Locked Boards and Laptops

Ignore this page if you don't have an aforementioned locked motherboard or laptop.

Enter your BIOS (commonly DEL or F2)

Go to the Boot section

Change your FIRST BOOT DRIVE to the newly created partition; it usually copies the name of your boot drive and may say something along the lines of UEFI Boot .

Set boot option #1 to UEFI OS

On MSI boards, it would usually be under UEFI Hard Disk Drive BBS Priorities .

MSI or certain laptops, sometimes Gigabyte also

While still in Boot, go to Secure Boot

This is mostly for those who wish to play Valorant and wish to avoid popups. If you wish to have Secure Boot on, you MUST follow these steps or you will get Secure Boot Failure.

1. Set Secure Boot State to Enabled or Windows UEFI

2. Go to Keys Management

In the Secure Boot section

1. Press Restore Defaults

Enroll all Factory Keys if you don't see restore defaults

1. Click on the KEK key and press Append , then press No to pick your own file

Ensure you're pressing No

1. Look for SecureBoot.der - it's usually in the 3rd or 4th folder. Look through them all until you find it. Once you do, press Public Key Certificate .

Don't click on anything other than SecureBoot.der

1. Repeat for the DB key

Repeat steps from above

How to set keys