Enable Secure Boot, TPM and UEFI on Biostar

Note about TPM

While a lot of motherboards support Secure Boot, most (even semi-modern) motherboards have a TPM or TPM 2.0 chip physically present.

If your motherboard does not have a dedicated TPM, it can come built-in to your CPU. This usually comes in a few names. Keep an eye out for:

• AMD fTPM or similar on AMD platforms.
• Intel IPT/PPT (Platform Trust Technology) on Intel systems.

If a dedicated chip is present it can show as dTPM or fTPM, for example. You may need to search a specific guide for your exact motherboard model if this generalized guide does not help you.

Note about UEFI mode

Enabling Secure Boot or TPM often requires UEFI mode to be enabled as well. While this is just a one-click toggle in the firmware settings, you do need your Windows configuration and drive to match BEFORE enabling this, or you may not be able to boot at all until this step is undone. Your drives need to be the newer GPT partition format.

Please view and verify UEFI mode can be enabled by checking the Convert MBR drives to GPT Guide.

Reboot into firmware settings

If you’re logged into Windows:

1. Open this guide on another device, as your system will only show firmware settings when you’re in the UEFI/BIOS settings screen.
2. Press Start or Windows and search for CMD. Open Command Prompt as Administrator.
3. Type: shutdown /r /fw and press Enter to reboot your system directly into your firmware settings.

Alternatively:

1. Reboot your system as normal.
2. While booting: when you see your motherboard’s logo there is usually text below saying Press F2, F12, Delete or any other combination of buttons to enter Settings, BIOS or UEFI. Press that key while still on this screen.
3. You should now be in your BIOS/UEFI settings ready to adjust your configuration.

Enable UEFI mode

This is displayed slightly differently - even from motherboard to motherboard from the same manufacturer.

1. Use the arrow keys to navigate to the Boot tab
   
2. Select CSM Support and hit Enter. Select Disabled.
3. Note: If you just changed into UEFI mode, you may have a restart pending before more settings can be adjusted. Select Save & Exit.

You should now boot into Windows with UEFI mode enabled!

Enable Secure Boot

Images from: Biostar’s official guide

1. Head to the Security tab and go into Secure Boot
   
2. Make sure to set Secure Boot to Enabled.
   

Enable TPM

Image from: Biostar’s official guide

1. Head to the Advanced tab.
   
2. Select and open Trusted Computing
3. Select anything next to TPM Device Selection other than Disabled, such as PTT (Intel) or Enabled (AMD).
   

Save and Exit

Finally, select Save & Exit. This should reboot your system with the changes applied.