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I like how the ASRock site tells me to update my system by downloading a zip file, extracting it, and putting it on a USB drive or floppy disk

it's 16mb, dude. Which floppy do you want me to put it on? a zip drive? DOES YOUR BIOS SUPPORT ZIP DRIVES?

obviously I'd try it but this is my roommate's machine and she wants it back and working, not broken because I tried to update the BIOS off a zip drive

Foone🏳️‍⚧️

I updated the bios and now it can't boot

it can see the HD, the one I just installed windows onto, and it can start installing, but it gets like a minute into booting and then says it can't access the boot device.

I'm sure this is fine

@foone

Which OS?

Sounds like the symptoms of a secure boot failure (or it's attempting secure boot when it's not configured in the OS).

@simonzerafa @foone seconding this, I’ve got an ASRock board and on a couple of BIOS updates it has changed the TPM settings

@bitteOrca @foone

Which is one reason why you do an OS image backup before doing a UEFI firmware update.

@foone ah the old I'll just make it better by fixing/tweaking this small thing mistake. Happened to me the other day trying to get my mouse on my rpi touchscreen working

@foone Try toggling the AHCI/RAID options in BIOS setup, that's the usual problem.

@foone is Intel Rapid Storage Technology(RST) enabled in the bios? I have seen it do exactly this. It shuts off the NVMe device and replaces it with some useless thing that you need drivers for.

@ericseppanen @foone Oooh, that reminds me of a certain line of Dell Notebooks (3510) that are very common at public schools in my city, that have terrible CMOS batteries and/or a high standby drain and lose their UEFI configuration after summer break if not constantly charged. They default to NVMe RAID. Why Dell?! There's only one slot and no SATA port! Windows can't boot of course because of lacking drivers, so we always have to manually reconfigure each machine when they do that...

@snep @ericseppanen @foone I thought that vendors defaulted to Intel RAID _because_ drivers came with some versions of Windows but not for direct NVMe. I'm having the opposite problem where I want to dual boot Linux on a Dell Precision laptop but need to disable the software RAID which breaks Windows booting unless it redetects the hardware

@raven667 @ericseppanen @foone In my experience, Windows never really liked hardware RAID solutions for boot media unless you have the exact right drivers ready on a thumbdrive (or floppy disk, hah) during installation. That said, once Windows *does* have RAID drivers working, I've also seen it be very fussy about booting with RAID disabled, mainly older versions pre EFI and a halfway decent automatic hardware detection routine like the one in Windows 10/11

@foone shoulda used the floppy...