Re: Help needed with stubborn Gateway box!

[Paul Goyette <paul%vps1.whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 27 Mar 2015, Bob Nestor wrote:

> Is this boot problem being caused by Microsoft's suggestion that OEMs
> should implement Secure Boot in UEFI for Windows 8?  My understanding
> is they're making it mandatory for Windows 10 to try and lock out
> other OSes from being installed.
>
> There should be an option in Windows 8.1 that allows you to control
> Secure Boot, enabling or disabling it.  I was able to find this
> reference:
>
>  http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/17058-secure-boot-enable-disable-uefi.html
>
> If this is indeed the problem I hope someone with UEFI knowledge comes
> up with a way around this by the time WIndows 10 comes out and OEMs
> are locking the hardware to it.

Thanks for the reference - this actually sounded promising.

Unfortunately, this seems not to be the problem.  The BIOS settings on 
this box look just like the ones that the article shows for "Acer PCs", 
and the Secure Boot option is already disabled.



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