Secure Boot option is grayed out

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Hi, in the BIOS settings the "secure boot" option is grayed out for me. I googled and found a video that I need to set a password. I did but nothing helped. What's the problem?

[iceman1980]

BoyDilly původně napsal:

Hi, in the BIOS settings the "secure boot" option is grayed out for me. I googled and found a video that I need to set a password. I did but nothing helped. What's the problem?

Laptop or Desktop? Often Laptops allow you to import the secure boot keys from the on-board chip. Why do you want secure boot as well?

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BoyDilly původně napsal:

Hi, in the BIOS settings the "secure boot" option is grayed out for me. I googled and found a video that I need to set a password. I did but nothing helped. What's the problem?

Laptop or Desktop? Often Laptops allow you to import the secure boot keys from the on-board chip. Why do you want secure boot as well?

Desktop. I want to play Valorant. It requires both of them enabled. I'm on Windows 11. I'm pretty sure it is enabled, but it is grayed out.

[iceman1980]

BoyDilly původně napsal:

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Laptop or Desktop? Often Laptops allow you to import the secure boot keys from the on-board chip. Why do you want secure boot as well?

Desktop. I want to play Valorant. It requires both of them enabled. I'm on Windows 11. I'm pretty sure it is enabled, but it is grayed out.

Under security in windows 11 you should be able to see "secure boot enabled"

Goto Powershell (Administrator mode) type in.

 Confirm-SecureBootUEFI 

If it returns True then secure boot is enabled. IF it returns false secure boot is not enabled. To make it even clearer

 $secureBoot = Confirm-SecureBootUEFI; Write-Host "Secure boot is Enabled: $secureBoot";

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BoyDilly původně napsal:

Hi, in the BIOS settings the "secure boot" option is grayed out for me. I googled and found a video that I need to set a password. I did but nothing helped. What's the problem?

You may need to disable CSM if it's enabled. Some motherboards don't allow combining Secure Boot with CSM.

Also you did make sure your TPM is enabled, right?

[Electric Cupcake]

There's literally no reason to leave that on unless you're a government employee transporting the NOC list or something.

TPM and secureboot are nothing but an extra headache.

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Crosseyed Mie původně napsal:

There's literally no reason to leave that on unless you're a government employee transporting the NOC list or something.

TPM and secureboot are nothing but an extra headache.

If you run Valorant on Windows 11 the anti-cheat requires them. That's the problem. TPM makes sense since it can be used to identify the hardware through its unique factory-written ID, but Secure Boot appears overkill as Windows already enforces signing and presumably Microsoft won't sign cheat drivers.

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BoyDilly původně napsal:

Hi, in the BIOS settings the "secure boot" option is grayed out for me. I googled and found a video that I need to set a password. I did but nothing helped. What's the problem?

You may need to disable CSM if it's enabled. Some motherboards don't allow combining Secure Boot with CSM.

Also you did make sure your TPM is enabled, right?

it worked after I switched CSM to UEFI. Thanks, guys.

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BoyDilly původně napsal:

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You may need to disable CSM if it's enabled. Some motherboards don't allow combining Secure Boot with CSM.

Also you did make sure your TPM is enabled, right?

it worked after I switched CSM to UEFI. Thanks, guys.

If it was just a matter of changing BIOS settings then your system was already running in UEFI mode. My motherboard can actually boot Secure Boot supported OSes even with CSM turned on. It's just enforced on UEFI bootloaders.