Disable secure boot in Acer bios - Acer Laptop - Insyde H2O Bios

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Disable secure boot in acer laptop

Secure boot :

Secure boot is a security standard developed by members of the PC industry to help make sure that a device boots using only software that is trusted by the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM). When the PC starts, the firmware checks the signature of each piece of boot software, including UEFI firmware drivers (also known as Option ROMs), EFI applications, and the operating system. If the signatures are valid, the PC boots, and the firmware gives control to the operating system.

-Microsoft

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Though secure boot prevents your computer from executing code that is not suppose to run on the machine, it creates problem for pc enthusiast who likes to play around with different OS.

We can turn off this feature from the BIOS and continue exploring the universe of OS without any issue.

A few days back my friend dropped by with his Acer laptop and asked me to clean install a copy of windows. The laptop was from acer aspire series.

I made a bootable windows pen drive and enter the boot menu to flash. Like other laptops secured boot kicked in and restricted the installation of windows. It was fine because that’s was secure boot is supposed to do.

But things got weird when I entered into the bios to turn off the secure boot. The option to turn off secured boot was disabled.

I was unable to turn off secure boot. This is first time I experienced something like this. I have been installing OS on several different laptops but never seen something like this.

After several hours of searching on the internet I came across a thread from some forum that said in few laptops with InsydeH2O bios we need to set admin password to disable secure boot.

So the conclusion is :

SET ADMIN PASSWORD TO DISABLE SECURE BOOT

I am writing this blog because I don’t want anyone to waste their time like I did on figuring this issue

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