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ASUS UEFI Boot utility and secure boot
Hello,
I have recently just built a rig (and am currently typing this on said rig![:D]( ":D")
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Important specs here are the following:
Asus z97 Sabertooth Mark 1 Motherboard
Msi 780 gtx twin frozr 6GB edition
When I finished building my rig I had a lot of difficulty actually booting, naturally I thought I had done goofed somewhere and began trouble shooting. This turned out not to really be the case. When I removed my graphics card and switched to integrated graphics the computer booted just fine and I got into the UEFI BIOS utility.
Now having done some googling I found that a new feature called secure boot, it likely not recognizing my card and therefore not allowing the computer to boot. I even found the secure boot option in the UEFI BIOS utility. My only problem is that I cant seem to disable it. The option is greyed out.
Anyone have any ideas as to how to disable this thing, or what else could stop my graphics card from working?
It was properly connected to the PCIe slot and all power pins (6 and 8) were properly connected, power supply is evidently working fine since I am typing this now. Both fans were spinning on the graphics card and there were no beebs or warning LEDs from the motherboard. This is what leads me to believe that this "secure boot" is to blame.
The problem is just that there simply is no video output when the card is being used OR when the card is in the computer. (so if the card is in there, then I cant even use integrated graphics. The second the card is physically removed integrated graphics are working just fine and everything else is just dandy)
I have recently just built a rig (and am currently typing this on said rig
) Important specs here are the following:
Asus z97 Sabertooth Mark 1 Motherboard
Msi 780 gtx twin frozr 6GB edition
When I finished building my rig I had a lot of difficulty actually booting, naturally I thought I had done goofed somewhere and began trouble shooting. This turned out not to really be the case. When I removed my graphics card and switched to integrated graphics the computer booted just fine and I got into the UEFI BIOS utility.
Now having done some googling I found that a new feature called secure boot, it likely not recognizing my card and therefore not allowing the computer to boot. I even found the secure boot option in the UEFI BIOS utility. My only problem is that I cant seem to disable it. The option is greyed out.
Anyone have any ideas as to how to disable this thing, or what else could stop my graphics card from working?
It was properly connected to the PCIe slot and all power pins (6 and 8) were properly connected, power supply is evidently working fine since I am typing this now. Both fans were spinning on the graphics card and there were no beebs or warning LEDs from the motherboard. This is what leads me to believe that this "secure boot" is to blame.
The problem is just that there simply is no video output when the card is being used OR when the card is in the computer. (so if the card is in there, then I cant even use integrated graphics. The second the card is physically removed integrated graphics are working just fine and everything else is just dandy)
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To add some more detail to it and for the Linux lovers (windows should have its proper support I suppose, including this shit of Secure Boot)
to make the UEFI boot in native mode on this otherwise very good mainboard (except for the crappy buggy BIOS)
I managed to UEFI boot from a preinstalled SSD (that had a linux/grub EFI installation premade on another PC).
So I guess installing is still bit difficult. I just happen to have the luck to not need to install, and only figure out how to boot this SSD
* remove/clear all keys under boot/secure boot/key management as described above, so the Secure boot state states 'disabled' and the keys are 'unloaded'
* select 'other OS' under boot/secure boot/os Type
* disable boot/fastboot to really load all hardware drivers
* suppose, setting Administrator password is only optional, so no need for that
* important: the crap of ASUS BIOS can't cope with the grub names of the efi files neither the path.. Change this as below:
On your FAT boot partition (in my case)
change
/EFI/gentoo/grubx64.efi
into the default UEFI path
/EFI/boot/bootx64.efi
And BOOM it bootsMy other EVGA board does have its issues too, but it still can cope with the linux entries made by grub2-install
My next MoBo shall be of any other Brand, ASRock seems appealing..
My other EVGA board does have its issues too, but it still can cope with the linux entries made by grub2-install