| Mainboard Vendor | Laptop | Desktop computer | |||||
| Brand | Boot Keys | Brand | Boot Keys | Tips | Brand | Boot Keys | Tips |
| Asus | F8 | Lenovo | F12, F10, Novo button, F12+Fn+F11 | Lenovo | F12, F8, F10 | ||
| Gigabyte | F12 | Acer | Esc, F12, F9 | The "F12" must be enabled in BIOS. | HP | F12, Esc | Press Esc, then F9 for Boot Menu. |
| MSI | F11 | Asus | ESC, F8 | Disable "Fast Boot" and "Secure Boot Control" in order to boot from MBR formatted media. | Acer | F12 | |
| Biostar | F9 | HP | ESC, F9 | Press Esc, then F9 for Boot Menu. Select "Patriot Memory" on the Boot Option Menu. | Dell | F12 | |
| Soyo | ESC, F12 | Thinkpad | F12 | First disable "Secure Boot", and choose "UEFI Only" and set CSM as "Yes in "UEFI/Legacy Boot". | Asus | F8 | |
| Colorful | ESC, F11 | Dell | F12 | First disable "Secure Boot" and change "Boot List option" as "Legacy", enable "Load Legacy Option Rom" | Benq | F8 | |
| Intel | F10 | Samsung | F12, Esc, F2 | Must first disable fast boot in BIOS/UEFI to boot from USB drive or use F2 boot menu. | Tsinghua Tongfang | F12 | |
| Onda | F11 | Toshiba | F12 | Change "AHCI" as "complete" in Boot> Advanced> System. | Founder | F12 | |
| UNIKA | ESC | IBM | F12 | Hasee | F12 | ||
| ASL | F10 | Gateway | F12 | Founder | F12 | ||
| Asrock | F11 | Gigabyte | F12 | Haier | F12 | ||
| Foxconn | ESC, F12 | Benq | F9 | Compad | Esc, F9 | ||
| Gamen | F11, F12 | Sony | F11, ESC, F10 | Enable "External Drive Boot" in "Advanced" first. | Fujitsu | F12 | |
| Topstar | F11, F12 | Fujitsu | F12 | The "F12" must be enabled in BIOS. | |||
| Yeston | F8 | MSI | F11 | ||||
| CTHIM | F12 | eMachines | F12 | ||||
| Jetway | ESC | Hasee | F12 | ||||
| Elite | ESC, F11 | Tsinghua Tongfang | F12 | ||||
| Maxsun | ESC | Founder | F12 | ||||
| Haier | F12 | ||||||
| Compad | Esc, F9 | ||||||
Examples:
Example 1. Set Dell laptop or computer boot from USB Drive.
Insert the USB stick into a USB port and start or restart computer. When F12 = Boot Menu appears in the upper-right corner of the screen, press <F12>. When Boot Option Menu appears, choose USB stick to boot from.
Example 2. Set HP laptop to boot from USB flash drive.
Insert USB memory stick to computer and start or restart HP computer. When HP Logo appears on screen, press F9 to enter BOOT MENU (Boot Device Options), and then choose USB memory stick to boot from.
Example 3. Set Acer laptop to boot from USB flash drive.
Insert USB memory stick to Acer laptop and start or restart Acer laptop. When Acer logo appears on screen, press F12to enter Boot Device Options, and then choose USB memory stick to boot from.
Note: For traditional BIOS, follow the examples above to set Dell/HP/Acer laptop boot from USB flash drive is OK. But for UEFI BIOS, some settings should be disabled or enabled first in BIOS (follow "Tips" in above table ), then we can set laptop or desktop boot from USB flash drive successfully with boot keys.
