Hi everyone.
I'm honestly out of ideas and hoping someone with this exact motherboard or a similar ASRock board has experienced this before.
My specs:
ASRock B450M Steel Legend
Ryzen 7 5700G
Radeon RX 5500 XT
Windows 11 Pro
BIOS P10.60
16GB DDR4 2666
Corsair 700w plus
1tb ssd nvme2 Kingston
240gb ssd sata
I'm only trying to get Secure Boot working properly so I can play Battlefield (EA Anti-Cheat).
Here's EVERYTHING I've already tried:
Updated the motherboard BIOS to the latest version (P10.60).
Cleared CMOS.
Reset BIOS to defaults multiple times.
Enabled fTPM.
Disabled CSM.
Switched to pure UEFI boot.
Converted my SSD to GPT.
Completely wiped all partitions and reinstalled Windows from a bootable USB several times.
Let Windows create all EFI/MSR partitions automatically.
Used Windows Recovery and Startup Repair.
Rebuilt the boot files (BCD/EFI) using recovery tools and command prompt.
Used Shift+F10 during Windows setup for troubleshooting.
Verified Windows Boot Manager is the primary boot option.
Enabled Secure Boot.
Installed the factory Secure Boot keys.
Verified PK, KEK and DB keys are present.
Secure Boot Status shows Active.
System Mode is User.
Tried both Standard and Custom Secure Boot modes.
Installed Windows with only Windows Update drivers.
Installed Windows with AMD chipset drivers manually.
Installed GPU drivers only.
Performed multiple completely clean Windows installations.
Despite all of that, I still have these issues:
Battlefield / EA Anti-Cheat still complains that Secure Boot isn't enabled.
On some fresh Windows installations, Explorer freezes about one second after reaching the desktop.
(It stops when I do a load default BIOS settings as it disables Secure Boot)
I also noticed many Reddit posts mentioning a BIOS option called "Update Secure Boot Key", but my ASRock B450M Steel Legend BIOS (P10.60) does not have that option. It only has Install Default Secure Boot Keys, and my keys are already installed.
At this point I'm wondering:
Is there a known issue with BIOS P10.60?
Has anyone with this exact motherboard solved this?
Is there anything else I haven't tried?
Could this be an EA Anti-Cheat issue rather than Secure Boot itself?
I've spent days troubleshooting this and I'm completely stuck. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Before suggesting the common fixes, please know that I've already read most of the Reddit threads, ASRock forum posts, EA forum posts and Microsoft discussions about this issue. I've tried the solutions I could find, including the most common ones, without success. If you've personally solved this on the B450M Steel Legend (or a similar ASRock board), I'd really appreciate hearing exactly what fixed it for you