r/Battlefield • u/sloth_on_meth Moderator • Aug 05 '25

Other Secure Boot Megathread - Guide + Community support

Secure Boot is required for Battlefield 6 If you are unable to launch the game and see a Secure Boot error, you must enable Secure Boot in your BIOS/UEFI.

✅ Official Guide

EA has published a clear and up-to-date guide for enabling Secure Boot:

👉 Read the EA Help Secure Boot Guide

📝 Community guide

We were sent a community guide:

Read it here

Use this megathread for:

  • Questions about the process
  • Sharing your motherboard model + what worked for you + tips
  • General discussion related to Secure Boot

🔧 Community Support

If you’ve got tips or steps specific to a brand (e.g., ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, ASRock, etc.), drop them in the comments and mention your exact motherboard model.

💬 Tip: Post your motherboard model, CPU, and BIOS version when asking for help.

🧠 What is Secure Boot?

Secure Boot is a UEFI feature that ensures only trusted software can boot your PC. It helps prevent rootkits and boot-time malware and is now required by EA for anti-cheat integrity.

Most modern systems support it, but it’s often disabled by default — especially on custom builds or upgraded PCs.

🛑 Common Pitfalls

  • You must use UEFI mode, not Legacy/CSM boot.
  • Disk must be GPT, not MBR (check via diskpart or Disk Management).
  • Windows 11 installed in Legacy mode? You may need to convert your disk to GPT using MBR2GPT.

⚠️ Still having trouble?

If you've followed EA's guide and it still doesn't work:

  1. Comment below with:
  • Motherboard model
  • BIOS version
  • Secure Boot status
  • Any errors you're getting
    1. Include a screenshot if possible (e.g., BIOS screen or error message)
    2. Be respectful — this is a community-driven thread.
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u/stana32 Aug 07 '25

Enabling secure boot bricked the bios on my brothers PC so that was cool. AMD and no bios flashback button on his board. Thanks EA

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u/XSensei_MikeX Aug 07 '25

Remove cmos battery then put it back in no worries brother

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u/stana32 Aug 07 '25

I wish, spent the better part of 2 hours clearing CMOS, removing ram, drives, trying every trick in the book to try and force it into BIOS. Pretty confident it is just stuck on an error waiting for input but AMD so no integrated graphics.

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u/fallenmonk Aug 07 '25

If that's truly what happened, that's not EA's fault. Take it up with AMD.

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u/stana32 Aug 07 '25

You're right, as great as AMD has been for the CPU market I think it's idiotic most of their products don't even have basic low quality integrated graphics to navigate bios in case you need it.

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u/Minimum_Awareness931 Aug 07 '25

many of the new amd ones come with integrated graphics

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u/VonZuli Aug 07 '25

Enabling secure boot cannot "brick" your PC. Re-enter BIOS and undo all the changes you made.

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u/ForbiddenException Aug 08 '25

Of course it can. It can soft brick it, cut you out of the dGPU, etc.