Help with format please

[mikey92]

Hi guys Mike here, I just have a couple of questions regarding formatting my laptop from win8 back to win7.

Specs

HP Pavilion 15-P235TX

-Core i7 5500U 2.4ghz
-8gb RAM
-1TB HDD
-Geforce 840M 2GB

The issue I am having is when I boot into my BIOS (InsydeH20) and change the settings to enable legacy boot & the boot order, I press f10 to save & exit and it doesn't save, it reboots the laptop and the settings change back. I have updated to the latest BIOS and that didn't help, and im sure it isn't the battery as the laptop is new & the UEFI boot order can be changed and will save.

Any ideas please?

Thanks

 

[Ketchup]

Silly question but is the time and date correct? If you change some other random setting, does it save?

Can't say that I've run into this, save for a dead battery.

 

[user1193526]

I Havn't used it personally, but it sounds like that OverHyped UEFI Secure Boot option, that MS boasted so much about before UEFI's release, that supposidly made the BIOS more Secure from Lowlevel hacks/infections... However turned out to just be a marketing gimik that they used to not allow you to Dual Boot with Linux and the like, since you needed Legacy boot enabled to do so, but UEFI paired with win8 Didn't allow you to change it, for "security purposes" 🙄

I have no motivation to look up that BULLSHlT for you. If you havn't figured it out already, tho ur not dual booting, you may find your answer googling for how to duel boot linux on UEFI, or similar.

If it turns out not to be that, on an unrealated older type of system, I had relatively the same issue once, not UEFI of course tho... and a work around that I found worked in that particular case, was... to Save without Exiting, and then manually Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot, or hold the powerbutton down to manually reboot, and it would save. Like i said tho, completely diff older sys, but justa heads up if you run outa options.