HP Victus with Endeavour OS not booting up ( display not even powering on )

General system Newbie
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Press F9 repeatedly on boot with usb inserted.

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Okiee.

Edit : No itā€™s not booting up

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How could I access the boot menu at this point of time

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On HP laptops and Iā€™m not sure about the Victus you can recover the Bios by shutting down the computer. Make sure itā€™s plugged in and hold down the windows key and the b key simultaneously and start the computer up holding the keys down until it goes into recovery mode for the Bios.

Warning
I want to warn you though that I donā€™t know if this will cause you to lose any data or Windows completely? I canā€™t guarantee no data loss or anything including whether it will even work. So this would be at your own risk.

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Okie will try it out

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The only way to access the boot menu is to either get into the Bios settings or using the F9 key on boot it is supposed to access the boot menu.

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Unfortunately itā€™s not easy to remove the drives or the battery without some disassembly. Not sure if this is your exact model.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KK_CR7pqDg

Edit:

Warning
Again disassembly would be at your own risk.

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@berserker
I do have an basic HP 14" laptop and i have no issues with it. The boot menu is F9 or to get into the Bios settings is the esc key or the F10 key. I can only say one thing and that is that the UEFI Bios on HP is very basic and is somewhat hard coded to boot Windows. In saying that I donā€™t mean it canā€™t dual boot Linux as i have mine dual boot currently with EndeavourOS and Iā€™ve had many other Linux distroā€™s dual booting on it also.

Edit: I have also updated the UEFI Bios on it numerous times.

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Idk what to do right now

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Yup somehow they have associated windows with bios

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This is not exactly what i meant!

EDit: I do agree with @pebcak that you may need to remove the drive in order to boot and enter the Bios settings screen. This isnā€™t a simple task since you need to remove the bottom panel in order to get access to the drives.

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Whether external display could help with this?? Just a noobā€™s speculation

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Maybe thatā€™s the only way then :sob:

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Mine is a bit different but even then i removed off the bottom panel and.got through the anatomy of it , just a screwdriver is enough itso for removing the disk

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Hopefully you can get the issue resolved.

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