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<div>I am sure some of you may have been curious as to what happened regarding to my request for help on UEFI.</div>
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<div>As it turned out, the OS and motherboard had gotten corupted. One of the factors was the Dell all in one model (32bit), never truly shut down, and it was a first generation Windows 8, upgraded to 8.1.</div>
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<div>I ended up taking the unit apart and taking the coin size battery off the mother board and put eveything back together. Then as we all expected, I was able to change the bois/firmware back to legacy. Since the Windows 8 would only work in UEFI, I formated and put Ubuntu 14 on it, and still it doesn't truly shutdown. I have to unplug it.</div>
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<div>I have never come across a computer that could not truly shut down until now.</div>
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<div>Cheers</div>
<div>Abby</div>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 11, 2015 at 1:23 PM<br/>
<b>From:</b> "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca><br/>
<b>To:</b> phiscock@ee.ryerson.ca, "GTALUG Talk" <talk@gtalug.org><br/>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [GTALUG] UEFI bios/firmware</div>
<div name="quoted-content">On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 11:01:24AM -0400, phiscock@ee.ryerson.ca wrote:<br/>
> I had this same problem on an Acer laptop until I discovered you need to<br/>
> enter a password and enable the password.<br/>
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> When you are finished disabling things, you can then disable the password.<br/>
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So you have to set a supervisor/admin password for the bios before you<br/>
can change the secureboot setting? Crazy. :)<br/>
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Len Sorensen<br/>
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