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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: timbo5000 on November 24, 2010, 11:18:36 am

Title: GA-P35T-DQ6 Boot Select
Post by: timbo5000 on November 24, 2010, 11:18:36 am

I need to 'lock down' a PC so that it will only boot from its Hard Drive (unless you go into the BIOS) and change the boot devices.  The Hard drive is encrypted and needs to be secure.

Many Thanks

Title: Re: GA-P35T-DQ6 Boot Select
Post by: Dark Mantis on November 24, 2010, 11:30:16 am

Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte UK Forum.

Do I take it that the techs there at MI5 have forgotten how to do it? ;D

The best way is to go into the BIOS and disable all the boot devices except for the HDD that you want to use and then set a password for the BIOS so that nobody can change your settings ( and no "God" is not a good one to use). You can also set up a password for booting if you want to go to that much trouble.

Title: Re: GA-P35T-DQ6 Boot Select
Post by: timbo5000 on November 24, 2010, 11:39:10 am

I have set up a BIOS password and that's working but the 'splash' screens both show press <F12> to select Boot and can still boot from CD so I want to turn off the F12 ability.

Title: Re: GA-P35T-DQ6 Boot Select
Post by: Dark Mantis on November 24, 2010, 12:45:48 pm

To be honest I am not sure that it is possible to disable the F12 option without actually changing the coding.

The only possibility is to go into the First/Second/Third Boot Device in the BIOS and make sure that CDROM is set to disabled.

You should be able to stop anyone else booting the computer at all with a System Password in the BIOS.

Title: Re: GA-P35T-DQ6 Boot Select
Post by: timbo5000 on November 24, 2010, 12:54:37 pm

Don't know weather to be  :( or  :o, It's not a desperate requirement (we arn't MI5) but encrypting Hard drives is going to become important for us in the next few months, mostly on laptops but we will need to do a few Desktop's.

I have the Hard drive as the only boot device in BIOS but the F12 gets rond it all, it's a nice option to have normally but I could really do with stoping a hacker using Linux or another OS to get into my Windows Encrypted Hard Drive.

Do you know if any Gigabyte mother boards can be locked down like this ?

Title: Re: GA-P35T-DQ6 Boot Select
Post by: Dark Mantis on November 24, 2010, 01:06:33 pm

I will ask our local Technical Support but you might want to take it up with GGTS directly and see if they can offer a solution.

Just enter your email address and click on the language of choice.
GGTS   http://ggts.gigabyte.com.tw/Default.aspx

Title: Re: GA-P35T-DQ6 Boot Select
Post by: Dark Mantis on November 24, 2010, 01:34:59 pm

Yes I have had an answer back ( very quick ) and it was basically that GGTS should be able to help you with this problem.

Title: Re: GA-P35T-DQ6 Boot Select
Post by: timbo5000 on November 24, 2010, 01:51:35 pm

Many Thanks, I have sent an email off to GGTS, we shall see what they have to say.

Title: Re: GA-P35T-DQ6 Boot Select
Post by: Dark Mantis on November 24, 2010, 02:02:06 pm

It will probably take a few days to a week but I am sure they will do their best to help you. ;)