So my wife's laptop gets this "Secure Boot Violation - Invalid signature detected. Check Secure Boot Policy in Setup" message this morning, basically not allowing her to start the computer, or at least move past the bios if you hit enter a couple times. I google a few solutions and start running through them when I get home from work. The first one was "Go in disable secure boot and fast boot, and enable csm support". Ok, I do that, boom now I've got a black screen that says "Reboot and select proper boot device, or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key.
I fiddle with it for a bit, at some point I managed to get to the advanced boot menu or whatnot with F9 (but since, have been unable to access it again even with going through all the steps of the process and trying to replicate where i may of been at the time), so I go create a usb to install / repair windows 10 with, because at this point, the hard drive is still showing in the bios, so I'm not thinking it's bricked on me (usually they just don't appear at all in my experience if that happens). Anyway, i come in and try to repair startup, nothing happens, just get sent back to windows install on reboot, ok, can't do windows restore because of some other unknown error that popped up during that. Great. So I head into the command prompt through the the troubleshooting bar of the install utility and I can't remember what command I looked up at the moment to display the partitions of the hard drive, but everything showed up as normal. Including the ASUS restore partition and whatnot, all listing as health in the cmd prompt.
The bios manager I have on this version looks a bit different though than some of the others I've seen in the various fix tutorials, so the options aren't all the same, and I wanted to see if anyone can maybe help shed some light on the subject because I'm at a loss right now as to what to do. It doesn't seem like a reformat is necessary (though, if it is, then there's another problem, because the windows installation doesn't come with a key on the damn laptop, so the recovery partition is really the only option without me pirating or buying a new copy somewhere.
I fiddle with it for a bit, at some point I managed to get to the advanced boot menu or whatnot with F9 (but since, have been unable to access it again even with going through all the steps of the process and trying to replicate where i may of been at the time), so I go create a usb to install / repair windows 10 with, because at this point, the hard drive is still showing in the bios, so I'm not thinking it's bricked on me (usually they just don't appear at all in my experience if that happens). Anyway, i come in and try to repair startup, nothing happens, just get sent back to windows install on reboot, ok, can't do windows restore because of some other unknown error that popped up during that. Great. So I head into the command prompt through the the troubleshooting bar of the install utility and I can't remember what command I looked up at the moment to display the partitions of the hard drive, but everything showed up as normal. Including the ASUS restore partition and whatnot, all listing as health in the cmd prompt.
The bios manager I have on this version looks a bit different though than some of the others I've seen in the various fix tutorials, so the options aren't all the same, and I wanted to see if anyone can maybe help shed some light on the subject because I'm at a loss right now as to what to do. It doesn't seem like a reformat is necessary (though, if it is, then there's another problem, because the windows installation doesn't come with a key on the damn laptop, so the recovery partition is really the only option without me pirating or buying a new copy somewhere.