Can you try a different USB stick some drivers for sticks may not work so well :/
AFAIK Secure boot I think will allow for an initial load but then crash (from my experience with windows installers half working) Emperically I think the boot loader will be fine but kernel loading might be stopped ) (im guessing loosely on that one and have not looked in too deep ... Check Secure Boot Mode to setup Mode ? (as opposed to user mode ) While you are in the neighbourhood and entirely irrelevant to the tread... while you are in the bios kill off the Hyperthreading too :) you may want to disable AMT : / (if you dont need out of band access to your laptop (or anyone else ) (levovo is cool that they can permanently disable AMT ) Hope this helps On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 19:23, Todd Brewster <toddbrewste...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Hi Tom, > > Thank you for your reply. To answer your questions: > - secure boot is off > - TPM is off > - manufacturer TPM keys have been deleted > - there is no other OS > > If secure boot would be an issue, I would expect no boot at all. > > I am pretty much stuck at the moment. > > Thanks and all the best, > > Todd -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth.
