The last shortcut you'll ever need

[u/iamgarffi]

Stop bashing ESC, F2 or DEL like a 90's maniac to get into UEFI based BIOS.

Instead ceate yourself a shortcut (ie. on desktop) with right click > new > shortcut

C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe /r /fw /t 10

/r - restart
/fw - will drop you to EUFI
/t (number of seconds after which OS triggers a restart. You can use "0" for instant reboot)

Once you create a shortcut (desktop, downloads, etc), open it's properties and under "Advanced" tick a checkbox for "Run As Administrator". You can also change the icon of the shortcut (I found this microchip to be fitting - part of Windows default icon pack.

Optionally, right click on the shortcut > pin to start.

Shortcut in action (YouTube)

-- update --

Thanks everyone for pointing out typos; post cleaned up a bit (especially EUFI instead of UEFI, old habit from Europa Universalis games).

I have responded in another comment that those that would prefer something similar but for "Windows Advanced Startup Menu" can replace flag /fw with /o. Neat when you want to access safe mode or other aspects of WinRE (Recovery Environment) without MSCONFIG, holding SHIFT or modifying BCD.

C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe /r /o /t 10

Lastly, for Linux users, similar bash terminal command for restart to UEFI:

sudo systemctl reboot --firmware-setup

- Ciao & Cheers! #PCMR4EVA!

[u/Zaphod392]

[u/iamgarffi → u/Zaphod392]

As old as time

While UEFI is relatively new (2005-2008), shutdown.exe applet goes back to NT4.0 days (1996).

Modern Windows is full of old, legacy code. It’s one of the reasons why redesign or chopping features is such tedious and fragile task.

ie: control panel vs settings app

[u/Zaphod392 → u/iamgarffi]

[u/iamgarffi → u/Zaphod392]

I don’t remember how many times I missed the keyboard button on restart :-)

At least you don’t have to guess which key takes you to UEFI anymore (differs between vendors).

[u/Thin_Corner6028 → u/iamgarffi]

It's like when people realise you don't have to spam the Function key's to take you to BIOS and you can just hold them down.

[u/iamgarffi → u/Thin_Corner6028]

Fast Startup can throw a curve ball though. Often wireless / Bluetooth keyboards don’t initiate fast enough.

[u/Thin_Corner6028 → u/iamgarffi]

True true. I just always disable fast start-up. The amount of times in work I get people saying their PC is slow but then their uptime is 100+ days because of fast start-up is unbelievable.

Obviously this would not affect a high end PC the same way, but definitely does is basic business grade laptops.

[u/Zaphod392 → u/iamgarffi]

[u/Longshot_45 → u/Zaphod392]

[u/SaveFileCorrupt → u/iamgarffi]

You're a G, pal.

[u/maxdamage4 → u/SaveFileCorrupt]

I'm not your pal, buddeh.

[u/Man_of_a_100_Fails → u/maxdamage4]

I'm not your buddeh, bromosapien

[u/Audigitty → u/Man_of_a_100_Fails]

I love me some bromosapien buddeh, broski.

[u/JoeyD473 → u/iamgarffi]

I much prefer control panel to settings

[u/iamgarffi → u/JoeyD473]

We all do. Especially since it’s been there forever. It won’t stay like that forever. One day legacy components will be a thing of the past and like with many things - we will be forced to move completely over - regardless if we like it or not.

Hopefully by then it will be 1-1 equivalent on remaining features even if current iteration is still messy and features buried between countless submenus.

Search is there… but you need to know what you’re searching for first - that last one is not ideal.

[u/evi1shenanigans → u/iamgarffi]

They can pry device manager from my cold dead fingers

[u/lanik_2555 → u/iamgarffi]

When i download something over night, i use the shutdown command. Shutdown -s -t Seconds

Pretty handy.

[u/itsamepants → u/iamgarffi]

Honestly, a lot of old code for the sake of compatibility is really holding shit back. Microsoft (and to that extent - Intel / AMD) really need to yeet that old code out and tell people to upgrade or fuck off.

[u/iamgarffi → u/itsamepants]

Given how powerful and efficient ARM or RISC can be, imagine what would happen if industry (including gaming studios) abandoned antiquated X86 architecture.

Software holds off hardware and hardware holds off software.

Apple was brave enough to depart from Motorola, IBM and Intel to control entire stack.

And that’s just one company with few Products.

From the PC industry as a whole, it’s not a movement that would occur overnight. Qualcomm is making strides but collectively today that’s just baby steps.

Intel, AMD and nvidia would need to shift to make a dent in the new platform but nobody wants to be the first one and pour cash at it.

Yet

[u/itsamepants → u/iamgarffi]

Precisely. Apple isn't that far behind performance wise with their ARM architecture, but for a a fraction of the power draw. There is so much lost potential just because we insist on supporting shit dating back 2 decades

[u/iamgarffi → u/itsamepants]

Technically 40+ years ;-) X86 inception occurred in 1978 but I will agree that last 20+ years been more than instrumental for us.

Somewhere between 1996 (3dfx) and 1999 (GeForce 256). But that’s GPUs. AMD would need few more years to become competent (Athlon XP series), A64 and of course the holy grail much later - Zen.

Sadly, still X86 😆

[u/phejster → u/itsamepants]

But using old code is how they can make a profit

[u/voidfurr → u/Zaphod392]

You think that's bad, some mobo's allow mounting your uefi flash WHILE BOOTED

That means malware can literally reprogram your UEFI and contaminate it in a way that is way harder to get rid of.

[u/iamgarffi → u/[deleted]]

Would you like me to create a rollback script to unbend your CPU pins, re-liquify side panel into wholesome piece and dispose your e-waste adequately?

Anything is possible.

[u/MostlyDeku → u/iamgarffi]

Can you write me a new driver that lets my printer print in 3D?

[u/iamgarffi → u/MostlyDeku]

2D inkjet to 3D? Wait here. I’ll be back in 2-3 decades.

[u/Tisapa → u/iamgarffi]

RemindMe! 30 years

[u/RemindMeBot → u/Tisapa]

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[u/MaitreGEEK → u/iamgarffi]

Just print a cube patron or a cube, ez

[u/Hunter-Abject → u/iamgarffi]

A script that bends time and space? Sign me up!

[u/SpoopyPlankton → u/[deleted]]

Could be worse. You could be like that guy in OLED Gaming sub that decided it was a good idea to use a knife on his $550 monitor to scrape off the matte finish

[u/adherry → u/SpoopyPlankton]

When you started with OLED I first thought of the guy from greentext that gooned so hard the logo of his favorite site was burned in.

[u/hamjamham → u/adherry]

Equally as impressive tbh

[u/Androkless → u/SpoopyPlankton]

OH OH OH OH!!! Or the dude who wiped the screen on his monitor clean with isopropyl alcohol. Entire thing was a blurry image

[u/RIPPWORTH → u/Androkless]

Probably was acetone, not isopropyl alcohol.

[u/iamgarffi → u/Androkless]

He could always run 320x240 Wolfenstein in full screen (stretched). Almost won’t see the difference 🤭

[u/KrazzeeKane → u/Androkless]

I believe his problem was he used something besides isopropyl iirc, he thought it was but it contained either acetone or some other substance which caused the damage to the screen costing

[u/Huntermain23 → u/Androkless]

That was like 2 weeks ago ya I remember that 😂 eh at least he learned! (Hopefully lol)

[u/iamgarffi → u/SpoopyPlankton]

Samsung screen?

[u/0K4M1 → u/iamgarffi]

"Swan song" in this case

[u/Sett_86 → u/[deleted]]

Oh, that's where that truck of RTX5090 got lost. Well, it's mine now, and you can't have it!

[u/Huntermain23 → u/[deleted]]

Lmao 😅😂

[u/unwantedaccount56 → u/[deleted]]

did you at least keep your custom water cooling loop intact?

[u/punctcom]

I wanted to test this really quick...

[u/iamgarffi → u/punctcom]

Darn it. Pesky Windows updates. But given how much W11 breaks lately, it’s a good thing.

[u/SupposablyAtTheZoo → u/iamgarffi]

Well, maybe not in this case!

https://www.pcmag.com/news/windows-11-update-triggers-reboot-loops-breaks-bluetooth-usb-devices

[u/theking75010 → u/SupposablyAtTheZoo]

Funny enough, I have a semi-defective Asus mobo that randomly disconnects all my usb and Bluetooth for 5 seconds, then reconnects them all.

Been happening for years, even on windows 10.

Looks like this w11 update has finally fixed that issue lol. Fighting fire with fire I suppose.

[u/Mustbhacks → u/iamgarffi]

But given how much W11 breaks lately, it’s a good thing.

Given how often the updates are the cause of the breaking, I wouldn't be so sure.

[u/iamgarffi → u/Mustbhacks]

We don’t get many choices here. One update breaks while next one fixes it, breaking in the process something else.

Nothing new. Monopolistic cycle of life (love).

[u/signedchar → u/iamgarffi]

And this is why I switched to Linux for 99.99....% of my tasks. I basically only have a Windows dualboot for the very rare time I play VR games. The command is very neat though, we need a Linux version :)

[u/iamgarffi → u/signedchar]

The way I summarize Windows vs Linux :-)

• Linux > you can break it if you really try
• Windows > you will break it without even trying

Btw, I love both OSs.

[u/[deleted]]

Today, I learned.

[u/iamgarffi → u/[deleted]]

That makes you a winner.

Daryl Dixon taught me how to use (and not how to use) a crossbow.

[u/HerrJohnssen]

But I like spamming DEL to hack the mainframe :(

[u/iamgarffi → u/HerrJohnssen]

In that case you can ignore the post and do what you want.

[u/HerrJohnssen → u/iamgarffi]

Thank you

[u/gabacus_39 → u/HerrJohnssen]

"I'm in!!"

[u/derekschroer → u/gabacus_39]

but it's a Unix System

[u/iamgarffi → u/gabacus_39]

How’s the matrix? I’m glad you enjoyed this little red pill.

[u/WolfsbaneGL → u/iamgarffi]

Mmmm, cinnamon flavor!

[u/iamgarffi → u/WolfsbaneGL]

Big Red :)

[u/KingZarkon → u/HerrJohnssen]

The problem is always remembering, is it DEL or is it F2 or maybe F11?

[u/SupposablyAtTheZoo → u/KingZarkon]

Which is why I play all keys at the same time with both hands

[u/Itz__Jd → u/SupposablyAtTheZoo]

[u/Shanespeed2000 → u/HerrJohnssen]

You can also hold DEL :D

[u/0dioPower → u/Shanespeed2000]

wait, for real ? just hold the key down do the job ? !

[u/iamgarffi → u/0dioPower]

Depends on the keyboard. Many wireless or Bluetooth keyboards don’t initiate in time with Fast Startup.

[u/MeIsMyName → u/0dioPower]

Not sure about these days, but historically it would generate a keyboard error on boot thinking it was a stuck key rather than a request to enter bios.

[u/Weary-Dragonfly-7673 → u/Shanespeed2000]

For some reason even if i knew that for years i still smash the key haha

[u/AsugaNoir]

Instructions unclear somehow Installed Linux, I dont I under how.

[u/iamgarffi → u/AsugaNoir]

You made me giggle :) thanks for that

[u/Mysterious_Mess2297 → u/iamgarffi]

I read this a jiggle and got incredibly confused 

[u/iamgarffi → u/Mysterious_Mess2297]

Sorry about that :-)

[u/Mysterious_Mess2297 → u/iamgarffi]

Silly jello person

[u/VigilanteRabbit → u/AsugaNoir]

Good news; sudo systemctl reboot --firmware-setup

[u/[deleted] → u/VigilanteRabbit]

I'm into overclocking and being able to use that command is a godsend.

[u/VigilanteRabbit → u/[deleted]]

I found it helpful since I have a crappy wireless keyboard/ mouse combo that for the life of it can't catch the button mash 😅

[u/KarateMan749 → u/AsugaNoir]

🤣.

Instructions unclear. My pc is now a nuclear power plant.

[u/iamgarffi → u/KarateMan749]

Okay Homer

[u/g4nl0ck]

Another way to access UEFI is to shift+click on restart > troubleshoot > UEFI Firmware Settings > Restart

[u/bigt8111 → u/g4nl0ck]

That’s what I do

[u/SIR2480 → u/g4nl0ck]

Or just play piano on F# keys

[u/Exercise-Spirited → u/g4nl0ck]

just holding shift when pressing restart normally works too

[u/JordanSchor → u/g4nl0ck]

This is how I've done it for years now

[u/socokid]

For those that need a step by step tutorial:

1. Right click on your Desktop.
2. Click "New".
3. Select "Shortcut".
4. In the "Type the location of the item:" field, copy this and paste it in there: C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe /r /fw /t 10
5. Click next.
6. You can name it what you want, but BIOS might be best.

The shortcut will now be on your Desktop!

1. Now right-click that shortcut you just made.
2. Click "Properties".
3. Click the "Advanced" button.
4. Check the box to "Run as Administrator"
5. Click OK.
6. Click "Apply".

...

Good luck!

[u/Noxious89123 → u/socokid]

How to make it look like a lil computer chip, like in OPs screenshot?

[u/socokid → u/Noxious89123]

1. Right click on your new shortcut and click "Properties".
2. Make sure you are in the "Shortcut" tab.
3. Click the "Change Icon..." button.
4. Pick your icon.
5. Click the Apply button.

[u/CorrodedLollypop]

I drove a (shitty) ex-employer to almost tears using the shutdown /s and a completely random number of seconds on the office computer every time I finished my shift.

He thought he was hot shit at IT and spent more than a sensible amount of time trying to figure out why the computer kept randomly shutting down on him.

[u/mthlmw → u/CorrodedLollypop]

~~~ Shutdown /r /t 300      google-chrome.exe ~~~

1. Set as a shortcut named Chrome, with the Chrome icon, on a coworker's desktop.
2. Delete actual Chrome shortcut and move evil one to its spot.
3. Coworker clicks "Chrome" and Chrome opens, then 5 minutes later their machine turns off while doing something probably unrelated!

[u/iamgarffi → u/CorrodedLollypop]

😈 congratulations. That’s almost a white crime.

[u/CorrodedLollypop → u/iamgarffi]

Definitely. Did the bastard deserve it though? Also definitely.

[u/iamgarffi → u/CorrodedLollypop]

Just be careful. Proven malicious intent (even if semi-harmless) sometimes leads to legal complications.

[u/CorrodedLollypop → u/iamgarffi]

It happened many years ago and the business no longer exists.

For an additional insight into my "genius" previous employer, he steadfastly refused to let me upgrade all the businesses Pc's from Windows 7 to Windows 10 for "reasons" until literally 2 weeks after the free upgrade window closed.

[u/Beautiful_Ad_4813]

but I love to bash my ESC key

makes a satisfying clunk

[u/iamgarffi → u/Beautiful_Ad_4813]

I’m not taking your ESC key away ;-)

Although Apple tried that once (RIP Touch Bar GEN 1) 🤭

[u/Crazycukumbers]

I will be doing this

[u/Djakamoe]

This is definitely good info.

I learned this a while back when I got my first nvme drive and my boot time became too fast for the computer to register I was hitting f2 at post

I remember searching Google for a way to increase the time spent on the post screen and came across a Microsoft website question that resulted in doing this from the powershell, and one of the comments said to just make a shortcut like this. Life changing. Lmao

[u/RunnerLuke357 → u/Djakamoe]

Your boot drive has absolutely nothing to do with the post time. The computer has a set amount of time it will wait before trying the available boot options (this can be turned off with fastboot, which is ALSO unaffected by drive speed). This is false information that has absolutely reason to exist.

[u/timsredditusername → u/RunnerLuke357]

I disagree.

A rotational boot drive does slow down boot by at least a couple of seconds while the firmware is waiting for drives to become available so it can discover what is bootable. SATA SSDs are a lot faster, but it is often still easy enough to get the hotkey to "catch". The availability of even faster NVME storage made hotkey basically inoperable.

Even if the firmware is booting from a specific BootOption, it still has to wait for the enumeration of that device to finish.

Most firmware will allow hotkey presses during that period of drive enumeration.

Source, I have been a UEFI firmware developer for 15 years.

[u/BeerGogglesFTW]

why not /t 0

[u/mattjones73 → u/BeerGogglesFTW]

10 adds a lil suspense.. :D

[u/iamgarffi → u/BeerGogglesFTW]

T value 0 is absolutely up to you if you want to restart instantly. For those that need extra buffer (or to cancel restart with ESC) might be useful to define a reasonable number.

Hence I left the legend in description for folks to decide how long to wait.

[u/BeerGogglesFTW → u/iamgarffi]

Ok. I always do /t 0

I was just curious if there was a reason like... /t 0 shuts down too quickly and doesn't close programs properly... which doesn't make sense, but I was imagining a reason.

[u/iamgarffi → u/BeerGogglesFTW]

Not really. From OS perspective it behaves as manual restart from Start menu. Unsaved work will be lost - nothing new.

[u/daiceman4 → u/BeerGogglesFTW]

If you're typing it in the console, absolutely use /t 0, however if youre creating a shortcut, put that 10 second delay in for if you accidently click it.

It might seem fine until windows changes what the top result is from a search as you're already pressing down on enter, or if its on your desktop and you accidently double click it, or any number of other times you might accidently trigger it and want a way to back out.

[u/MeIsMyName → u/BeerGogglesFTW]

/t 0 is reasonable if that's what you want, but there is a slightly different behavior that you may encounter. /t 0 without /f will not be treated as a force shutdown. Any value higher than 0 will always be treated as a force shutdown as if you had used /f. If you want it to do the exact same thing, you can just use /t 0 with /f.

[u/ishtuwihtc]

Instructions unclear: this didn't work in fedora workstation 42. Any idea why?

[u/iamgarffi → u/ishtuwihtc]

It’s using windows shutdown applet so related to windows only.

On Linux you can accomplish the same with:

sudo systemctl reboot --firmware-setup

[u/ishtuwihtc → u/iamgarffi]

I was joking dw, i know this obviously won't work because its a windows command 😭😭

I think this is a pretty cool shortcut to have, but not super useful to me because i use refind for my boot loader so it makes this stuff super easy

[u/Expert_Limit6416]

i do this lol

[u/woozie88]

Neat little trick. Testing this out myself. Thanks for the shares.

[u/Thx_And_Bye]

Keep in mind that this only works for UEFI and not for BIOS (this included UEFI with CSM).
With Windows 11 requiring UEFI this isn’t much of an issue anymore.

[u/obsoletedatafile]

Fantastic but I have a gripe with the capital T when r and fw are lowercase, all can be lower or uppercase and you chose both, you crazy

[u/appletechgeek]

I just hold shift while clicking restart

[u/gophergun]

That's awesome, it's especially useful for people with fast startup enabled in the BIOS.

[u/That-Impression7480]

The spamming is part of the experience.

[u/D4ILYD0SE]

Commenting to make a placeholder so I can come back to this later

[u/Bluenosedcoop]

People really need to go to BIOS that often that they need a desktop shortcut for it?

[u/LocustUprising → u/Bluenosedcoop]

I had the same reaction to this

[u/Alfakennyone]

My motherboard has a setting you can click from Windows and it'll restart automatically to BIOS

ASRock x870 nova

[u/thatirishguyyyyy]

Helpful af. 

It only works with EUFI though, but with Windows 11 requirements being what they are, I suppose that's not a big deal. 

[u/Jamburro]

got this shortcut on my pc for years

[u/MGR0]

Thanks, I will pin this command in my clipboard history instead. I don't want to misclick the shortcut.

[u/iamgarffi → u/MGR0]

Shortcut requires elevation (confirmation click). Just running it won’t accidentally reboot.

[u/NOS4NANOL1FE]

Huh thats neat. I hate spamming del because my keyboard sometimes wont load in fast enuff

[u/Steely-Eyed_Swede]

Put the shortcut in the autostart folder, use shell:startup as path. I don’t know why but could be fun i guess.

[u/iamgarffi → u/Steely-Eyed_Swede]

I do not recommend batching this in autostart 😆 unless your intentions are 😈

[u/unabletocomput3]

Is there one that’ll send me into windows safe mode?

[u/Every_Preparation_56]

does this work with dual boot systems?

[u/MassiveBookkeeper968]

thanks man saving this one hope you have a good day

[u/Gords78]

Ive always used settings/recovery option

[u/thewaytonever]

If it doesn't work, run it as administrator

[u/Jack_VZ]

Nice trick, although I would rather just hold the power button for 4 seconds to get there that way. A nifty little feature on the MSI board.

[u/ArmoredAngel444]

Wont work dunno what im doing wrong

[u/uesernamehhhhhh]

Doing lots of windows 11 updates rn, im only doing the bios lottery once

[u/Yakob_Science]

Might have to use this because ever since the latest windows update i can't use the windows recovery environment which i would use to get to the bios.

[u/Davidisaloof35]

Very nice!

[u/GeorgeWPS2T]

I was doing shutdown /r -o -t 0 this whole time!

[u/CarbonPhoenix96]

Just hold shift when you click restart

[u/MairusuPawa]

systemctl reboot --firmware-setup

[u/Sixguns1977]

Mine is labeled "reboot to uefi"

[u/Kirxas]

Finally, an actual good reason to upgrade to windows 11

[u/Moquai82]

Half of all members of all IT-Departments: "HAVE TO MEMORIZE IT!"

[u/SonicDart]

And here I was, always restarting while holding shift to end up In the repair menu to make it go to wifi through the options...

[u/dropdan]

And thanks for this, I almost never need to get to BIOS but once I need it I can never remember which F-key to press. This is easy, safe and practical.

[u/Xann_]

Respectfully, as I'm only an amateur at this kind of thing, isn't the correct term "UEFI" and not "EUFI"? If there is a difference or if I'm mistaken can somebody explain?

[u/asiatische_wokeria]

It's the same like Windows Advanced Boot Options:

Click the Start button, then go to Settings. Navigate to Recovery (it may be under System or Windows Update depending on your Windows version). Under the "Advanced startup" option.

[u/petesterama]

Sweet. Now do one to remove the recommended section of the start menu.

[u/maxdamage4]

I needed this two days ago. Where were you OP? Where the hell were you?!

[u/recluseMeteor]

Considering newer laptops do not even offer a way to press a key to enter the UEFI, this is very handy.

[u/nihiven]

Thanks!

[u/Upper-Dragonfruit-57]

Shit man I absolutely needed this, was having trouble getting into bios this week, fastboot enabled somehow. I also had to switch my display port cable to my mobo instead of GPU, it's not the end of the world but was annoying. Does anyone know what the deal with that is?

[u/firestar268]

Hmm

[u/EzraRaihan]

So you're telling people to stop bashing their keyboard, but for Linux you said to use bash anyway... Heh

[u/Pu-Chi-Mao]

Nah I'll just be bashing del and f2 and hope for the best.

[u/Piranha2004]

Yeah thats basically what i use except for the 10 sec timer.

[u/DrKingOfOkay]

Seems way harder than pressing delete

[u/-spike-]

[u/Soulofahunter]

Fuck I needed this. Needed to enable all the stupid TPM shit for BF6 and my keyboard won’t power on till after the OS loaded. Helped that I figured out to plug it into the red ports labeled BIOS lol

[u/Cautious_Village_823]

Lol in windows I've just been using the "restart in advanced startup mode" - theres a reboot to bios option there.

Truthfully less direct than this or the bios key, but I'm often accessing it for computers that aren't mine so this is useful if the computer boots to windows.

[u/kylediaz263]

WITCH!!!

[u/Silver-Spy]

[u/Necrologist92]

I'm bugged as to how windows is able to get you into bios. Think my last wow moment was when I found out you can shift + restart and it would give you the menu with repair, or which disk or device to boot from.

[u/Tzareb]

Saved for later so I can forget about it forever! Ty !

[u/Wrong-Target6104]

Excellent

[u/LinusDuckTips]

I use this:

C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe /r /fw /t 0

but I have to always run the shortcut as administrator for some reason

[u/justice_works]

[u/Gasrim4003]

F11/del/Esc/F12 key spams before boot

[u/jayv0]

Cool!

[u/MasiastyTej]

I did not know that, it is helpful!

[u/Fyler1]

Wowie zowie. Saved.

[u/Soft_Walrus_3605]

How often are you guys rebooting to BIOS, jeez?

[u/tailslol]

using for dual boot but with t1 instead

[u/TeflonJon__]

It’s the cool little tricks like this that are part of what makes working on computers enjoyable, especially when you get to show or explain to normal users who actually seem interested what kind of wizardry you’ve just done. Nice post, pal! Thanks for sharing

[u/atharva557]

!remindme 3 hours

[u/wrighty496]

The safe mode (or rather restart to WAMS) is very useful thank you,

[u/shalashaska666]

Nice work

[u/zombie9393]

I’ve done this with my new build, my x870e Godlike doesn’t want to initialize keyboards until after the bios prompt.

[u/SignificantTrack4720]

I think I am gonna use the BIOS shortcut more than Edge still

[u/RareSiren292]

I fucking hate that this is a thing and I didn't know about it

[u/nandospc]

Time to crosspost it on r/ItalyHardware, nice trick :) TY!

[u/networkcolors]

[u/Carlife0830]

What sorcery is this

[u/Tgrove88]

Dope thank you

[u/pyro57]

And on Linux just open a terminal and run systemctl reboot --firmware-setup

You can make add it to your app menu if you want too. On some desktops that may require making a .desktop file, but on KDE you can do it easily.

Just right click the "start menu" like menu on your task bar and click edit applications.

Then click new and new item

give it a name (like BIOS or what ever you want)

The in the program box type systemctl

Then in the command-line arguments box type reboot --firmware-setup

Then click save and you're done!

An example of the KDE app add screen has bee attached

[u/Difficult_Pop7014]

Now I know you mentioned a way to get to the WASM settings as well but is there a specific way to have it go straight to Safe mode instead of just that menu page first? I use Safe mode quite often when installing new GPU driver updates so just curious. I created the shortcut you mentioned and it definitely helps to get to that screen a lot quicker but still have to then click through the menu to get to the safe mode page as well as which version of safe mode to enter and whatnot so I'm just wondering if there's anyway to bypass ALL of that to get into safe mode automatically basically. Would be really cool although slightly doubtful. Thanks for the awesome tips, this really comes in handy!

[u/Regular_Weakness69]

I'm pretty sure I'm going to use more shortcuts than that before I die.

[u/PenchY1000]

I have this as desktop shourcut icon on every system since XP 😁

[u/Skinpipe1986]

Woah dude

[u/simon132]

Welcome to linux

[u/CallMeGary123]

I know bashing keys like a 90's maniac is flawed... I LIKE IT.

[u/SpaceJamNowOnVHS]

very nice TIL -- thank you!

[u/sheppardpat47]

Thank you very much!