On all my Dell laptops there is a CMOS battery. Although these batteries are of the "coin" type they generally have postitive and negative wires flash welded to them and a tiny connector on the other end. Pull the connector from the mother board and the bios gets reset... at least the time and...
I must be mistaken on the model number. I will try what you've suggest in a few days. I have read somewhere in this thread about having to set a password to do anything with the keys. I guess I could try that too.
So I've successfully updated 3 Dell laptops and one Asus Desktop but I am having an issus with my wifes old Dell desktop.... I think it's a Optiplex 3050.
This PC lets me replace the KEK cert however when I reboot the PC it does get installed. None of the other Dells would allow this, they...
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Ok, Now I get:
Bootable Media
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USB Drive I: "8 GB"
Windows Boot Manager [Windows UEFI CA 2023] is ALLOWED.
I:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi
File Version: 28000.322, SVN 8.0
I build my Macrium X USB boot disk and performed Check_UEFI-CA2023.ps1 -bootmedia -verbose and get:
Bootable Media
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USB Drive I: "8 GB"
Boot File [Production PCA 2011] is BANNED
I:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi
File Version: 28000.322, SVN 7.0...
It worked! This PC is happy once again! Thank you Garlin! So here's the full history if anyone wants to see.
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 1863 GB 0 B *...
The last part fails?????
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 1863 GB 0 B *
Disk 1 Online 3726 GB 0 B *
Disk 2 Online 3726 GB...
So I'm a little nervouse about doing this so bear with me... So I shold select partition 2 since it's the System?
DISKPART> select disk 0
Disk 0 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> list part
Partition ### Type Size Offset
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