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Why does my computer say "Soft Temporary Disable" at boot after disabling Secure Boot?
I have a HP PC bought less than four years ago.
I had several annoying issues with Linux due to this "Secure Boot" junk, so I disabled it in the BIOS/UEFI settings. Then I was able to ...
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Finding out if a motherboard supports UEFI
I have read somewhere that computers prior to 2011 are unlikely to support UEFI. When I want to be certain if a computer supports UEFI then I goto the BIOS and check if there is a reference to the ...
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What is a UEFI?
While installing ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my windows 8 PC, many online tutorials were telling to disable the UEFI.
My question is what is UEFI and what is it's use?
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How can i acces to UEFI on insyde 20 bios R0220E5. Sony Vaio SVE14115FLW
I have windows 10 on my laptop but i'm not sure if i'm running on UEFI, this laptop had Windows 7 by default but i want to run windows 10 on UEFI. The thing is i don't know how to set it to UEFI or if ...
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hp probook white screen with error cancel image and boot to next boot order
I bought HP Probook 440 G1 with windows 8 Pro. I am a ubuntu user so I wanted to install ubuntu with Windows side by side. I tried to boot it from USB or DVD ROM but was unable to do so. Then from ...
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How can I do a dvd install of CentOS 7 that also removes Windows 8.1?
I am trying to install CentOS 7 as the sole operating system on a computer that currently has Windows 8.1. However, I am experiencing a long series of obstacles when trying to use boot sticks to do ...
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What’s the point of a BIOS password?
I have realised that there is absolutely no point to having a password protecting your BIOS/UEFI menu!
Here are the reasons:
It is the easiest thing to “hack.”
Literally. Anyone can use a jumper and a ...
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Confusing BIOS and UEFI
I've just bought an Acer Aspire E1 (572) laptop four days ago, and ran into that UEFI/BIOS problem.
It was shipped with Linpus Lite OS by default.
I had it installed a Win 8 pro on it, after ...
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Motherboard with my company's logo on the boot screen
How can I put my company's logo on the boot screen of my systems? Is it possible? How do the other computer manufacturers like Dell (and other manufacturers too) do it, and from where do they produce ...
