Asus T100 Boot key combinations

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I've had my Asus for many years and have used it as a dual boot (Linux / Windows) . Over the years with the windows upgrades it was a Win 10 machine.
I've installed and uninstalled a lot of Linux stuff without problems, until the other night. Not sure what happened but MX21 (which I've had on before) decided to wipe the Windows bootloader from the EFI. I've not been able to install any Windows 8 iso because it wants a key. A key was not provided with the OEM installed system.

The partitions are all GPT.

Oh well this may stay a Linux machine but that means no tablet.

Any ideas????
 
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    sarman_1998
    I've been messing with the new ASUS T100 Transformer T100TA and found a few boot key combinations through trial and error. I hope someone else can make use of them.

    Hold the listed key while powering on the tablet.

    ESC: Boot device selection menu
    DEL: Boot into BIOS Setup (same as F2)
    F2: Boot into BIOS Setup
    F9: Boot into windows recovery mode
    F12: Not sure what this is, it briefly flashes "Launching FFU.efi" then print "Main Start" and sits there
    Vol Down: Boot Device Selection Menu

    I tried each button on the top row of the keyboard plus: tab, alt, ctrl,fn, windows. In case anyone want to try other stuff.
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    sarman_1998
    terminal 7 said:
    not sure why but im drawing a blank here.
    I cant get any bios options regardless of holding escape or f2 or delete while powering up my t100

    cant figure out why?

    And a question - does the bios look like any other or is it just like the "additional options page" you get when booting into recovery options, kinda like a win8 boot screen with efi option or restore etc.

    i assumed i would see a proper bios but i just cant seem to get any key to do a thing - it just boots normally, i do have the latest 220 bios.

    Thanks.
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    With F2 you should see a normal bios screen.
    My guess is that you are doing a shutdown from in win 8, then turning on with the F2 key pressed.

    Try doing a restart from in Win 8 and start holding F2 as soon as the screen goes blank.

    By default win8 has "fast boot" enabled, which means it doesn't do a proper boot from bios when you turn of after a "shutdown" from in win8

    Hope that helps.
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    ThorburnJ
    sarman_1998 said:
    I've been messing with the new ASUS T100 Transformer T100TA and found a few boot key combinations through trial and error. I hope someone else can make use of them.

    Hold the listed key while powering on the tablet.

    ESC: Boot device selection menu
    DEL: Boot into BIOS Setup (same as F2)
    F2: Boot into BIOS Setup
    F9: Boot into windows recovery mode
    F12: Not sure what this is, it briefly flashes "Launching FFU.efi" then print "Main Start" and sits there
    Vol Down: Boot Device Selection Menu

    I tried each button on the top row of the keyboard plus: tab, alt, ctrl,fn, windows. In case anyone want to try other stuff.
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    Click to collapse

    Very useful. Thanks for those.

    Holding Vol Up with power can help when it doesn't want to boot too IIRC.
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    jonkiji
    HANS4300 said:
    It's a true that ARM chip is an essentially simplified AMD CPU chip developed for portable devices such as smart phones, tablets etc. where performance requirements aren't so high and lower power consumption is important. I also understand, that apps and executable or install files for Windows PC are not compatibile for Windows ARM platform because of insufficient capability.
    But how is possible, that ASUS T100TA with (supposedly) "ARM" CPU chip is seamlessly able to run with full featured Windows 10 PRO (for PC)... ?
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    ARM is essentially not a simplified AMD cpu, other than both starting with the letter 'A' the similarity stops. One is CISC architecture the other is RISC. There's no single intersection between the two, AMD has not been involved with the development of the architecture.

    The ASUS T100 uses an Intel atom cpu. which is an 64 bit x86 core from Intel. (but since the T100 only has a 32bit UEFI, it's impossible to run a 64bit OS).
    The T100 is not a PC, since it's using SDIO for internal communication instead of PCIE, making it more a tablet than a PC, this is why it's a bother getting linux to work on the device, since SDIO support is rather experimental and immature.
    Windows 10 (and 8) is suited to run on x86 cpu's with SDIO connecting everything else.
    Android on the other hand is running a modified Linux kernel making it having to do exactly nothing with windows, and the other way around.

    Windows 10 is able to run on the arm architecture btw, look at the surface rt with the tegra, and there should also be a port able to run on the raspberry pi.

    (Addressing a few incorrect statements found in this thread.)
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