Why Laptop automatically opens BIOS when starting up

Two days ago my friend brought a laptop to my place, He complain that His Laptop Automatically open BIOS Setup when laptop satrting up. In fact, to access the laptop BIOS, you have to press the one of key on the keyboard that is used to enter the BIOS first. But on this Asus laptop, without pressing any buttons, it directly enter the bios automatically. Well, It makes him confused and wants to find out how fix this Asus laptop that goes into bios continuously when turned on.

If the question is why does the laptop directly Enter to the BIOS Setup Automatically? And how to solve laptops that often enter the BIOS? There are several options that must be considered on the laptop. And some of these options should be checked and try one by one, so that you can get answers to laptop problems that often enter bios. Some of these options will be discussed in the article below. So, if you are one of people who experience laptop problems that often enter to BIOS Setup, maybe this review below can be the solution.

Laptop automatically opens BIOS when starting up

How to Solve laptop Automatically Open BIOS When Starting Up


1. Sticky keyboard
To enter the BIOS setup, there is usually a command on the keyboard to press one or more buttons assigned to access the BIOS setup (usually Del, F2, F11, F12, Esc etc.) buttons. Well, if the button that use to access BIOS is sticky, then your laptop will automatically open BIOS continuously when the laptop is turned on. So the solution, try removing the button that you think is triggering the laptop to enter BIOS then clean and then reinstall it. If there are too many sticky keyboard buttons, then replacing is the recommended solution so that your laptop does not continuously opening BIOS again.

2. Battery BIOS Off
BIOS Battery or also known as CMOS battery is a battery that functions to provide power to the motherboard to store configuration in the BIOS. If the battery is damaged or dead, the settings in the BIOS such as date and time will always change. And on some types / brands of laptops, when the BIOS battery is damaged it can also cause the laptop Automatically open BIOS directly when it is turned on. To solve it, replace the CMOS battery with the normal one, so your laptop will not Automatically open BIOS again.

3. Damaged or unreadable HDD
In some brands or types of laptops, a damaged or unreadable hard disk can also be the reason why the laptop Always Open BIOS when it is turned on. This is what I found in the case above. Not only once, the Asus laptop that entered the bios continuously has been found several times and it turns out that the cause is quite trivial, because the hard disk is unreadable or damaged. Now to solve this, just unload your laptop and then unplug the hard disk then reinstall. If possible, you can check the condition of the hard disk to ensure the condition is using the HD Sentinel Application. Usually, if the cause is due to an unreadable hard drive, then by doing this way the problem of laptops Automatically Open BIOS will be immediately sorted out.

Those tips above are ways to solve the laptop that Automatically open BIOS when it was first turned on. And in the case of laptops that often entering bios above, the step I took was to check the option number 3 and the problem was finished and laptop was back to normal again