Cannot enter BIOS on HP Pavilion 590-P0020

[dclive]

I have a new Pavilion 590-P0020.

I am running BIOS 10 - (5/31/2018) 

I can successfully hit ESC to get the blue pick list in BIOS/UEFI that allows for several options, including hardware diagnostics, boot disk selection, enter BIOS setup, and <enter> to continue.

Selecting UEFI hardware diagnostics (F2, IIRC) works great.  The other options don't work (well, enter works - boots Windows normally...)

Can anyone offer any suggestions?  I just want to get into BIOS to check boot order of disks, see the settings, etc.  

[old_geekster · Accepted solution]

@dclive, welcome to the forum.

You can try tapping "F10" once per second when the computer begins to boot.  This should take you directly to the BIOS setup utility.

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[dclive]

The F10 key apparently is overridden on my keyboard with another function, and requires the Fn key to be pressed simultaneously.  Pressing Fn-F10 fixed the issue completely.  

[old_geekster]

@dclive, thanks for the update.  You can go into the BIOS and change the setting so you don't have to use the Fn key for that purpose: System Configuration/Action Keys Mode/Enabled.  I have mine set so it will work without the Fn key.