texhex
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5 years ago To my knowledge, there is no forum especially for BIOS Sledgehammer and to be honest, this wouldn't make a lot of sense to me. It's just one of the tools you are using to stage a PC, so I would think a general SCCM/Deployment forum makes more sense.
Regarding your issue I have no idea where this comes from. The result of your changes should be deterministic, either it works all the time or never.
There are two points here that might be worth a second look:
a) The BIOS calls the boot order "EFI", not UEFI. This could indicate that this device is not fully-UEFI compliant so maybe there is an BIOS update required before you try to boot first into Windows 10.
b) If I understood your order correctly, the device will have at the end an MBR and UEFI partitions. Maybe the BIOS gets confused by this when it tries to read which OS to load from the EFI partion (if the device has one). It would be interesting what BCDedit say. Or even better, give Visual BCD Editor (https://www.boyans.net/) a try and check if you see anything "strange"
Hi,
Firstly thanks for a great tool.
Is there a forum for users to discusses the BiosSledgehammer and other related topics, BIOS configurations and Firmware etc ?
I'm posting this here as I'm not having much luck with the resources I have reached out to thus far. If you feel this is not appropriate feel free to close this ticket.
We are switching from Win7 to Win10, this is being done using SCCM task sequence (OSD) and is effectively a format and reload. I have setup BiosSledgehammer to reconfigure the BIOS as part of the initial steps. As part of re-configuring the BIOS we are switching to, UEFI.
The Model I'm having the most trouble with is the HP EliteDesk 800 G1 SFF, how ever I configure it I get "No option to boot to", when I look in the BIOS there is no HDD listed under the UEFI boot order, but if I run the deployment multiple times it suddenly works.
This is my current configuration :
Boot
SATA Emulation==AHCI EFI Boot Order==USB Floppy/CD,USB Hard Drive,ATAPI CD-ROM Drive,Network Controller IPv4,Network Controller IPv6,Other PXE Option ROMs==UEFI Only Storage Option ROMs==UEFI Only Video Option ROMs==UEFI Only
Secure Boot==Enable
Legacy Support==Disable Legacy Boot Vector Re-entry==Disable
OS management of Embedded Security Device==Enable Reset of Embedded Security Device through OS==Enable Tpm PPI policy changed by OS allowed==Enable Tpm No PPI provisioning==Enable Tpm No PPI maintenance==Enable
CPU and Performance
Turbo Mode==Enable Hyper-Threading==Enable Multi-processor==Enable Virtualization Technology (VTx)==Enable Virtualization Technology Directed I/O (VTd)==Enable USB3.0 BIOS Driver Support==Enable
BIOS
Asset Tracking Number == @@COMPUTERNAME@@ Automatic BIOS Update Setting==Disable
Are there any errors ?
My task sequence for apply the BIOS settings:
Are there any issues with this configuration?
Regards G