My BIOS dies every time I try to boot from OpenCore

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Giuseppe Tripodi · November 15, 2020

Hello everyone!

So, I have a successfull dual boot Win/macOS Catalina based on Clover.

I was trying to upgrade to OpenCore in order to install Big Sur, so I created a bootable USB following a tutorial.

It's still not working, but that's not the point: the HUGE issue is that everytime I try to boot from OpenCore, my BIOS dies.

It means I can't access anymore pressing Canc on startup: it just go to a blank screen and dies there.

I fixed this twice by flashing a BIOS update from Windows (since the Clover bootloader on my drive is still working), but I can’t keep going like this.

I tought the issue I have with BIOS was caused by BootStrap, so I set BootProtect to None, but this didn't help.

I tryed to boot from OpenCore again now my BIOS stopped working again.

Frankly this bothers me A LOT.
I never had an issue like this with Clover. I'm thinking about giving up but any idea is welcomed.

MOBO: ASUS TUF Z390 PRO Gaming

Other PC parts > https://pcpartpicker.com/user/peppeuz/saved/FM3rVn

config.plist > https://pastebin.com/bnp7gZZC

EFI folder > https://ibb.co/cDRVyzH

Edited November 15, 2020 by Giuseppe Tripodi

MaLd0n · November 15, 2020

disable bootstrap

Giuseppe Tripodi · November 15, 2020

4 hours ago, MaLd0n said:

disable bootstrap

As I said, I’ve already tried but it didn’t help.

MaLd0n · November 15, 2020

use clover

EFI Premade folders visit https://tinyurl.com/ybr968w3

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