E5-575-320P BIOS settings are blocked since clean install win10

TessaMary
TessaMary Member Posts: 68 Die Hard WiFi Icon
edited July 2023 in Aspire Laptops

Hi BIOS 1.47 is active, since clean install win10 its blocked: can't change settings; greyed out.
We've removed the 2 previous drives and installed win10 on a new 2TB SSD in HDD1 bay.
Now we can't change any settings in BIOS. It shows:
"BIOS security: HDD1 PCIe NVME SSD doesn't support HDD" But win10 is functioning. The 2TB SSD was partitioned as NTFS, should that be GPT?

We need to change boot priority order for a dual boot!
How proceed?

Answers

  • StevenGen
    StevenGen ACE Posts: 12,027 Trailblazer

    This laptop supports the below M.2 drive at F below (see caption below) and at C a 2.5" SATA III drive of either a mechanical or SSD drive, and a max total RAM of 32 GB (2x 16GB DDR4-2133MHz) at D & E slots below with the ram spec modules listed below.

    Install Win-10 onto M.2 slot F shown below as Disk 0 and as your boot drive and slot C below as Disk 1 as your 2.5" secondary slave drive.

    The last bios update version 1.47 is to do with the "Fine tune DRAM compatibility" and you might have incompatible ram after this bios update that could have contributed to the bios greyed out settings, which is very strange as this must be because incompatible hardware.

  • TessaMary
    TessaMary Member Posts: 68 Die Hard WiFi Icon

    @StevenGen thnx for the info. new SSd is installed in Disk 0. RAM hasn't been changed.
    All should work...
    I've figured out to open the case and reset the BIOS by removing CMOS. See if that helps...

  • TessaMary
    TessaMary Member Posts: 68 Die Hard WiFi Icon

    Reset the BIOS by removing CMOS didn't help. Still stuck with none changeable BIOS settings!!!

    BLOODY HELL!

    WHAT to do???

    flash same BIOS again???

  • TessaMary
    TessaMary Member Posts: 68 Die Hard WiFi Icon

    BIOS all greyed out, can't select any options but edit date, clock + Userpw.
    supervisor pw is set. Userpw is set!
    After reboot still nothing editable!

    UEFI + secure boot enabled.

    "HDD1: PCIe NVME SSD doesn't support HDD"
    SSD is installed in Disk 0,NOT HDD1, thats empty. Win 10 is working, but need to edit BIOS.

    Flashed the BIOS again with ZAA_147.exe. No difference.