UEFI BIOS

Hey, So, I'm trying to recover a Windows 10 account password for a family friend that has forgotten the password on a HP pavilion laptop. The laptop boot loader is only allowing me to select a bootable USB or CD as the boot option, if legacy mode is enabled within the bios. If legacy mode is...

I built a PC and when I downloaded creation media tool and put it into my new pc and selected to boot from it nothing happened and it when back to the boot menu it says this on the screen Please select boot device: P1: Samsung SSD 860 QVO 1tb P0: ST2000DM008-2FR102 USB Flash Disk 1100

Okay so I did something really dumb and converted my sdd to gpt from mbr with easeUS when my motherboard only supports legacy bios (I think). Its a lexar SSD and the pc is dell precision t3500. That was my only drive and had my data and windows. Now my mobo does recognize the ssd but once I...

Hello, I just want to ask a question. So I tried to reformat my friends laptop, the BIOS mode is set to UEFI. The thing is, the laptop doesn't recognize the USB Bootable Device (Windows 10 Installer) from the boot menu. Although I re-arranged the boot order, the laptop just goes straight...

I recently installed a brand new Ryzen 2700X and a Sapphire RX 580 Pulse onto my MSI B450 Tomahawk. Initially I had posting issues but was able to get it to post after some tinkering and everything since then has worked well. Except for one issue. I’m unable to boot into my uefi/bios whatsoever...

Hey all, I'm trying to boot from a USB device, but none that I tried show up. I tried both a USB2.0 and a USB3.1 drive on my Asus flipbook 14 but neither show up in the bios under the USB tab. I have booted off from a USB device before when I installed Ubuntu Linux on the computer. I tried...

Hello, I will start with my specs: Mainborad: ASRock B75 Pro3 (BIOS ver P.20 - according to page of my mobo it is newest UEFI version that I can install) Memory: CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 (details in screenshots below) CPU: Intel Core i5 3470 GPU: Radeon RX 480 OS: Windows 10 (64bit) Today I expanded...

I recently upgraded my pc to a B450 Tomahawk MAX, Ryzen 2600 and 16gb 3200mhz ddr4 corsair rgb ram I am using my old windows 10 install on an Adata su800 ssd. The problem I am having is when I boot up the PC, there is no splash screen which shows which buttons to press to go into bios, or...

Hi. I'm trying to replace my old motherboard with a new one (ASUS M5A78L-M Plus/USB3 DDR3 HDMI DVI USB 3.0 760G MicroATX ). What do I need to do on the software side, like with the BIOS? Everything else in the computer works, so windows 10 should be operational. Whatever I have to do to the...

I was in the bios when my power supply died (thermaltake thoughpower RGB 650W gold), so I bought a new one (seasonic focus 850W gold) and booted my pc, everything worked until I tried to enter the bios again, and everytime I try to get into the bios, the screen just get black and I get the A9...

Hi! I have a question if this motherboard https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/A320M-DGS/index.asp#Overview is able to overclock RAM and will it be able to use this RAM https://www.corsair.com/ca/en/Categories/Products/Memory/Vengeance-PRO-RGB-Black/p/CMW16GX4M2C3200C16#tab-tech-specs in 3200mhz...

Hi! i have a question about my boot options in uefi. Should my SSD be in Boot option #1 and built in efi shell in #2 or should i swap their places? Does it even make a diffrence?

My motherboard's bios died about a month ago, when I tried to update the bios, but it failed. It got my pc stuck in a boot loop, I pressed the power button, but it turned off about a second later everytime. I tried removing the cmos battery, using the clear bios pad, but nothing worked. I...

I've had this MSI A68HM-P33 V2 for roughly 1 year and 3 months now, came with a AMD Athlon X4 840 and a 4GB SDRAM Kingmax, I had my gpu for over 2 years now, a Radeon RX460 and an HDD Toshiba DT01ACA050thats older than 6 and had been reinstalled 4 times. Now, to my problem. I have a Teclast...

This morning, BootGuard by NeoSmart prevented from booting in legacy mode. Ask to configure to UEFI. Error BG-4PP [neosmart.net/wiki/bootguard-4pp/ Originally few yr ago, Windows 7 was installed using CD and later was upgraded to Windows10. Probably legacy mode. The Custom pc was working well...

I have the gigabyte Ultra durable series. gigabyte uefi dual bios . My issue is I'm trying to up grade my Mac from 10.9.5 to Mojave but I'm having issues because it is showing that is downloading but when the computer reboots is still on 10.9.5 and I was told that it may have something to do...

Hello there, I have recently decided to reinstall my computer, since it has been a while since I had done it the last time. I have two SSDs in my PC, a 128GB Kingston SSD and a newer 240GB Kingston SSD. Prior to this, the 128GB SSD was the on which the OS had been installed. Upon...

mobo: Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3-B3 (rev. 1.1) UF1 (about a decade old.) processor: intel i7-2600k (also about a decade old) 64 bit windows 10 home on a samasung 850 evo SSD (newish) the usb 3.0 are the two attached to the mobo, and they worked before update and wipe. normally I'd assume it was a...

Win 10 64 and apps are on a SATA SSD, all data on two 8TB HDDs RAID-1 mirroring via Storage Space. I had used (and preferred) hardware RAID on previous Intel systems, but when I put this one together 6 months ago I wanted to keep things simple and went with AHCI SATA (CMS enabled, so not full...

Build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/FPkQFt SSD added: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07M7Q21N7/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 M.2 to PCIe adapter: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075MDH28Y/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Issue: Installed SAMSUNG 970...

I have a Lenovo Ideapad 520. I feel the time difference between me pressing the power button and the appearance of vendor logo is too long. I have no problem with my PC with lower specs than my laptop. I have tried all startup methods on the internet to make the laptop faster but no results.

Despite no hardware changes to my Windows 10 PC, during boot up it has started to show this 'error' message. It doesn't say why, but only boots after I press F1 and either discard changes & exit, or save changes & exit. Motherboard is Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 with the latest 2015 American Megatrends...

Some days ago my pc broke showing this message continuously "boot or insert boot media device and press a key". If i press a key the message just repeats itself. I looked up on the internet and saw that I must change the booting order or reinstall the operating system. I tried to, but when I...

SO I am taking some basic Comptia hardware courses and am learning about boot processes. Went into my Win10 desktop system and ran admin cmd bcdedit Under my C: partition I am seeing system32\winload.exe I was EXPECTING to find .efi here since I am using a BIOS with a GUI ect. Did the same...

I recently bought Aorus RX 570 to replace HD 6570, my motherboard supports both both uefi and bios, my old graphics card is at bios, while this new is at uefi. My hdd is at legacy bios mode... I dont understand a thing so i was wondering if someone can explain it to me.. Thank you <3

I have a problem: my PC will not boot Windows 10, and when I try to load UEFI BIOS I just get a black screen. Display seems to be working OK (I can see the ASUS logo on startup) and keyboard works too. I've reset the CMOS battery and I'm now prompted to run Setup again: But when I press F1...

Like i said its not showing up for my boot options It only shows P3: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NSBO P4: WDC WD10EZEX-00BN5A0 But its not showing my 970 evo plus 1 tb ssd Can someone help?

Hello, i have a very strange problem; i have two 4GB ram sticks installed in my MB and until yesterday everything was working perfectly, but now my BIOS has decided to only use half of the ram he has even if it sees all the sticks... As you can see here ( View: https://imgur.com/rRV70KX ) the...

Hi, don;t know if it the correct name for it but the screen that comes when you boot up your PC that gives you the options to press DEL or F2 to get into the BIOS. So my issue is that prior to getting a second display I had to 1080p monitorone using DP and the other HDMI and the UEFI BIOS would...

I read here and there , that the GT 1030 needs a UEFI bios motherboard , my g31mxp has a legacy bios , and I instaleld the latest update which was released in 2011 , so here the thing , I read somewhere else as well that any board comes with a PCIe X16 will work just fine . so If I bought it...

Just installed a motherboard (ROG strix z390-I, got it second hand) with a brand new cpu (i7 8700k). I have a brand new SSD (samsung 850 evo 500gb) that I'm trying to install windows 10 on. Every time I try to boot from the usb windows install drive (created with RUFUS and a win10 iso) the...

Hello, Friend of mine asked me to build a pc for him and after building the pc I tried to boot it up and get into bios only on the first boot. After that my motherboard refuses to powerup and use mouse/keyboard. Bios reset didn't work (button, jumper and bios battery(I took it out for 24 hours)...

Background: My Asus Transformer laptop(with a HDD) stopped booting into the OS out of the blue and got stuck in the Aptio Setup Utility. I hadn't really made any software changes. It was dual boot with Ubuntu 18.02 and Windows 8.1. I tried all the solutions I found about changing the security...

hello i just want to know if the asus tuf x299 mark 2 is able to boot in uefi as i am building a pc and i want to use a 4tb ssd as my boot drive please let me know and thanks in advance

My mobo is MSI B450A PRO. I'd like to enable XMP. It has Click BIOS 5, but it doesn't look normal. It's in a 4:3 aspect ratio, there's text missing and there isn't any info... It showed up normally only the first time. imgur.com/a/6RruH6X MSI B450-A Pro Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5GHz 2x8Gb Corsair...

I used Macrium Reflect to clone the HDDs to SSDs on a Dell Optiplex 9020, 790, and 390. It only worked on the 9020 and not the other two. All 3 of the clones took about half an hour, and all of the partitions were the same size. Just on the Dell Optiplex 390 and 790 they won't boot. They both...

Hi,I recently tried to install windows 10 onto my Acer E5,noticing that I couldn't change my hard drive to gpt without uefi,I went to the BIOS settings and changed my bios mode from bios to uefi,after restarting my computer,the laptop won't display and the fan doesn't spin,I'm not sure what it...

Hello i am going to make my second gaming build and my question is do i need sli bridge for two MSI gaming r9 380.. i am gona use the new : Asus strix B-350 F Gaming

Im planning on building my first pc I was just wondering if my pc was good. If not, suggestions would be nice. Im planning on playing games like csgo,minecraft,league of legends, and overwatch. Ps. I got my cpu as a gift http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/88jHBP

Hello all, I have a new built PC with no wifi connection. I've wired it to my router using an Ethernet cable. I was wondering if it was possible for me to connect a wireless device (keyboard, speakers, printer) to my router and link it from there, to my PC, using the Ethernet cable ? I'd like...