There's a physical button on some motherboards (such as ASUS) that will get you into UEFI. You might research your mobo specs and see if that is an option.
There are other weird things....
Some keyboards won't let you enter BIOS or UEFI upon bootup. I encountered this with a company that makes some retro IBM selectric keyboards (they sell for fifty or sixty bucks) for modern desktops. I corresponded with them and they were pretty definitive that they didn't care enough about the issue to modify their product, even though it was a retro specialty thing.
Anyhow extra keyboards is something many of us have so you might try a different one. You might also research alternative commands used for UEFI, on mine I believe there are at...