Acer Nitro 5 AN515-55 598S with Debian won't detect bootable USB

muramoto

I have an Acer Nitro 5 AN515-55 598S for gaming where I decided to install Debian 12 to try and learn a little bit of linux.

After a week of consecutive fails to make it detect my external monitor I decided to go back to Windows 10 and just run Debian on a VM, so I took my boot USB to reinstall windows but the laptop won't detect it during boot.

I tried plugging it while using Debian normaly and it detects the USB.

I tried making another W10 boot USB while in Debian and it was successful.

I already:

1. Enabled F12 Boot Menu
2. Set up a BIOS password
3. Disabled fast boot
4. Disabled secure boot
5. Changed SATA Mode from AHCI back to Optane with RAID
6. Disabled TPM (TCM) state
7. Cleared TPM (TCM)

But no matter what I do, when I try to configure the boot priority order to allow my boot USB it just won't show! It will just show "1." under boot priority order. I tested my boot USB on another device and it's working as it should.

When I click F12 during POST to go to Boot Option Menu it will only show "1. debian" as an option, no USB.

Any ideas?

StevenGen

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/689895/acer-nitro-5-an515-55-598s-with-debian-wont-detect-bootable-usb

Use these methods described here "How to Get to Windows 10's Advanced Startup Options Menu" but you should not be installing Win-10 onto this Nitro laptop, install Win-11 as its a better OS for this laptop! Also, when you have the installation USB make sure that you have the unzipped "IRST (Intel® Rapid Storage Technology) 17.9.1.1009 Driver" for the AN515-55 on that installation USB so that you can install this driver at "Where do you want to install Windows?" "Load driver" section of the installation. so that your M.2 SSD boot drive is recognized, and you can format the boot drive and install Windows.