[SOLVED] Red Screen of Death! Computer won't load W7 64bit this morning!

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pilotsh

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Hello all!

I can't believe what happened this morning. Last night installed windows updates and turned computer off. I turned my computer on like normal this morning and was greated with a red screen message, something about secure boot violation unauthorised changes.

I have a ROG Hero Maximus VII motherboard, and in the bios it won't let me disable secure boot.

So I tried my Windows 7 installation disk (64bit, genuine oem, i built my system over a year ago) and it says the disk is not compatible with this version of windows! That is impossible!!! I used the disk to install it!!!!

Any ideas on what to do now!?!?

I have photos of all three screens, how do I attach them so you can see them?
EDIT: I have attached links to them in a lower post
 
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Thank you for any ideas. The motherboard manual only mentiones the OS Type bios selection which is visible in the photo. It totally ignores the first two (currently greyed out) options of Secure Boot state and Platform Key state.

I do have the option of deleting the keys, but do not know if this is a good idea or bad idea, hence my posting here to see if anybody has any experience in this area. The last thing I want to do is rush into things and make it worse by doing something irreversible, such as deleting a key or reinstalling windows, if there is an easier (and less time consuming) way to fix things.

My past experience in computers was when mice and keyboards had their own plugs on the I/O panel and hard drives were IDE, so a lot of the BIOS settings are new to me, but as I have been messing and dealing with PCs since school, I AM HAPPY TO TAKE ADVICE AND LEARN. :)

In the mean time I will load windows on an external HDD and extract the files that haven't been backed up (hardly any) since my last auto weekly backup. This is about me trying to learn how these newer SATA, SSD and secure boot systems work! ;)
 
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I spoke to a friend who spoke to a friend who spoke to a friend, they said it is DEFINATELY a BIOS issue, and NOT Windows. So I deleted the Keys, which disabled the Secure Boot, and then my computer loaded. Yay!

Lucky I use Windows 7 because I think Windows 8 requires secure boot wheras Windows 7 does not. All I can think of is one of the Windows Updates maybe changed a boot setting?
 
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That I suppose is possible especially since Win7 wasn't designed to use Secure Boot. Keep in mind when Windows 7 came out. UEFI BIOS didn't exist, we still used the old fashioned BIOS designed in the 1980's.

I'm glad you got it working :)

 
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Ha! This is where older technology is sometimes a good thing. In my situation now, I would been stuffed with Windows 8/10 because they run Secure Boot! *uninstalls all KB updates that prepare Windows Updates for snooping and the Windows 10 upgrade*.

It is almost like Microsoft is trying to make people get fed up and move to another OS!!!

But for the advantage of anybody who stumbles upon this post in the future: don't be hasty and do anything irreversible, and if you backup frequently the stress levels stay low, even when the (inevitable) electronic glitch hits!
 
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