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W7 + new Asus mobo + UEFI Bios + Safeboot = PROBLEMS!
(Edit: Sorry! Title should read Secure Boot, not Safeboot)
Project: All-new hardware (case, PS, mobo, CPU etc etc) with an NTLite-integrated-update W7 on a flash drive.
Lots of steep learning curves building this W7 + 200 updates flash drive, but that's finally done.
But now I've plugged the flash drive into my shiny new Asus Z170M-Plus motherboard, I've got a whole new set of problems with the UEFI Bios and Safeboot. I think I've solved it, but in the course of several days of head-scratching and research online, I've turned up some interesting information. Anyone seen this website?
I've trimmed out some irrelevant stuff but, basically the guy says this:Code:http://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/ensure-you-have-the-correct-sata-configuration-in-the-bios-setup-for-your-configuration/uefisecure-boot-disable/
If I read that correctly, he's saying that:Associated with UEFI is SecureBoot. This is a newer security technologies which only allows 64 Bit code with a Microsoft signature to boot. Codes without such a signature will be rejected and so only only certified code will boot. This makes the boot process secure preventing malicious code from booting. The Microsoft signatures are only present in Windows 8 64 Bit media and later.
In many systems the optical drive (which is falling into obsolescence) will not have the hardware signatures to be enabled as a boot device when secure boot is enabled so I recommend booting exclusively from USB for newer systems.
Windows 7 64 Bit supports the UEFI BIOS and the GPT partition scheme but does not support SecureBoot (which needs to be disabled) for a Windows 7 64 Bit installation. Installation from DVD is not supported and a Bootable USB with appropriate settings must be used.
Windows 7 and 8.1 32 Bit do not support secure boot/UEFI and their installation should be avoided on new hardware.
1) I probably shouldn't be attempting to put W7 on this new machine and
2) The DVD drive won't work under the default UEFI Bios settings, so a flash drive is recommended.
I think he's right about #2 because I tried running a bootable Wipedrive formatting DVD (to make sure the old SATA HDD I'm using as a test bed was clean and unallocated) and absolutely nothing happened. The UEFI bios sees the DVD drive but it won't spin up.
To begin with, I couldn't get the flash drive to boot either, but I think I've solved that (but yet to test it ) by setting 'Secure Boot > OS Type' to 'Other OS' instead of its default 'Windows UEFI mode'.
Anyone had similar issues and solved them?
Last edited by teckneeculler; 29 Dec 2015 at 14:58.