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How can i enable the secure boot in bios F.13 it's grayed out and I tried different ways to enable it but didn't work.

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 are there is any way to go back to older version of bios to be able to enable the secure boot?

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@Jhindow -- is there is any way to go back to older version of BIOS?

 

The "standard" way of updating the BIOS usually prevents you from "downgrading" the BIOS.

 

Maybe, if you are "sneaky" and "adventourous" ...

  1. remove the disk-drive from the computer
  2. connect it as a secondary disk-drive in some other computer
  3. start the other computer
  4. assign a drive-letter to the "hidden" partition on the secondary disk-drive
  5. find the BIOS file -- it may be a ".bin" file
  6. copy that file into a "new folder" on the primary disk-drive
  7. delete the file from the secondary disk-drive, but first make a note of the full "filename"
  8. download the older BIOS to your primary disk-drive
  9. rename the file, to match the full "filename" in your notes
  10. copy the renamed file to the secondary disk-drive
  11. shutdown your computer
  12. disconnect the secondary disk-drive
  13. reconnect it to the original computer
  14. boot the original computer, and see if you can force a BIOS update (it might read the "renamed" file from that "hidden" partition) to load the older BIOS
  15. Cross your fingers, that the above MIGHT work,
  16. If you turned the motherboard into a "brick", here is my warning that this MIGHT happen to you.

Beware!

 

 

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