need help i gotta enable secure boot in gigabyte bios and it locks me inside the bios when i do

[dark lichen]

help me anyone!

@high rock

[high rock]

Is there anything to scroll down to?

And what motherboard?

[dark lichen]

and i can't scroll no

if i disable csm it shows secure boot yk

[high rock]

Thats what i was about to say

Then to enable it (secure boot) then save and exit

Ggs fams

[dark lichen]

it doesnt work

i mean

enabling secure boot works

but

it locks me inside the bios

i can't leave if i do so

@high rock

[high rock]

Hmm

Seeing some things about needing the drive to be in gpt format vs mbr if running a legacy setup but not 100% certain ill swing back through if I find anything unless another comes along

[dark lichen]

alright i guess

i tried so many dif things

i just can't get it to work

i wanna play valorant but since i switched to windows 11 i can't play it because of the vanguard anti cheat

[high rock]

Re enable csm to enter windows and show your drive properties

Autocorrect is brutal today

[dark lichen]

how do i do that

[high rock]

From within windows open the file manager (file folder) then click my pc on the left hand tabs and right click on your main drive and select properties from the window it opens

Then take a Pic or windows printscreen

[dark lichen]

this?

i didn't understand what you meant

[high rock]

My mistake that doesnt show it I suppose, click the search tab and type in disk partion ill drop a visual how to check

https://youtu.be/3lAYgl_eBlQ?si=sOO4Eo2XkRWcGP7N

This is just to check what it is* dont convert anything or itll delete everything on the drive with this tool*

[dark lichen]

@high rock

its gpt

i need to convert it into mbr?

[high rock]

No, its in the right format. Not sure why secure boot wont allow you to boot then

Ill have to leave for another that may have more expierence with the issue, but i wish you lucks 🍀 . Ofc if I find something ill swing back in here and ping ya

[dark lichen]

@high rock

what do you think?

[high rock]

If that works , but not sure

[dark lichen]

alright

thank you for helping anyways

[dark lichen]

@high rock worm do you think if i restart my pc or install windows it will fix it?

[dense bloom]

You should do a reinstall of windows and make sure csm is disabled in bios

[dark lichen]

i need to disable my csm before i reinstall windows?

@dense bloom

[cyan sundial]

Yes

[dark lichen]

huh there's a problem

i can't even do that

[dark lichen]

how fun

all i wanted to do is be able to play valorant

can't enable secure boot

and i can't even reset my fucking pc now

[cyan sundial]

are you trying to reset windows via “reset my pc”?

[dark lichen]

yea

@cyan sundial

[cyan sundial]

You’ll need to completely wipe it and reinstall with a usb

[dark lichen]

yea but what if i don't have a usb

how do i even do that

the thing with usb

[cyan sundial]

Well. You have a couple options

1. Keep secure boot disabled and don’t play valorant until you can procure one
2. Keep secure boot disabled and don’t play valorant indefinitely because it’s a mid game (imo) and basically installs malware as anticheat

[dark lichen]

i wanna reset my pc

how do i do that in my position

reinstall windows*

if i use a usb

i need another computer

or?

[cyan sundial]

video guide:
https://youtu.be/MBCiMK4AmEI
Article:
https://www.howtogeek.com/784979/how-to-create-a-bootable-windows-11-usb-drive/
Bypass Microsoft account requirement (if you care about that)
https://youtu.be/LK75SWX4F2s
Notes: remove other drives besides boot drive when installing. The installer will sometimes put the EFI boot partition on a different drive, forever tethering those 2 drives together with that install

I don’t know if that bypassnro will work anymore as I’ve heard Microsoft removed it. If you don’t care about a Microsoft account, ignore it

[dark lichen]

@cyan sundial

do you know how to update the bios by any chance?

i got gigabyte bios

and i have a usb

[cyan sundial]

Look up your motherboard model + bios

[dark lichen]

yea

downloaded the newest version

what do i do now tho

[cyan sundial]

First check how old your bios is

Reboot and spam delete

[dark lichen]

f12

its f12

newest version is f14

[cyan sundial]

What?

To access the bios?

[dark lichen]

wdym

you asked how old my bios is

its f12

[cyan sundial]

Oh your current version is f12

[dark lichen]

the version

yea

[cyan sundial]

Okay. What usb drive do you have?

[dark lichen]

how many gb you mean?

16

[cyan sundial]

Is it usb 2 or usb 3

[dark lichen]

don't know what that means

[cyan sundial]

Usb 2.0 is an older standard that usually plays nicer with bios updates. It shouldn’t matter but it would be preferred. Anyway, extract the contents of the zip into the root directory of the drive

[dark lichen]

ohj

usb 2.0

flash drive

[cyan sundial]

Cool

[dark lichen]

wait lemme redownload it rq

this right?

[cyan sundial]

Yeah

[dark lichen]

am i supposed to extract it?

[cyan sundial]

Yes. Extract the contents into the top level of the usb drive. Do no folders

[dark lichen]

so right now i gotta extract from here right

extract all

i extracted all

what do i do now tho

[cyan sundial]

Open the read me

[dark lichen]

i have no idea what this means btw

[cyan sundial]

That’s fine. reboot and go into the bios. Btw, do you have a ups? Uninterruptible power supply?

[dark lichen]

idk what the last part means

i'll go to bios and talk from my phone

[cyan sundial]

That’s fine.

[dark lichen]

Alr I’m here

What do I do?

[cyan sundial]

Is there a bios or qflash option on the main menu?

[cyan sundial]

Go to the bios menu

[dark lichen]

How

[cyan sundial]

This is it

[dark lichen]

Ah

Ok

Thank you for helping btw appreciate it

[cyan sundial]

No problem

Is this a button?

[dark lichen]

Nope

[cyan sundial]

Let me check something

[dark lichen]

I

K

[cyan sundial]

Gigabyte decided to be different.

Reboot and press the end key

[dark lichen]

Yea😭

End key?

I have a 60% keyboard

[cyan sundial]

Uhhh. Find a full size keyboard?

[dark lichen]

I don’t think I have any tbh

Lemme check

I don’t have any

Nvm I do

@cyan sundial

[cyan sundial]

Aight

Click update bios

[cyan sundial]

Click on this dropdown

[dark lichen]

I don’t think I even placed the thing I downloaded inside the usb

[cyan sundial]

I told you to extract the files into the usb

So you didn’t

Boot back into widneos and put the bios file on the drive

[dark lichen]

You told me to read the thing I think

[cyan sundial]

^

[dark lichen]

I gotta put this inside?

It’s extracted already

[cyan sundial]

The .f14 file

[dark lichen]

Yeah

I extracted it tho

[cyan sundial]

Yes, put it in the drive

[dark lichen]

It’s fine right?

Alr

[cyan sundial]

That’s fine. Extracting it into the drive saves the step of moving it afterwards

[dark lichen]

So now after it’s inside

I gotta go in bios and spam end key

Right

[cyan sundial]

Back to qflash

[cyan sundial]

Is your usb drive sandisk? And where is it plugged in on your pc?

[dark lichen]

How can I check if it’s sandisk

Oh it does

It’s sandisk

The red usb thingy

[cyan sundial]

Try the “A:Unknown device” option

[dark lichen]

K

[cyan sundial]

Oh wait I’m so dumb, I forgot the formatting. Boot back windows and reformat the usb as fat32.

[dark lichen]

Huh

[cyan sundial]

Right click on the drive in windows > format > make sure it says fat32, and quick format was checked

[cyan sundial]

No you put the zipped folder in

It needs to be the .f14 file

Is that what I’m seeing?

[dark lichen]

Huh how do I put the f14

Your probably right

Idk how to put the f14 file without being zipped tho

Should I just put a none extracted one?

[cyan sundial]

This file

[dark lichen]

Oh

[cyan sundial]

Copy it and paste it into the drive

[dark lichen]

It’s in

It needs to be alone inside the usb drive?

[cyan sundial]

That’s the only one that matters

Alright, 3rd times the charm, back to qflash

[dark lichen]

Alr

[cyan sundial]

There it is

[dark lichen]

Where

H

Oh

I see it

Oh fuck

I pressed on it

[cyan sundial]

That’s good

Select it

[dark lichen]

I swear to gosh

God

If my pc turns off somehow

I will crash out

[cyan sundial]

Cool, it’s updating.

[dark lichen]

Yeah

Do you think that’s why secure boot enabled is locking me in?

Because my bios was outdated

?

[cyan sundial]

F12 to f14 doesn’t seem like much of a difference

[dark lichen]

Damn so it doesn’t matter?

[cyan sundial]

Yeah 2019 to 2021 isn’t that much

But it’s fine

[dark lichen]

Why is my bios locking me inside when I enable secure boot tho

That’s the real question

[cyan sundial]

Because windows 11 is a broken piece of garbage

[dark lichen]

Fr bro

Should I check

[cyan sundial]

Before we continue with this fresh install, is there anything on your boot drive you don’t want to lose? Like documents, pictures, videos, etc?

[dark lichen]

I just bought it

2 hours ago

So ig not

[cyan sundial]

You bought this pc 2 hours ago?

[dark lichen]

The drive

I have this pc for around 6 years

wtf so many things

[cyan sundial]

So the windows install is new?

[dark lichen]

I think it worked yeah

Should I unplug the usb drive?

[cyan sundial]

Okay now exit bios to make sure windows boots

[dark lichen]

It did

I saw it already

[cyan sundial]

Do you have any other usb drives?

[dark lichen]

Nope

[cyan sundial]

Go ahead and leave it plugged in. If we’re reinstalling windows, we’ll need to use it again for windows

[dark lichen]

Oh that thing

I already reinstalled windows

[cyan sundial]

2 hours ago?

[dark lichen]

Like 5

5 hours I mean

[cyan sundial]

Okay. Try disabling csm and enabling secure boot

[dark lichen]

Ok

Wait uh

Should I unplug the usb drive?

And I can’t enable secure boot for some reason

[cyan sundial]

Did you disable csm?

[dark lichen]

Yea

[cyan sundial]

Where was the secure boot option before?

[dark lichen]

Same place

Oh ok why

[cyan sundial]

I don’t see it here

[dark lichen]

I know why

Dw got it to work

Needed to out standard

Put

[cyan sundial]

Aight

Does it boot now with secure boot on?

[dark lichen]

Let’s see

It doesn’t

Omg bro I will lose my mind

This isn’t supposed to be that hard

I don’t think not having factory’s on authorized timestamps and osrecovery signature is right

I think not should have factory as well

Both*

Is this normal btw?

Hello

Did you leave me?😭 @cyan sundial

[cyan sundial]

Sorry

Try this

[dark lichen]

Do you have any idea what this means?

@cyan sundial

[cyan sundial]

Discord compression destroyed that so I can’t read anything

Anyway, if the install isn’t valuable, disable secure boot again and we’ll make a bootable usb to start fresh

[dark lichen]

Wdym a bootable usb to start fresh

Do you really think you can fix the secure boot lock problem?

Not being toxic ofc

Just genuinely asking

I’m disabled secure boot and went into windows again

[cyan sundial]

I’m going to hope so

[dark lichen]

I*

Ok

So what do I do now

I’m in windows

[cyan sundial]

video guide:
https://youtu.be/MBCiMK4AmEI
Article:
https://www.howtogeek.com/784979/how-to-create-a-bootable-windows-11-usb-drive/
Notes: remove other drives besides boot drive when installing. The installer will sometimes put the EFI boot partition on a different drive, forever tethering those 2 drives together with that install

[dark lichen]

Which video am I supposed to watch

To be able to enable secure boot without getting locked in bios

[cyan sundial]

After creating the USB, we will go back into the bios, enable secure boot, and then reinstall windows, and hopefully it will boot with secure boot on

[dark lichen]

I gotta reinstall windows again?

And I have no idea how to create a usb

@cyan sundial

[cyan sundial]

This video and article will explain

Make sure that no other internal drives are connected to your computer

Do you have a separate game drive or data drive?

[dark lichen]

The only usb drive I have is the one I bought 3 hours ago

[void dust]

it needs to be like atleast 8 gigs

also reinstalling windows means you will lose all data on your current one so you have to reinstall and relogin into everything

[dark lichen]

will it fix the lock problem when i enable secure boot tho?

if it does i will do it

and i have a 16gb usb drive

[void dust]

im not sure on that

but if you do decide to reinstall windows turn secure boot on before booting into the usb

i think like that windows installs itself with secure boot auto enabled

[dark lichen]

the thing is if i enable it it will still lock me inside

so i can't leave it at all if its enabled for some reason

[void dust]

hmm

can you save changes and reboot

[dark lichen]

what changes

[void dust]

in the bios when you enable secure boot does it let you save the changes and reboot

[dark lichen]

if i enable secure boot and "save & exit" instead of letting me into windows again it just gives me an error and makes me stay in bios

[void dust]

hmm

did you post a picture of the error so i can see

[dark lichen]

yea one sec

[void dust]

okay

[void dust]

i see

have you tried resseting the secure boot keys

there should be a setting in ur bios for that

[dark lichen]

I did that

It didn’t work

[void dust]

wierd

they should be microsofts keys

[dark lichen]

Yea that’s what I said

They say factory right

The keys

[void dust]

yeah

do you dualboot another os like linux

[dark lichen]

Wdym

[void dust]

do you use something else then windows on your pc

also do you have UEFI enabled in ur bios

that could also be messing up your secure boot

[dark lichen]

Huh

Uefi is csm right?

[void dust]

no

it should be in the boot section in ur bios

you might see it as legacy on your bios if its set to the wrong thing

[dark lichen]

Where is it

[void dust]

its in UEFI

u have it selected

[dark lichen]

Oh

[void dust]

only onther thing is loading the keys from the os

[dark lichen]

Should I disable it

[void dust]

send me a picture of this

[void dust]

no leave it as is

[dark lichen]

Wdym a picture of what

[void dust]

the enroll file system thing

[dark lichen]

K

[void dust]

try going in the first one

the HD(part1, sig?)\

and show me its contents

[void dust]

go in EFI

and there should be a folder called BOOT or Microsoft i forgot which one exactly

[dark lichen]

Which one do I press

[void dust]

go in microsoft

and then go in boot if its in there

[dark lichen]

Pressed boot after I pressed Microsoft btw

[void dust]

hmm

go back and press boot

[dark lichen]

K

[void dust]

the boot that you saw before clicking on the microsoft thing

[void dust]

that should be it i think

click that bootx64.efi

[dark lichen]

Yes?

[void dust]

yes

[cyan sundial]

Something is wrong with the boot partition of this windows install. Reinstalling should make the boot partition work with secure boot

[void dust]

then enable secure boot and save and restart

it should work

[void dust]

holdon i mightve cooked (hopefully)

[dark lichen]

Should I keep it on custom?

Or standard

[void dust]

send me a picture

i dont have an option like that in my bios

[dark lichen]

I swear to god if it works

[cyan sundial]

Thought about that but decided to stick with what I know and give a guide for reinstalling

[dark lichen]

The custom thingy

[void dust]

yeah try custom

[dark lichen]

Alr

[void dust]

save and reboot

[dark lichen]

Wish me luck

[void dust]

hopefully it works

[void dust]

im wishing you the best of luck

[dark lichen]

NO FUCKING WAY

[void dust]

worked?

[dark lichen]

YOUR MY SAVIOR

HOLY SHIT YOUR ACTUALLY GOATED

[void dust]

ur welcome mate

[cyan sundial]

Nice

I hate windows

[void dust]

bruh all this conversation for just that lol

[dark lichen]

Creeper I apocalypse you as well

Omg thank you both

[void dust]

it might be because he installed windows with it diasabled

[cyan sundial]

No problem

[void dust]

no problem

[dark lichen]

I have nothing to say

I’m fucking shocked

[cyan sundial]

That’s definitely why. I still hate windows. For secure boot reasons and Microsoft reasons

[dark lichen]

I’m so shocked you have no idea

The his has to be a dream

I tried fixing this for the last 3 days

And you somehow figured it out

[void dust]

i hate it cuz it sucks down ram so much and it takes up a lot of space

[void dust]

nah i think you just didnt try the begginer steps but

what matters now is that its fixed

[dark lichen]

How can I thank you

Genuinely how

[cyan sundial]

Secure boot keys are not something most people mess with

[cyan sundial]

We’re all just here because we love tech and helping each other. No payment or anything for tech support

[dark lichen]

i swear this server has to be the best discord server oat

[void dust]

seeing that it works is enough for me

[dark lichen]

everyone here is goated and know so much about tech

[void dust]

yeah

[dark lichen]

can i add you

[cyan sundial]

Imma head out now, good luck on valorant!

[dark lichen]

thank you so much

both of you

[void dust]

yeah

[dark lichen]

it helped me so much

thank you omg

finallyyy

[void dust]

no problem

[dark lichen]

Bro😭 I have no idea what happened but I needed a recovery key for some reason

And I did some stuff

And now I’m locked inside the bios

Again

Not because of secure boot

Just locked in there

No error no nothing

If I press save and exit it just makes me rejoin bios

And I restart my pc I can’t either

[void dust]

you use bitlocker?

[dark lichen]

Idk what even is it honestly