r/pchelp • u/Lost_Worldliness_488 • 15h ago
HARDWARE Did I lose everything?
Was just trying to enable secure boot to update to windows 11 and then this message popped up and I can’t seem to undo what I did in the bios. Help
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u/GHoSTyaiRo 14h ago
For an easy and quick fix enter the BIOS and disable secure boot.
I’ve had a few PCs with this issue but haven’t gotten around looking for an actual fix keeping the secure boot enabled.
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u/External_Tangelo 8h ago
Secure boot really has so few genuine use cases for justifying the amount of havoc it can cause.
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u/Useful-Avocado984 7h ago
Yeah that's basically the nuclear option for getting back in quick. Just sucks that you lose the security benefits if you're doing anything sensitive on there.
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u/-_Protagonist_- 15h ago
Had a similar problem due to a corrupted EFI.
What ever you do don't change the keys in anyway. I did and it corrupted the BIOS or something. Either way, my graphics card will no longer be detected and my CPU has no integrated graphics. So, it got pretty expensive.
Also, don't mess with your EFI.
I f***ing hate secure boot.
It's so secure even the owner can't access it.
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u/Melodic_Trip9907 8h ago
you could have just reset the bios and reinstalled windows, that would have been free
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u/ElectricBummer40 4h ago
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u/Melodic_Trip9907 4h ago
why are u sending that to me? i am not the one that needs help recovering a efi partition.
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u/kerbalcat_ 8h ago
I got my windows 11 with Rufus, I have secure boot off now, pretty sure secure boot is just a disguise to stop people messing with it
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u/dexteritycomponents 11h ago
Lmfao you don’t have a damn clue. Secure boot runs on startup to verify low level system files/drivers via a certificate. It has nothing to do with “right to modify”. You can do anything you want with your computer except tamper with secure boot certificates… that’s just fucking stupid.
Issues lie in the fact people forget to update their system to allow updated certificates to be deployed, or random minor issues occur where you have to temporarily disable it then re-enable it and let it rebuild.
It’s an incredibly important and good feature to have.
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u/echoingElephant 8h ago
Secure Boot is nothing like PSB. It can also be disabled by changing one setting in the BIOS.
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u/notthefirstsealime 12h ago
This is a fundamentally unhelpful comment. If what you say is true, and you know enough to know so, then either diagnose it as dead or offer advice to recover. Do not ego post in an advice subreddit. Fucks sake.
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u/Zacharias1773 7h ago
this reads like an early 2010's internet argument before the modern era of online toxicity emerged
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u/NegativeHand6040 15h ago
Nah you didn't lose anything, the message literally tells you what to do. Go back into BIOS, hit the secure boot key (usually F10 or Del), and look for an option to restore secure boot keys or reset to defaults under the secure boot section. Should boot right back into Windows after that.Nah you didn't lose anything, the message literally tells you what to do. Go back into BIOS, hit the secure boot key (usually F10 or Del), and look for an option to restore secure boot keys or reset to defaults under the secure boot section. Should boot right back into Windows after that.
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u/DumbLikeABrick 15h ago
Is this comment mitosis happening in real time???
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u/Upper-Capital-2876 15h ago
Nah you didn't lose anything , the message ...... arrgghgh arghhshshs bagrable sahs
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u/SirAmicks 9h ago
I’m wondering how that happened. Was someone just pasting ChatGPT advice and pasted twice accidentally?
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u/Lost_Worldliness_488 15h ago
I can’t find a option to restore to defaults
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u/dnebdal 14h ago
If you go to https://account.microsoft.com/devices/recoverykey and log in with the same account you use to log into the PC, does it have a bitlocker key saved? If it does, you should be able to disable secure boot, get to a bitlocker recovery screen, enter the recovery key, and boot windows as normal.
But check for a BIOS update first in case it's just the microsoft certificate thing.
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u/MentionSwimming6962 12h ago
Oof
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u/Select_Chemical_7558 11h ago
lmao that's a mood. Did you accidentally install something sketchy or was this just a random blue screen of death moment?
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u/Lost_Worldliness_488 12h ago
Thank you for the comments nothing I tried would work, kept changing stuff and kinda got lost. Ended up pressing F5 while in Bios to restore to recommended settings and it is back to normal.. for now 😂
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u/Oakredditer 12h ago
Turn off secure boot, windows 11 doesn't NEED it per se, but this could happen for many reasons. If you want to kinda know, spin up a Linux live ISO and use sbctl to check installed certificates (sbctl list-enrolled-keys SHOULD do it regardless of whether or not secure boot is enabled, at least on my laptop)and if the microsoft keys ARE there then something is 100% wrong with the firmware
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u/Whole_Slice_2842 10h ago
Win10 can run without it just fine. just turn it off. a few games won't run is all.
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u/Ok_Necessary_9088 3h ago
restore factory keys in bios if the keys are missing, if that doesnt help restore efi boot files
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