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Can people please show me their UEFI settings page? I'm looking to prove or disprove something that the HP people are now telling me.
First off, they do not give tech support for UEFI - UEFI is advanced they say with advanced Issues. This is why you will find no mention of UEFI in an HP service manual. They say contact Microsoft which is silly because MS only requires the use of these features - they are not the OEM responsible for the bios/UEFI functionality.
According to the Windows Hardware Certification Requirements for Client and Server Systems, Sections 14 through 18 under the heading: System.Fundamentals.Firmware.UEFISecureBoot ( Windows Hardware Certification Requirements for Client and Server Systems) Users, not OEM's are supposed to have the ability to delete Secure Boot keys ( even Microsoft's key if they wanted, of course this would cause Windows 8 not to boot in UEFI mode with Secure Boot enabled) or add your own Secure Boot keys assuming you have one that's needed for an OS you created or some other system running at boot time.
I think either the tech support at HP are either lackeys reading from a script and even the Supervisors have no clue whats going on or HP is doing this on purpose to pull a fast one. I think it's possible HP may be in breech of agreement with Microsoft - that, or something else is going on that's not clear to anyone.
I want to know, does Anyone have a UEFI firmware settings section that allows this functionality of being able to delete (not disable) the Secure Boot Keys (PK) or add your own keys as is Required by Microsoft?
First off, they do not give tech support for UEFI - UEFI is advanced they say with advanced Issues. This is why you will find no mention of UEFI in an HP service manual. They say contact Microsoft which is silly because MS only requires the use of these features - they are not the OEM responsible for the bios/UEFI functionality.
According to the Windows Hardware Certification Requirements for Client and Server Systems, Sections 14 through 18 under the heading: System.Fundamentals.Firmware.UEFISecureBoot ( Windows Hardware Certification Requirements for Client and Server Systems) Users, not OEM's are supposed to have the ability to delete Secure Boot keys ( even Microsoft's key if they wanted, of course this would cause Windows 8 not to boot in UEFI mode with Secure Boot enabled) or add your own Secure Boot keys assuming you have one that's needed for an OS you created or some other system running at boot time.
I think either the tech support at HP are either lackeys reading from a script and even the Supervisors have no clue whats going on or HP is doing this on purpose to pull a fast one. I think it's possible HP may be in breech of agreement with Microsoft - that, or something else is going on that's not clear to anyone.
I want to know, does Anyone have a UEFI firmware settings section that allows this functionality of being able to delete (not disable) the Secure Boot Keys (PK) or add your own keys as is Required by Microsoft?
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 64 bit
- System Manufacturer/Model
- HP Pavillion G7-2251dx
- CPU
- AMD A-8 4500M
- Memory
- 8 Gigabytes DDR3 sdram
- Graphics Card(s)
- Discrete ATI Radeon HD 7640G with 2 Gigs
- Sound Card
- IDT Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 17.3
- Screen Resolution
- 1600x900
- Hard Drives
- 500 gig
- Internet Speed
- 3.5 mb/sec