[SOLVED] Secure boot not allowing me to use my keyboard or mouse

[L3NK]

Hi,

I have recently had secure boot on my pc and my pc was fine, I was an idiot and deleted the secure boot keys. Now when I try to enable my secure boot my PC boots into windows however it's not recognizing my USB keyboard and mouse, they're both lighting up which is showing power. I've tried Legacy USB on bios, I've tried changing ports. I don't really want too have to reinstall my OS again can anyone suggest any help?

Asus Z370-A II
i7 8700k

 

[Colif]

I was an idiot and deleted the secure boot keys

so have you looked to see if the delete button got replaced by a load default keys choice which should let you bring them back?

UEFI: clearing secure boot keys?

I've been a bit ignorant to some of the benefits of UEFI, secure boot and CSM for a while and I've tried to correct that this holiday. I currently have a Win10 installation installed in MBR. Secure boot is enabled in my UEFI and CSM is enabled. Checking my secure boot status in msinfo32 it...

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i know deleting it won't let it see boot loaders, I know it will stop USB drives or DVD drives. I didn't think it applied to USB devices, like mice/kb though.

 

[L3NK]

so have you looked to see if the delete button got replaced by a load default keys choice which should let you bring them back?

UEFI: clearing secure boot keys?

I've been a bit ignorant to some of the benefits of UEFI, secure boot and CSM for a while and I've tried to correct that this holiday. I currently have a Win10 installation installed in MBR. Secure boot is enabled in my UEFI and CSM is enabled. Checking my secure boot status in msinfo32 it...

forums.anandtech.com

i know deleting it won't let it see boot loaders, I know it will stop USB drives or DVD drives. I didn't think it applied to USB devices, like mice/kb though.

Yeah so I've replaced load default keys and enabled csm and my keyboard and mouse lights up but it doesn't work. I turn secure boot off, it works again its very strange.

 

[Colif]

does win 11 let you run without secure boot on?

I don't have secure boot on but I have win 11, so the question was more... does it let you?

 

[L3NK]

Yes, it lets me run without secure boot on.

 

[Colif]

So just do that until windows decides you can't keep doing it. I don't know how it checks as its never said anything to me.

I been using 11 since August and not once its stopped and said anything about secure boot.

I probably have it on sometime in May though as there is a new bios update for my board that fixes a tpm issue on AMD.

I could guess it might check when the next version update is released but I don't have any idea when that is. On win 10 they were every 6 months, on win 11 they every 12 months... but when does year start?

So you can probably run with secure boot off for as long as you like. Test will be version updates which I am not expecting for a while. Maybe June?