I recently upgraded the RAM in my HP OMEN 30L Desktop (model GT13-1xxx) from the original 16GB HyperX Fury DDR4 3200 MHz to 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3600 MHz. After this upgrade, I'm encountering a persistent boot loop. When Secure Boot is enabled, I get a 'Secure Boot Violation: Invalid signature detected' error, followed by a '3F0 - Boot Device Not Found' message. If I enable XMP (Profile 1), the violation occurs continuously. The system will only boot into Windows if both Secure Boot is disabled and XMP is off, causing the RAM to run at only 2133 MHz. I have triaged a few things, including reseating the NVMe SSD and loading HP Factory Default Keys in BIOS, but the issue persists. I want to know if the Hana motherboard has a whitelist for specific HP RAM or if there's a way to get the new RAM signature accepted with Secure Boot enabled, without completely reinstalling Windows.
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Have you checked for a BIOS update? If your BIOS is outdated, it might not recognize the new RAM correctly, which could be causing the signature errors. Secure Boot checks the boot sector against a whitelist, and any changes in RAM could affect that. So, it's worth investigating to see if an update can resolve the issue.
Just to clarify, the Secure Boot's invalid signature is generally tied to the boot device’s integrity. If your BIOS has an option to reset or reconfigure Secure Boot, that can sometimes clear issues like this. A clean install might not even be necessary, but let's hope we can avoid that!
You might want to try loading the default BIOS settings and see if that helps. Sometimes, an upgrade can mess with the Secure Boot settings. If it still doesn’t work, consider checking if your RAM is functioning correctly; you could test the new sticks one at a time to see if one is causing the problem.
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