Microsoft Windows 8 refresh has killed my ATIV TAB 3 tablet from Samsung

Pressing the Power button with the left hand volume button should bring you to the BIOS menu

i did that too who ever knew it i am warming to hear that

Shawn - See if you can help me. Samsung did not attempt to help me as I am out of US though the product is under international warranty.

I just couldn't get to the BIOS - it appears to be a fairly simple reset, but no methods let me get to BIOS to disable the secure boot. This is a tablet PC, that has a micro USB, and a bluetooth keyboard. the micro USB doesn't get the power to support a USB keyboard. I tried powering the keyboard externally and connecting the same with the tablet - but again, i couldn't. The tablet doesn't seem to "listen" any of the keystrokes.

Their website manuals talk about pressing the windows button while booting process - but nothing changes here as well. The product doesn't just get to the BIOS. I know that the motherboard and everything works, but just that some internal bios lock is preventing

• this is because if i connect the charger, after a minute or so, the battery display shows up.

Will reimaging the hdd help? for this i think the tablet has to be opened, and the hdd has to be removed. I do not have a samsung version of windows.

Also, this is based on a Clovertrail process Z2760. Can the micro USB port be used to connect a different PC (which I tried), but the device manager shows "Cloverview" under "Other devices" and not installed any drivers. I have a 64 bit PC, and the Win 8 that came with the tablet was 32 bit, and I assume the processor doesn't support 64 bit PC accessing it?! Not sure here. However, when i connect the microUSB to a PC, there is "some" activity in the PC to see that it is a cloverview tablet, which means that the internal connections to the micro USB port are still working. Could be just a SW problem that Microsoft introduced?

Any help here will be much appreciated!! it is like having an expensive brick with me, for now! 

ATIV TAB 3, Model - XE300TZC-K01US

Thank you very much for your reply. This is a samsung ATIV TAB 3 - XE300TZC-K01US

I tried to get to BIOS - using Samsung suggested approach: Power Key + Windows Button, but it wouldn't do anything. I tried several permutations and combinations, including Volumen up+power etc.. Any help will be MUCH appreciated...

Samsung can tell you how to access your BIOS settings and change the security check to disabled.  If I knew the exact model number I'd even look it up for you but I'll let you contact Samsung.