I have a brand new "Acer Nitro 5 AN515-58" but I cannot access Security and Boot tabs in BIOS.

Axlope

As you know, there are six tabs in the BIOS. While I can navigate and change settings in the Information, Main, Advanced, and Exit tabs, but I cannot access the Security and Boot tabs. I am unable to move up or down between settings or make changes.

The computer is new, and it has the FreeDOS operating system installed. I prepared a USB to install Windows, but I cannot access the Boot tab in the settings, preventing me from disabling the "Secure Boot" feature. Some videos suggest that setting a user password (Set User Password) in the Security tab might grant access to the Boot tab, but I also cannot access that tab. If you can assist me in accessing these tabs and making the necessary changes, I would appreciate it.

Note: As you can see, the text colors for the settings within the "Security" and "Boot" tabs are black, indicating no access. The settings in tabs I can access are shown in blue text.

All my tabs on BIOS:

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StevenGen

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/699903/i-have-a-brand-new-acer-nitro-5-an515-58-but-i-cannot-access-security-and-boot-tabs-in-bios

Why do you want to reinstall windows on this laptop when its brand new, this laptop came with Win-11 preinstalled from Acer. DO NOT install Win-10 on this laptop, as this laptop has NO Win-10 drivers and you will experience allot of driver problems. With Win-11 installation USB the bios only shows it in Boot priority order when you have a properly prepared bootable Win-11 23H2 installation USB which should be done with Rufus 4.4 and also you need to put the AN515-58 unzipped IRST (Intel® Rapid Storage Technology) Driver version 19.2.0.1003 on the USB as when you get to theWin-11 installation section at Where do you want to install Windows? > Load driver > you load the IRST driver so that the M.2 SSD boot drive is recognized, that is what you need to do as otherwise you can't install windows, To improve performance also upgrade the ram to32GB max total and upgrade the boot M.2 SSD to a fast PCIe4x4 tyep drive like the Crucial T500 M.2 SSD.

The bios shown above is the NORMAL UEFI type bios for the AN515058 and its NOT like an MBR/Legacy bios when it shows Boot priority order!

You need to change the Security section > Set HDD0 and HDD1 passwords before you can change the Secure Boot Mode from Standard to Custom mode, then and if you do that (which I don't recommend) you will have the option in the Boot section > Boot Mode > to change that setting from UEFI to Legacy. Leave your bios as it is and don't change anything, make sure that your bios is updated to the last version 2.10 and if your Nitro has the NVidia RTX3060 gpu, you upgrade the firmware to version 1.04a.

Then make sure that Win-11 is at version 23H2 and OS build 22631.3085 or later, all NVidia drivers are up to date and install the NVidia GeForce Experience software for gaming and you have all the Intel drivers up to date, as this is all that you have to do for the AN515-58 to perform art its peak and best performance. Good luck and hope this helps you out.

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