Bios Setup

Required BIOS setup steps for all motherboards

(1) Flash Bios

  1. Download two different versions of your mainboards bios file (you really need 2!)

  2. Go into your BIOS (Spam "Del" while booting your pc, if this doesnt work search for your mainboards proper key)

  3. Flash your bios to the lower version and wait for it to finish

  4. Flash your bios to the newer version now and wait for it to finish


(2) Disable Wifi and Bluethoot

Go directly to step 3 if your pc doesn't have a wifi module!

If you are using wifi and not ethernet, disable just bluethoot

Go here to disable it:

ASUS: Advanced> Onboard Devices Configs > Wifi (Wlan) & Bluethoot >> DISABLED

MSI: Advanced > Integrated Peripherals > Wifi (Wlan) & Bluethoot >> DISABLED

GIGABYTE: Advanced/Peripherals > Wifi (Wlan) & Bluethoot >> DISABLED

ASROCK: Advanced > Chipset Configuration > Wifi (Wlan) & Bluethoot >> DISABLED


(3) Virtualization

Some features might miss, just ignore them then.

But note that certain features can be hard to find so you need to search deeply in your bios.

Unfortunately we can't provide a full guide where you can find certain features since it can vary from Motherboard to Motherboard

AMD
Intel

Virtualization/SVM (AMD) >> DISABLED

Virtualization (Intel Virtualization Tech)

>> DISABLED

IOMMU (AMD CBS > NBIO Common Options > NB Configuration > IOMMU)

>> DISABLED

VT-D >> DISABLED

NX-Bit (Only if available, CPU Settings > Secure Virtual Machine) >> DISABLED

Utility Installer >> DISABLED

Utility Installer >> DISABLED


(4) TPM

  1. TPM (Trusted Computing Module) >> DISABLED

  2. Only AMD: FTPM (Firmware tpm) >> DISABLED


(5) CSM

  1. CSM (commonly in boot tab) >> DISABLED


(6) Secure Boot

  1. Secure Boot (commonly in boot tab, only visible when csm is off) >> DISABLED

  2. Delete all Secure Boot keys if possible


(7) Confirm correct settings

Virtualization

  1. Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc simultaneously

  2. Navigate to the Performance tab

  1. Press Win + R on your keyboard to open the run dialog box

  2. Type msinfo32and press enter

  3. Scroll all the way down until you see the following:

Secure Boot

Stay in msinfo32 and look for the following values:

  • Secure Boot State >> Off

  • Bios Mode >> UEFI

TPM

  1. Press Win + R on your keyboard to open the run dialog box

  2. Type tpm.mscand press enter

  3. Check that it looks like the following:

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