the CMOS values to defaults to resolve the issue. The BIOS can be reset by selecting this option. There are many reasons why a motherboard BIOS may be corrupted. An interrupted BIOS update is often to blame for this problem.

A failed flash is often to blame. It should be able to POST again after that. You can also access the same Reset this PC function in the system settings and select Get Started from there.

The computer will be wiped clean if you choose Remove Everything. During the process, you can only delete your files or you can delete everything on the drive and clean it completely.