I got a new Mobo. Windows installer doesn’t see the nvme drive. For some reason the bios has a million settings and are all alien to me.
I took a lot of photos of all the settings, so many unknown entries
The motherboard is from an unknown Chinese OEM and it’s using a laptop core i7 but in a itx form factor. I have no idea of the brand, really. The box just says “motherboard” and there’s no silkscreen on the PCB (it was very fun guessing which pins were for the front panel). No user manual was included. The bios it says “version: default string”
I hate when OEMs lock down bios settings but here is the opposite, they enabled everything
I’ve never seen this before but I did some googling and it looks like you’re in a setup utility for setting up a BIOS. Here’s a link to some info that might be helpful. The minitool link says this can happen because the computer can’t detect your hard drives, so it might not resolve anything. Have you tried booting with a Windows or Linux installation USB drive?
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-do-i-get-off-of-aptio-setup-utility/ccabf95a-4e59-49b8-b16b-5cfdc3b3deff
https://www.minitool.com/backup-tips/aptio-setup-utility.html
The hint worked! It mentioned to enable csm, but for windows 11 is useless as it doesn’t support booting in legacy mode. But it was loading a loader from Rufus before Windows, so I tried to check if it was interfering with that. I checked secure boot. It was enabled but with custom keys by default. Why the F would they create a default with invalid secure boot keys??
Once restored to Microsoft keys, the USB booted without showing the Rufus UEFI loader and the setup recognized the drive.