laptop Secure Boot not turning on

[fbiopenup]

Hello everyone, hope you all are doing well. I have a Lenovo Legion 5, Ryzen 5 and RTX 2060. I cannot turn the secure boot on on the bios. I have searched a few forum posts and I could not figure it out, i cant turn it on. I have tried changing from UEFI to Legacy mode. do you have any ides?

 

[RONOTHAN##]

2 minutes ago, fbiopenup said:

I have tried changing from UEFI to Legacy mode.

Go back to UEFI mode, secure boot only works in UEFI, not legacy. 

[fbiopenup]

i tried it, same problem. I read that i might have to reinstall windows and turn it on then. Is there a possibility of that being true?

[Cyberat]

Not enough info, was it working at anytime before that you checked ?

What is the history of this laptop, what changed and when & why ?

[fbiopenup]

7 minutes ago, Cyberat said:

Not enough info, was it working at anytime before that you checked ?

What is the history of this laptop, what changed and when & why ?

i never checked it before as i didnt really care about it. I tried installing FaceIT and it says it need secure boot. I never did anything specific with secure boot. I never changed it. I upgraded to Windows 11. That is the only thing i can think that might have screwed with  secure boot. I bought the laptop a year and a half ago, and it didnt have an OS.

[fbiopenup]

1 minute ago, fbiopenup said:

i never checked it before as i didnt really care about it. I tried installing FaceIT and it says it need secure boot. I never did anything specific with secure boot. I never changed it. I upgraded to Windows 11. That is the only thing i can think that might have screwed with  secure boot. I bought the laptop a year and a half ago, and it didnt have an OS.

Also my OS disk is GPT and the disk where i store games and stuff is MBR. Can that be the problem?

 

[Cyberat]

Just to put a perspective spin on this - you want to screw up an otherwise well running laptop for 1 app. ?

How did you upgrade to windows 11 without secured boot running ? I thought its install is very restrictive.

[fbiopenup]

2 minutes ago, Cyberat said:

Just to put a perspective spin on this - you want to screw up an otherwise well running laptop for 1 app. ?

How did you upgrade to windows 11 without secured boot running ? I thought its install is very restrictive.

No i am not saying that i want to do it for just one app. I just want to know what is wrong and if i can fix this. As for the Windows upgrade, i have no clue about that, It required the TPM 2.0 chip, and i have that. I am not really sure how it went, or how could i have turned it on before installing

 

[Cyberat]

There is a point of UEFI & GPT boot drive and so far it's a per system compatibility.

One would think games take more space than OS & Apps. and you'd boot from MBR drive and game from GPT.

I don't see any benefits from Secured Boot option to be better than running an anti-virus.

Someone logged into your PC can simply overwrite your Bios through an "auto" update or your boot sector. Chasing ghosts & goblins.

The average user will not run into a mediocre hacker that gets blocked by secure boot or anything at higher level.

[fbiopenup]

9 minutes ago, fbiopenup said:

No i am not saying that i want to do it for just one app. I just want to know what is wrong and if i can fix this. As for the Windows upgrade, i have no clue about that, It required the TPM 2.0 chip, and i have that. I am not really sure how it went, or how could i have turned it on before installing

 

[fbiopenup]

1 minute ago, Cyberat said:

There is a point of UEFI & GPT boot drive and so far it's a per system compatibility.

One would think games take more space than OS & Apps. and you'd boot from MBR drive and game from GPT.

I don't see any benefits from Secured Boot option to be better than running an anti-virus.

Someone logged into your PC can simply overwrite your Bios through an "auto" update or your boot sector. Chasing ghosts & goblins.

The average user will not run into a mediocre hacker that gets blocked by secure boot or anything at higher level.

Some of the games i am trying to play that do not work unless i enable Secure Boot.

[Cyberat]

AMD Platform Security Processor disabled because... ? Try enabling that also.

I see what you're saying, choice sits on Enabled but status says Disabled.

[Cyberat]

Maybe clear CMOS will resolve it ? If easily accessible, remove battery. Will need to go through the entire Bios setup afterwards.

So take note of everything as it is now.

[fbiopenup]

5 minutes ago, Cyberat said:

AMD Platform Security Processor disabled because... ? Try enabling that also.

I see what you're saying, choice sits on Enabled but status says Disabled.

thanks ill give that a try.

There was also this

[Cyberat]

Don't use that unless you have missing keys for window installs, which you said worked fine.

[stflames01]

Currently facing this exact same issue. Lenovo is saying I should reinstall Windows losing all my files which I can't back up atm so I guess i'm screwed.