A few months ago, I got given a laptop with a very interesting condition. The BIOS setup menu was supposedly inaccessible, and nothing apart from the default boot option works. Time to investigate to see what is actually happening and what we can do about it. The status quo When starting the laptop without doing anything special, the default option boots just fine, as expected. However, while pressing F2 during boot causes a beep tone, it ends up falling through to the same behavior as if nothin...