Can't access advanced startup

[zackeraz]

I need to access the Secure Boot State settings and turn it on, but when i go to settings - > (searched) recovery -> advanced startup -> restart now, after the restart it doesn't go to the advanced startup but it sends me to the normal login screen.

 

[ubuysa]

Is this a PC Specialist build? Can you post your full specs from the order page please?

 

[zackeraz]

Does this work? It is a PC Specialist build but I bought it from Currys.

 

[SpyderTracks]

Does this work? It is a PC Specialist build but I bought it from Currys.View attachment 36680

If you power off the computer, then turn it on and hammer the Delete and F2 keys repeatedly does it go into the BIOS?

If secure boot isn't enabled, then it's not configured for UEFI boot so won't work through Windows.

 

[zackeraz]

No, it doesn't send me to the BIOS if I hold F2 and del.

So how do I enable the secure boot state?

 

[SpyderTracks]

No, it doesn't send me to the BIOS if I hold F2 and del.

So how do I enable the secure boot state?

You don't hold them, that won't work, you have to keep pressing them repeatedly

 

[ubuysa]

Alternate between then, don't press both at the same time.

 

[zackeraz]

Alternating between them and pressing repeatedly doesn't work.

 

[ubuysa]

That does not sound good and it's not a WIndows problem, so it's nothing you have done. I would take it back to Currys and demand that they fix it.

 

[zackeraz]

I... currently live in another country and do not plan to go back to the UK. Oh no.

 

[ubuysa]

There is another way to get into advanced startup - and the BIOS.

Open a command prompt. Enter the command shutdown /r /o /f /t 00 (the /r switch tells the system to restart, the /o switch tells the system to restart in advanced startup mode, the /f switch forces all running apps to close, and the /t 00 switch says shutdown now). Windows will shutdown and restart into Advanced Startup mode.

BTW. Have you made any BIOS changes previously? If so what did you change?

 

[SpyderTracks]

There is another way to get into advanced startup - and the BIOS.

Open a command prompt. Enter the command shutdown /r /o /f /t 00 (the /r switch tells the system to restart, the /o switch tells the system to restart in advanced startup mode, the /f switch forces all running apps to close, and the /t 00 switch says shutdown now). Windows will shutdown and restart into Advanced Startup mode.

BTW. Have you made any BIOS changes previously? If so what did you change?

It can only do advanced startup if it's configured for uefi boot which has the uefi boot partition on the hard drive.

I'm willing to bet there's only a single partition on that drive as it was never properly set up

 

[ubuysa]

But it's from Curry's, surely PCS install Windows on those builds?

 

[zackeraz]

To open command prompt its win key + r, right?

 

[stegor]

To open command prompt its win key + r, right?

And then type 'cmd' without quotes

 

[zackeraz]

I think it worked, but the screen said that there was no outputs. I had to press space for it to load the login screen. Hold on, I'll try to plug the hdmi cable into other slots and see if it works.

 

[zackeraz]

I've tried every single hdmi outlet from the pc, but still no luck, I'm sure the command worked but I have no idea why its not giving me any outputs.

 

[ubuysa]

So....you were in Windows, you issued the shutdown command, Windows restarted...and now you have no display?

Was this system working OK before this episode?

Has Windows been reinstalled or upgraded since you bought it?

 

[SpyderTracks]

But it's from Curry's, surely PCS install Windows on those builds?

It doesn't have uefi partition as it doesn't load into bios from advanced start. It's never been setup with uefi boot. If this is in fact from Currys then yes it wasn't installed correctly.

One way to force it to enable secure boot and other settings required for windows 11 is to flash the latest BIOS, all BIOSs after windows 11 was released enabled those settings by default in the BIOS.

But you'll have to clean install windows as it won't be able to boot without the UEFI boot partition of secure boot is enabled.

 

[zackeraz]

So....you were in Windows, you issued the shutdown command, Windows restarted...and now you have no display?

Was this system working OK before this episode?

Has Windows been reinstalled or upgraded since you bought it?

When I ussed the command it went into a blank screen but I had to manually press space for it to load into the login screen, the PC is working as it should be, I just wanted to enable security boot since popular game Valorant apparently needed it to be "on". I have continuously updated windows since the purchase but never upgraded or reinstalled to my knowledge.