Cannot Access Computer
Hello, I have recently come into possession of a barely used Alienware Aurora R8 from a buddy who has moved back to his homeland (who I cannot contact in any way anymore). It’s in fantastic condition from the inside out for general cleanliness reference aswell, if that means anything haha!
But the issue im currently facing with it, is the complete lack of access im finding. First thing i tried was the handy “hold shift and click restart” on the windows login screen to enter WRE and reset from there with a factory wipe. This resulted in the computer just restarting like normal whether i held left or right shift.
Second thing I attempted from here was forcing it into WRE by force resetting my PC on load up. This didnt seem possible because it was fast booting directly to windows login, where I had no window to properly force the shutdown on startup.
After this point I was getting nervous and decided to attempt accessing WRE through a bootable USB drive, so I quickly downloaded a copy onto a fresh drive, only to come to find out that I cannot even enter BIOS with f2 or Boot Mode with f12, because the computer is already skipping all the startup steps and directly booting windows. A few times on bootup when spamming f12, it wouldnt even loadup windows, almost like it was attempting to start the boot menu but couldnt.
So all in all im currently locked out of the account/computer itself, WRE is not booting from any possible source, and I cannot enter Boot Menu or BIOS to diagnose the problem directly.
My question is what can I even attempt at this point? Any “it magic” i need to know about to get over this perfect mix of hurdles?