trouble switching to legacy boot option on G41 MB

maneksameer · September 12, 2016

Hi, I have a motherboard, which is intel G41 and a vendor named Lord electronics (which i do not know of). What I want to do is to switch the boot options from UEFI to legacy boot which I cannot spot in the bios options! further more, I'd also love to overclock my processor BUT I think this motherboard is OEM locked and therefore cannot overclock! is their a way to bypass this OEM and get an unlocked BIOS setup??

Thanks for all the help in advance

SLAYR · September 12, 2016

That board was released most likely before uefi so it should already be set to legacy.

There isn't a way to unlock a bios, the best option would be to overlcock is the BSEL mod the cpu which may or may not work, and involves taking a conductive pen and forcing the cpu to run at a higher fsb, but the chip, and max fsb of the board will affect whether or not it works.

maneksameer · September 13, 2016

9 hours ago, SLAYR said:

That board was released most likely before uefi so it should already be set to legacy.

There isn't a way to unlock a bios, the best option would be to overlcock is the BSEL mod the cpu which may or may not work, and involves taking a conductive pen and forcing the cpu to run at a higher fsb, but the chip, and max fsb of the board will affect whether or not it works.

well, I am quiet sure it needs UEFI boot, it is not booting via legacy and leaves a blinking cursor on the screen!!!

airdeano · September 13, 2016

UEFI boot is usually a relationship with the OS.

the G41 chipset did not have the liberty of UEFI usage. only standard BIOS settings.

seems either the controller setting has changed from IDE/AHCI to RAID, SATA/IDE controller has kaput, HDD/SSD lost power/data connection, or the OS is missing.

maneksameer · September 13, 2016

3 hours ago, airdeano said:

UEFI boot is usually a relationship with the OS.

the G41 chipset did not have the liberty of UEFI usage. only standard BIOS settings.

seems either the controller setting has changed from IDE/AHCI to RAID, SATA/IDE controller has kaput, HDD/SSD lost power/data connection, or the OS is missing.

well, 70% of that didn't mean anything to me (Oops! sorry)! but at the point there is an OS (ubuntu) installed on the machine.. and I cannot install the windows (8.1) using the same bootable usb that I used on my other machine which boots in legacy mode. so basically I think it has a UEFI mode on that I cannot switch, but as many others say that UEFI did not exist for this MB I have to find what wrong with my machine