How to enter BIOS

Framework Desktop
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I use a wireless keyboard and found with my normal desktop that if its plugged it it works with bios, but not if wireless. So I plugged it into my framework desktop on back port, and hammering F2 and del does nothing.

I just am not sure if its my keyboard, or if I need a different bios key than the laptops. I also could not find this digging around in the documentation for the desktop.

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spamming the F2 key is the way to get to bios also on the desktop. So its propably something with your keyboard that it doesn’t wake up fast enough or something like that.

Wireless (bluetooth) will never work, with a dongle its possible

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I will dig up a wired keyboard, but it is strange that this keyboard when plugged in wakes up 3 other computer from bios. That is plugged in via a usb cable, and the dongle not in. Also only thing it ever connects to via bluetooth is the steamdeck. Otherwise, it is wired or using its lightspeed high polling rate usb.

Oh and it sends typing via the usb cable, as it works with just that and no connection. It was how I have been using the Framework desktop, with the wireless dongle in my main desktop. When I unplug it, my main desktop sees the keyboard…when plugged in it does not.

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Ok - weird twist, front USB ports work with my keyboard and the wired USB one dug up. The ones on the back of the motherboard (what I was using) don’t let ether keyboard in when I spam F2. But the front USB C to A worked fine.

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I bought a Framework Desktop recently and I have a similar issue:

I have a Logitech Bolt USB Dongle connected to my Belkin Thunderbolt 3 Dock. I am unable to enter the BIOS, or switch the OS in GRUB. The Wireless Keyboard only works when the OS is booted.

I also tried to connect the dongle to the front and back USB stick, but nothing works.

For now I am using my JetKVM to enter the UEFI for now^^

I had no issue with my previous, also AMD system.

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By contrast, I have a Logi keyboard and mouse connected via Logitech dongle plugged into the USB hub of my Dell monitor (which is connected to the rear USB A port of the Desktop). No problems connecting at all. Can get into BIOS and make Grub selections without issue.

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I can confirm that my MX Keys keyboard, connected with a Logitech unifying recevier, can F2 into UEFI and navigate the interface along with the mouse.

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I have a wireless keyboard via dongle and it works fine. It’s a NIZ. I have it connected via a USBC hub and it works fine. It’s in the front.

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So strange. …

For me, a Logitech keyboard using a Unifying receiver would never work to enter bios on my old Intel silicon systems, many Intel CPU & chipset generations apart. It wasn’t until I bought into the Masters series using the Bolt dongle, that it worked on Intel systems 5 generations apart.

These reports that Logi keyboards using the Unifying receiver working is a real surprise. Looking forward to trying it tomorrow.

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I never had issues getting into bios with the unifying receiver. One thing to keep in mind though is that some logitec keyboards have the f-keys mapped to the alternative functions by default so you may need to press fn and the f-key to get the bios. I got in the habbit of spamming both since fn-lock was kinda unreliable.

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Yea, I’m floored on two accounts:

  1. It was completely obvious to me that I needed to press FN to activate the key as the function F2 key and not the primary action key, the first time I tried the K830 keyboard on our FW mainboard. Was both floored then thrilled I got into bios. So I now have my convenient, compact keyboard solution to get into the FW mainboard bios whenever I need it w/o needing to go the wired route.
  2. I realize now I had been such a “dolt” all these years! That prior it must never had occurred to me to press FN as I pressed F2 to get into bios on the two machines where I use a Unifying receiver. Or when I had tried it, I must have simply been too slow; as I missed FN+F2 the first time on my old PCs where I normally use the two K830 kb. But that implies yes, I eventually got the timing right and it does indeed work on the PCs where I thought it didn’t. :wink:

I love the super compactness of the K830 keyboards for light (non-text type heavy) convenient portable use. It’s perfect to get into the FW mainboard bios and make minor changes.

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There is a special spot in hell reserved for however thought it would be funny to have the alternative functions as default on any platform.

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For supported Logitech keyboards, you can use Logi Options+ to set function key option as primary configuration.

I haven’t personally tested, but 3.04 bios update lists Bolt receiver keyboard compatibility for entering UEFI.

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