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Try to Avoid Flashing Your BIOS
What a nightmare. I flashed my BIOS to the newest version because the new version offered speedups with some things. Well, avoid that if possible because, as I failed to read, it returned the BIOS to factory defaults, and that means it disabled UEFI and TPM2.0. When I went to check my DEV channel, it said in a rude, red box that my computer was not compatible. ARGHH!
That wouldn't be a problem, except that I forgot how to enable those settings. On to 20 minutes or so of figuring out things. So, 20 minutes later, with no real help from MSI might I add, I found my original notes on how to set up everything correctly.
The long and the short of it is don't update your BIOS unless you absolutely must do that. One would think the new BIOS flashes would automatically enable UEFI and TPM2.0.... Doesn't seem to be the case yet.
All I have to say is "Thanks goodness I was looking around or I'd have been rolled back!"
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Take it to a workshop if you couldn't fix the issue. This is very challenging!
Whew, glad you caught it! Yeah, it's a huge pain—BIOS updates almost always reset everything to default. For anyone else in this boat, you just need to reboot, spam the DEL or F2 key to get back into your BIOS, and manually re-enable UEFI Mode and fTPM/PTT under the security settings.
