I love that I have to resort to praying someone has uploaded a video on how to get into the Viao laptop bios because Sony doesn't even properly document these things!!! Thank you so much!
THANK YOU!!! Ive been working on my laptop all day trying to install Ubuntu and i could not find any way to get into my BIOS! Finally after a long day it works because of this video. Thank you sir.
This is a very helpful video; thanks for uploading this. He doesnt actually tell you how to boot into the BIOS until 4:45. This videos deserves a "like". Thanks again hiertechnologies.
THANKS!!! I tried everything and had no luck before finding your video. You saved me :). At first I thought it didn't work either, because holding F2 while powering produced high, constant pitching sound but after 0,5 minute it stopped and BIOS opened :D Thanks for sharing. I didn't know it was S-version of vaio. I simply also couldn't find solution anywhere, because those suggested simply didn't work. Yours finally came through. Thanks again for sharing this with us!
Thanks for posting this! I tried to update the bios on my system only to discover that the computer could no longer find the OS! In my case, I had to trasfer the OS from a DVD to a flash drive and hit F11 repeatedly while powering on. Then, I could only hit F2 one time before Windows began to book from the flash drive. At first, I hit F2 repeatedly and it didn't work--but just once did the trick! Would have NEVER gotten this thing working myself without your tip!
thank you so much! It help me a lot... we have same laptop... After so many attempts in searching how to enter this is just the answer of my problem... thank you again...
Absolutely great, thank you so much! Took a long time to (finally) find a solution for such a trivial problem. I can't believe Sony making it so hard to simply enter the d@mn BIOS. Your solution, accompanied with good commentary, did the trick. Thanks again!
Thanks bro, your efforts are appreciated as it helped me getting in the BIOS for vaio E series laptop, cause i also wasted some time searching. but u saved the rest of the time that might as well be wasted... thanks a lot
Great tip, thanks. The notebook I was trying it on (svs 15XXX) I had to power on in pretty much as soon as the power led went on press and hold F2 and that worked (holding F2 then powering on did not work).
I just tried the F11+Power but seeing this made me go back and try again if it were that 50% chance.. and it was third time the charm. Finally getting to install Win10.
It was a lot easier on my S-Series. With the laptop off, I pressed the "Assist" button above the keyboard. In a few seconds the laptop started and after a few more seconds a menu appeared. This menu included a Start BIOS option.
Hi, Thanks for this video. It doesn't work on my S serie Vaio but helps me to find the way to open the BIOS. On mine I have to press and hold the Assist button and then press the power button.
I have a Sony as well. I went through all the step on this video but I hit a wall when you stated to changed the Boot Mode to Legacy. My computer does give me that options. It only has External Device boot and Network boot.
Don't press the power button to start the laptop. Press the 'assist' button INSTEAD of the power button. This will boot your PC into the tech menu. From there you can select start from CD. Job done.
Jason Smart Not all versions offer CD boot in the Assist menu, only those that don't have on-disk recovery images. Apparently Sony considers it unsupported to install an OS from external media on machines with internal recovery (probably because it bypasses all the revenue-generating bloatware included in the recovery images).
Hi Thanks for your help. I finally got to bios to work, now my problem is that once I am installing window I have been clicking on repair by going to x:\windows\system32\cmd .exe to partition the hard drive, but is nothing like the videos. and that's when you can help me on how to partition the hard drive kus like I say its totally different form a video I watched
also i have one question regarding E series VPCEB44EN vaio that the factory config for ram was DDR3 2+1 3gb ram, 1gb ram got burned out now the question here is can i use2 gb of ram in place of 1 gb and upgrade my ram config from 2+1i.e. 3GB to 2+2 i.e. 4GB ... can i??
i would like to get into the bios but i don't anything on the screen at all and i know it works because i interrupeted the recovery process n now i can even see the screen on. when u say windows media r u refering the wi dows installation dvd or its supposed to be window media the one u use to listen music??
Sony totally suck, infinitely annoyed when I had problems and can't find any answers myself. Thought I bought a good product with a renown company. Appreciate the video!
OK...so I have a sony vaio laptop model PCG-61a11L or VPCEG (one of those) it has the assist key, anyways I tried what you put on this along with a lot of other ways I heard of and it ultimately leads me straight to the "enter bios password" screen... I want to smash the damn thing because I don't know what else to do!!!
Can you please explain how to unlock the bios (InsydeH2O rev 3.7) to get legacy boot? I've been bashing my head on the wall for almost 12 hours straight. Thanks!
thanks for the video, do you know how to clone an hdd to an ssd? i have a problem with this and nobody seems to know how to do it even went to a local store and they couldn't help me either. i called sony and they couldn't give me an proper answer all they said was that the harddrive is custom made. after my friends give it a few tries without succes i gived up.
My SVSA2A, with computer off, press and hold Assist button only. Computer starts, brings up menu. Can select to enter bios from there. If you're vaio has one of those raid SSD modules, and you bought regular 2.5" SSD with proper cable, you can get into the raid controller from the bios before switching over the drive and break the raid. Many had installed a drive and wonder why they see half the storage space
sometimes, it is wise to take your pc or laptop to a repair facility in order to get proper assistance. if you find yourself beating your head against a wall for days on an issue, just bite the bullet and consult a technician. some challenges are actually malfunctions.
turn you laptop off, press and hold f2 key, turn your laptop on, keeping f2 held down, BIOS should open! (5sec max) or listen to the 6min40 sec video on how to do it your choice
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Goodness for 4mins 40sec ur just rambling on.
Please everybody just start from 4:42sec
Hero
Yes, thank you SOOOOOO much for helping everyone with your... i mean, my solution.
I love that I have to resort to praying someone has uploaded a video on how to get into the Viao laptop bios because Sony doesn't even properly document these things!!! Thank you so much!
THANK YOU!!! Ive been working on my laptop all day trying to install Ubuntu and i could not find any way to get into my BIOS! Finally after a long day it works because of this video. Thank you sir.
i has press assist buton but stil show "operating system not found" and i found this tutorial really work, thank u so much dude, god bless u
This is a very helpful video; thanks for uploading this. He doesnt actually tell you how to boot into the BIOS until 4:45. This videos deserves a "like". Thanks again hiertechnologies.
THANKS!!! I tried everything and had no luck before finding your video. You saved me :). At first I thought it didn't work either, because holding F2 while powering produced high, constant pitching sound but after 0,5 minute it stopped and BIOS opened :D
Thanks for sharing. I didn't know it was S-version of vaio. I simply also couldn't find solution anywhere, because those suggested simply didn't work. Yours finally came through. Thanks again for sharing this with us!
Thanks for posting this! I tried to update the bios on my system only to discover that the computer could no longer find the OS! In my case, I had to trasfer the OS from a DVD to a flash drive and hit F11 repeatedly while powering on. Then, I could only hit F2 one time before Windows began to book from the flash drive. At first, I hit F2 repeatedly and it didn't work--but just once did the trick! Would have NEVER gotten this thing working myself without your tip!
thank you so much! It help me a lot... we have same laptop... After so many attempts in searching how to enter this is just the answer of my problem... thank you again...
I OWE YOU MY LIFE !!!! Lol ive been searching forever on how to get in BIOS on this sony vaio , THANK YOU!!!
I've been confused and frustrated for hours trying to get into my bios. thank you so so much!
THANK YOU SO MUCH,
I've searched alottt but no answer until I watched ur video
Absolutely great, thank you so much! Took a long time to (finally) find a solution for such a trivial problem. I can't believe Sony making it so hard to simply enter the d@mn BIOS. Your solution, accompanied with good commentary, did the trick.
Thanks again!
Thank you so much. Spent a lot on Google. You were the only one who helped!
Legacy tip was what I needed to get my T series vaio to take the recovery disc. Very helpful. Thanks!!
Thanks bro, your efforts are appreciated as it helped me getting in the BIOS for vaio E series laptop, cause i also wasted some time searching. but u saved the rest of the time that might as well be wasted... thanks a lot
Ha ha ha hah, it seems so easy but still 4 hours after midnight, I ran into you it worked it works it works. THANK YOU
Worked for me. Thank you a lot! Installing windows 8.1 to a friend and spent hours looking this up on the internet. thanks a lot
Brilliant! F2 worked the very first time! Thanks so much for your toil and trouble. It is appreciated.
Great tip, thanks. The notebook I was trying it on (svs 15XXX) I had to power on in pretty much as soon as the power led went on press and hold F2 and that worked (holding F2 then powering on did not work).
Tx broo :))
Thank you soooooooooo much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would have never figured this out by myself. you saved me!!!!! Sony computers are so confusing!
Thanks so much! I have been struggling with this exact problem on the same model of laptop for hours! Very useful video!!
Thank you for posting this. Saved me the time you spent to figure that out! Very much appreciated.
Glad I could help.
Tnx a thousand times for taking the time to share this! You helped me out bigtime!
just be thankfull hes taken the time to tell us something noone else knows
I just tried the F11+Power but seeing this made me go back and try again if it were that 50% chance.. and it was third time the charm. Finally getting to install Win10.
It was a lot easier on my S-Series. With the laptop off, I pressed the "Assist" button above the keyboard. In a few seconds the laptop started and after a few more seconds a menu appeared. This menu included a Start BIOS option.
thank you so much we had the same problems and couldnt find an answer you are the man
Very good u r best
Thank you so much cz when this happen to me I was think I lost my laptop and ur video help me thanks again bro
Awesome video very helpful.
Thanks
Thank you omg we were so frustrated you saved $200
LIFE SAVER!!! Thank you very much for the post.
thank you for going the extra mile for us.
one question do you like the machine personally.
You are a genius .. Thanks man, I was trying to figure it out
You are e best
It didn't annoy me. Thank you for this video and thank you for the explanation.
Hi, Thanks for this video. It doesn't work on my S serie Vaio but helps me to find the way to open the BIOS.
On mine I have to press and hold the Assist button and then press the power button.
For those who want to quickly skip to the solution: how to enter BIOS on Sony Vaio S-Series Laptop (4:38)
thanks a lot... it was truly helpful. keep this good things up sir!
You are the best , Man , can`t thank you enough realy
Thank you so much, you saved me a lot of time
thnx buddy, this video was super helpful :)
I have a Sony as well. I went through all the step on this video but I hit a wall when you stated to changed the Boot Mode to Legacy. My computer does give me that options. It only has External Device boot and Network boot.
saved my time. thanks..
Don't press the power button to start the laptop. Press the 'assist' button INSTEAD of the power button. This will boot your PC into the tech menu. From there you can select start from CD. Job done.
Jason Smart Not all versions offer CD boot in the Assist menu, only those that don't have on-disk recovery images. Apparently Sony considers it unsupported to install an OS from external media on machines with internal recovery (probably because it bypasses all the revenue-generating bloatware included in the recovery images).
have the same laptop i've been trying to get an answer how to without any result i thank you very very well
F2+Assist worked for me. Thanks for the video
thank you bro.. you're saviour...!!
sorry to. hear that... perhaps you have a keyboard issue. can you post a video response showuing the failure? I'll see if I can help.
Thank you. Worked well
F2 and turned it on worked on a VGN-FW21L many thanks!
Hey, I'm glad that i was able to help. I have been told I should start leaving videos, so i guess I will.
Dude Thanks a lot.. you just saved my day.. Thanks again :)
Thanks you help me alot :)
Hi Thanks for your help. I finally got to bios to work, now my problem is that once I am installing window I have been clicking on repair by going to x:\windows\system32\cmd .exe to partition the hard drive, but is nothing like the videos. and that's when you can help me on how to partition the hard drive kus like I say its totally different form a video I watched
It worked !!! thank you for sharing.
Thank you you saved my life
Thank you. For my it was VERY helpful!
Ultimate Sir👍.
I also had the same problem on my S Series but I had to hold the "Assist" and the "F2" buttons at the same time then turn it on.
Wowww thankyou verymuch ู^_^
Thank you sir.. :) Its Working :)
very helpful.. spent to much time in google pressing all buttons etc...trying to boot from usb...
also i have one question regarding E series VPCEB44EN vaio that the factory config for ram was DDR3 2+1 3gb ram, 1gb ram got burned out now the question here is can i use2 gb of ram in place of 1 gb and upgrade my ram config from 2+1i.e. 3GB to 2+2 i.e. 4GB ... can i??
Such a time saver, thanks
We have used Acronis 11 Home for this and it seems to work great.
Great!!!! Tnx Man!
Thank you so much! i cant explain my thanks, this worked perfect for my vaio netbook for installing Ubuntu :)
i think i am gonna do that kus this problem its new for me, never had anything like that before. thanks
Easy, press the Assist key to start sony menu and choose option BIOS!
Thank you, you nailed it.
Thanks a lot for uploading this
i would like to get into the bios but i don't anything on the screen at all and i know it works because i interrupeted the recovery process n now i can even see the screen on. when u say windows media r u refering the wi dows installation dvd or its supposed to be window media the one u use to listen music??
Sony totally suck, infinitely annoyed when I had problems and can't find any answers myself. Thought I bought a good product with a renown company. Appreciate the video!
Holding Assist and F2 worked for me. Model S.
good
OK...so I have a sony vaio laptop model PCG-61a11L or VPCEG (one of those) it has the assist key, anyways I tried what you put on this along with a lot of other ways I heard of and it ultimately leads me straight to the "enter bios password" screen... I want to smash the damn thing because I don't know what else to do!!!
Hey yu just earn a like. Great job
You...are...a..star!
Thank you very much
Do you have any video about keyboard replacement?
thank u boss i learned to enter bios
Very helpful, good work!
Can you please explain how to unlock the bios (InsydeH2O rev 3.7) to get legacy boot? I've been bashing my head on the wall for almost 12 hours straight. Thanks!
thanks for the video, do you know how to clone an hdd to an ssd? i have a problem with this and nobody seems to know how to do it even went to a local store and they couldn't help me either. i called sony and they couldn't give me an proper answer all they said was that the harddrive is custom made. after my friends give it a few tries without succes i gived up.
Thanks a lot Dude !!!!
You saved my day there !!!!!
Thank you, it's a excelent tip
My SVSA2A, with computer off, press and hold Assist button only. Computer starts, brings up menu. Can select to enter bios from there. If you're vaio has one of those raid SSD modules, and you bought regular 2.5" SSD with proper cable, you can get into the raid controller from the bios before switching over the drive and break the raid. Many had installed a drive and wonder why they see half the storage space
You safe me!!!! Thanks
thank you so much! it worked perfectly!
Great jobs !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you.
thanks!
thanks a lot man
thankyou so much
Thanks for the help!
thanks, looking to enable VT-x in bios on my Vaio so i can run VMware ws 10. Thanks!!
At last! Thank you man!
Thank you
Thanks! Helped alot, mate!
thx dude
Yo I’m brooo thank you soooooo much dude I love u
sometimes, it is wise to take your pc or laptop to a repair facility in order to get proper assistance. if you find yourself beating your head against a wall for days on an issue, just bite the bullet and consult a technician. some challenges are actually malfunctions.
awww yes f2 key first then power button thx man
turn you laptop off, press and hold f2 key, turn your laptop on, keeping f2 held down, BIOS should open! (5sec max)
or listen to the 6min40 sec video on how to do it
your choice