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Bumping for a question regarding rebooting my laptop, I only have access to f2 and f12 otherwise the computer freezes on the login screen, any PC experts here that could help me and my Alienware 15R3 out? My goal is to wipe everything and reinstall windows. I don't care about losing any data.
 
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Bumping for a question regarding rebooting my laptop, I only have access to f2 and f12 otherwise the computer freezes on the login screen, any PC experts here that could help me and my Alienware 15R3 out? My goal is to wipe everything and reinstall windows. I don't care about losing any data.
So you can only press F2 or F12 otherwise the computer freezes? Does it freeze immediately at the login screen? Can you press F11 or whatever during boot to get into Advanced Startup Options?
 
Bumping for a question regarding rebooting my laptop, I only have access to f2 and f12 otherwise the computer freezes on the login screen, any PC experts here that could help me and my Alienware 15R3 out? My goal is to wipe everything and reinstall windows. I don't care about losing any data.

Do this:


Write it down somewhere or take a picture of it.

Then do this:


Turn your computer off, plug the USB back in.

Then go into your bios settings (mash F2 as your computer is turning on), then select boot from USB as the priority. Save the settings then the computer will restart.

It should boot to the windows 10 USB drive, follow the instructions and do your clean install of windows.
 
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