Category Archives: Hardware

How to get into BIOS on Lenovo laptops

Today it was necessary to go into the BIOS on the Lenovo IdeaPad 110-15IBR laptop (80T7), but when you press all the keys that are usually used to enter the BIOS, the laptop did not respond and the system continued to boot.

As it turned out, in the BIOS of this Lenovo laptop model, the HotKey Mode function is activated as standard and the functional keys are activated instead of the F1-F12 keys.

Therefore, to enter the BIOS, it is necessary to press two Fn and F2 keys simultaneously, if HotKey Mode is disabled, then simply F2.

See also – Function keys Fn on the laptop work the other way around

Kingston SSD Firmware Update

On the test, I will update the SSD firmware of the Kingston SV300S37A 120Gb drive.

1) Download the official utility Kingston SSD Manager with firmware upgrade
https://www.kingston.com/en/support/technical/downloads/90683

2) Run the downloaded utility and if there is a firmware newer, the “Update to firmware …” button will be displayed, and click it to start the update process, which will last a few seconds.

Done, watch the video as I did: