#Win Dev Kit - Recovery USB not displaying anything

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quartz plover
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This one is bit of a doozy. What lead to it all is me disabling then re-enabling secure boot.

After that, Bitlocker wouldn't let me in without my recovery key - which I really was intending to upload to my MS account but had forgot about.

I do have all of my important data backed up, so I was like "okay, I'll do a factory reset". Pressed esc for additional bitlocker recovery options, screen went blank (using main DP output).

At this point I was thinking that the Bitlocker options were screwed somehow. This is an experimental platform, so things like this happen.

I flashed a recovery USB with the proper dev kit recovery image - same issue as with the Bitlocker options. Totally blank. One thing worth mentioning is that in both cases (the bitlocker options screen and the recovery USB), I did get a few blue lines of pixels.

I've tried using the alternative display option over USB-C, that works even less. Doesn't even get to the main Bitlocker key screen. I've tried disabling secure boot, re-enabling it with MS keys only, etc etc.

(If you're not familiar with the dev kit, it's an ARM-based Windows 11 machine. It will not boot Linux or other Windows ISOs besides the recovery image I've already flashed.)

quartz plover
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I figured it out.