Problem with secure boot

Question

I'm trying to install windows 11 on a relatively old desktop, asus b350 motherboard, it supports secure boot, uefi and all that good stuff. This bad boy has been running for 7 years now. Now i am doing this because the last install which was about a year ago, also windows 11, was corrupted and couldn't boot, later found out why but was too late i had already formatted the drive.

The problem now is that when i try to install windows and set the USB as a boot priority, it goes into a boot loop, skipping the installation. I fixed this by disabling secure boot which weirdly worked and now i could install it by removing the secure boot requirement. But when i try to boot windows after the install to do the initial setup, boot loop again...

I activated secure boot and it booted up once again just to give me errors telling me to restart my pc and restart the installation.

I must add that i'm 90% certain that the uefi was the reason why windows couldn't boot at first. I formatted the system partition and the recovery partitions and also the efi partition.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Dear reza,I understand that you solved the problem by updating the BIOS;

Thanks for sharing the solution with the community, it's very useful;

See you soon!

Answer 2

Hello reza, welcome to the Microsoft community, I'll be happy to help you today;

I understand that you are having problems installing Windows 11.

You reported that it is a relatively old PC, what exactly is your CPU model?

Have you tried enabling TPM 2.0?

On older systems Windows 10 may work better;

Access the BIOS and send a screenshot showing how the boot priority is defined;

See you soon!

Hi

I've resolved the issue by updating my bios firmware.

My guess is the updated secure boot keys resolved the issue

I can now install and boot windows with secure boot activated.

Tpm 2.0 is already enabled.

To be honest with you i not impressed with windows 11, having to log into accounts and being online for the setup, I might go back to windows 10 later down the road.

Answer 3

Hello reza, welcome to the Microsoft community, I'll be happy to help you today;

I understand that you are having problems installing Windows 11.

You reported that it is a relatively old PC, what exactly is your CPU model?

Have you tried enabling TPM 2.0?

On older systems Windows 10 may work better;

Access the BIOS and send a screenshot showing how the boot priority is defined;

See you soon!