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Secure boot enabled - now system wont POST

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SimianRob

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Well.. this sucks.

System specs:

Gigabyte GA-Z87X-D3H mobo
i5 4670k CPU
8GB DDR GSKILL memory
Geforce 760

anyway, I had been running the system a little over a month and everything was fine. I decided to make the jump to windows 8.1 from windows 7. Did a fresh install of windows 8.1, but noticed there was the little message in the bottom corner of the screen "secure boot not configured correctly". Did some googling and there was a few recommended ways of enabling it. Went into the bios, enabled secure boot and saved the settings and rebooted. System sat there with no monitor signal and would not post.. nothing is happening. Rebooted it, same thing. I cleared the CMOS.. same thing. Pulled the battery and waited 15 minutes - system comes on for about 5 seconds, turns off, and then comes back on and nothing happens - fans are running but no signal to the monitor and keyboard wont light up - its not posting.

I've cleared the CMOS a bunch of times, i've unplugged everything besides the monitor, pulled all the SATA drives, I took the CPU out and reseated it, checked all the power supply cables, unplugged the video card and tried the integrated HD intel one - no go. I found this thread:

http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php?topic=13134.0

This guy had the exact same issue and could not ever get it working again.. I dont understand how clearing the CMOS is not fixing the issue. Any ideas?
 
I had a similar issue. Does your board have a dual bios?
 
It does - but as far as I know if it detects a problem it just reverts to the other bios - and I guess its not doing that. Unless someone knows how to get the alternate bios to function. I am very very confused - any benefits that secure boot is supposed to have cannot be worth this much trouble.
 
SimianRob said:
It does - but as far as I know if it detects a problem it just reverts to the other bios - and I guess its not doing that. Unless someone knows how to get the alternate bios to function. I am very very confused - any benefits that secure boot is supposed to have cannot be worth this much trouble.
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Look at your manual, there should be a switch on your board that you can flip to use your other bios manually.
 
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