Alright guys, here is the scoop. I just got a refurbished ASUS K75DE laptop, and it came with Win8 on it. I am wanting to run a dual boot with Win7, so I disabled fast-boot just fine, and went into the UEFI BIOS and disabled the secure boot.
While I was there, I did like I have always done and set a BIOS boot-up password. I then proceed to boot to my Win7 installer USB Flash drive, but I was running low on battery power so I aborted the install and shut the computer down to try again later.
Now however when I get into BIOS to select boot priority, all options are grayed out except for system time and a few other non-essentials. At the bottom of the first BIOS screen it says "User Level : User" and I can't seem to find a way to reverse this issue. So now I'm stuck, can't boot to anything but the HDD because it is first by default.
I know this is a Windows 8 forum, but I have literally spent 6 hours Googling this problem and have made no gains. I did update my BIOS version to the latest because someone said they couldn't change any boot order options, but it made no change.
Please help! Any ideas might prove helpful. I've been posting all over the net on forums seeking a solution. Any info or clarification you need, just let me know.
While I was there, I did like I have always done and set a BIOS boot-up password. I then proceed to boot to my Win7 installer USB Flash drive, but I was running low on battery power so I aborted the install and shut the computer down to try again later.
Now however when I get into BIOS to select boot priority, all options are grayed out except for system time and a few other non-essentials. At the bottom of the first BIOS screen it says "User Level : User" and I can't seem to find a way to reverse this issue. So now I'm stuck, can't boot to anything but the HDD because it is first by default.
I know this is a Windows 8 forum, but I have literally spent 6 hours Googling this problem and have made no gains. I did update my BIOS version to the latest because someone said they couldn't change any boot order options, but it made no change.
Please help! Any ideas might prove helpful. I've been posting all over the net on forums seeking a solution. Any info or clarification you need, just let me know.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Win 8, Win 7, Ubuntu 12.10