Recent content by anchamp65

Note to all: you have the week to understand the content of this NVRAM space 101 course The exam is friday morning, no notes allowed ! Joking aside, thanks Garlin for explaning all this !

Finally, what a relief it must be !

True, my bad... Bottom line, as Garlin mentioned multiple times, people need to find how to clear the keys and go into setup mode. If they have a password portected BIOS, they need to figure out how to remove it and in some cases they actually have to set a password to access advance settings.

Yup, 2 pins and double sided tape to hold them in place

Yup, seen those too Soldered one are the worst and riskiest to replace

Even laptops have a CMOS batteries, it's just harder to get to and usually implies removing a bunch of other parts to get to the battery. Complexity depends on each brand and model. I've opened enough desktops and laptops in my carreer, they all have a CMOS batteries.... ;-) And some laptops...

I used this tool many years ago and to change the password, you need to provide the current password. Has you can see in the extract from page 7 of the PDF. AFAIK, the only way to remove the password, without knowing the current password, is the CMOS battery removal method. Also, the...

I think he just double clicked on the bat from explorer and never used cmd or powershell windows on his own That's what I was trying to figure out with my post @botus you don't have to feel like an idiot, you just have different knowledge...

Hi Have you ever used cmd.exe, powershell or terminal ? Just want to know what you are familiar with...

And Surface is their hardware brand Hilarious !!!

Yes this is the good script to run Garlin's script downloads them to the EFI partition under folder "EFI\Certs" No need for a USB drive

I have read this whole thread and I never felt like your tool was being put down by any of Garlin's comments Has he stated, provide a preferred contact method so this discussion forum can refer people to your support mecanism when they ask about Mosby And I have absolutely nohting against you...

I read the post you shared and it's the samething that Garlin will have you do UEFI PK Cert ------------ Pegatron PK Manual update of [KEK CA 2023] is REQUIRED. Except the post gives you the steps inside the BIOS to do it which Garlin can't give to everyone because everyone have different BIOS...

Did you add "-verbose" The minus is important so that the parameter is correctly interpreted inside the powershell script

I noticed the same thing If you run the check script without any parameters, PK is not listed But if you add "-verbose" as parameter, then it shows the PK section @garlin, I think a few versions back, you did show the PK section without having to supply the "-verbose" parameter UPDATE: I went...