Latitude E6410 and UEFI - a warning

I tried to set up a Dell Latitude E6410 last week, and whoever had it before me toggled the UEFI setting in the BIOS. This leads to disaster. I installed Win 7 Pro with the UEFI setting and the system would not boot at all after Win 7 was completely installed. Then I rebooted and pressed F12. The resulting menu showed both the older legacy boot menu choices and the UEFI ones. So I picked the UEFI hard drive and the system booted. (The extra sludge of a UEFI partition was present.) But wait a minute! No self-respecting person is gonna wanna hit F12 every time the system powers up.

So I went into the BIOS and selected legacy boot and reinstalled again. Same mess, and same dual choices of legacy and UEFI boot.

Seems to me that the E6410 BIOS is defective, all versions including the last A15 BIOS.

I finally fixed the problem by wiping the drive clean, then reinstalling with legacy settings. The system now boots up without recourse to the F12 key, and the F12 menu still shows both legacy and UEFI device choices. Seems to me it ought to be one or the other. And why not?

UEFI is not to be confused with UEFA, the governing body of European football, known as soccer in this country... Ben Myers

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I tried to set up a Dell Latitude E6410 last week, and whoever had it before
me toggled the UEFI setting in the BIOS. This leads to disaster. I
installed Win 7 Pro with the UEFI setting and the system would not boot at
all after Win 7 was completely installed. Then I rebooted and pressed F12.
The resulting menu showed both the older legacy boot menu choices and the
UEFI ones. So I picked the UEFI hard drive and the system booted. (The
extra sludge of a UEFI partition was present.) But wait a minute! No
self-respecting person is gonna wanna hit F12 every time the system powers
up.

So I went into the BIOS and selected legacy boot and reinstalled again.
Same mess, and same dual choices of legacy and UEFI boot.

Seems to me that the E6410 BIOS is defective, all versions including the
last A15 BIOS.

I finally fixed the problem by wiping the drive clean, then reinstalling
with legacy settings. The system now boots up without recourse to the F12
key, and the F12 menu still shows both legacy and UEFI device choices.
Seems to me it ought to be one or the other. And why not?

UEFI is not to be confused with UEFA, the governing body of European
football, known as soccer in this country... Ben Myers

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always learn something just reading the Subject lines, and clicking the
interesting ones...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified...ware_Interface

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How did you reinstall with legacy settings. I used a quick format software to wipe HD. Then installed Win7 Pro, but afterwards, I still have to press F12 to get it to boot. If I don't, a blank screen displays with a flashing line, and it never goes past that. I always have to boot into UEFI - Windows Boot Manager.

Also, I can't enter the BIOS because it is locked by the previous owner, and I can't get the password to unlock it. Is there a way to wipe this password as well?

Robby

On Wednesday, September 4, 2013 1:40:15 PM UTC-4, Ben Myers wrote:
I tried to set up a Dell Latitude E6410 last week, and whoever had it before me toggled the UEFI setting in the BIOS. This leads to disaster. I installed Win 7 Pro with the UEFI setting and the system would not boot at all after Win 7 was completely installed. Then I rebooted and pressed F12. The resulting menu showed both the older legacy boot menu choices and the UEFI ones. So I picked the UEFI hard drive and the system booted. (The extra sludge of a UEFI partition was present.) But wait a minute! No self-respecting person is gonna wanna hit F12 every time the system powers up.



So I went into the BIOS and selected legacy boot and reinstalled again. Same mess, and same dual choices of legacy and UEFI boot.



Seems to me that the E6410 BIOS is defective, all versions including the last A15 BIOS.



I finally fixed the problem by wiping the drive clean, then reinstalling with legacy settings. The system now boots up without recourse to the F12 key, and the F12 menu still shows both legacy and UEFI device choices. Seems to me it ought to be one or the other. And why not?



UEFI is not to be confused with UEFA, the governing body of European football, known as soccer in this country... Ben Myers

On Thursday, July 3, 2014 3:58:38 PM UTC-4, wrote:
How did you reinstall with legacy settings. I used a quick format software to wipe HD. Then installed Win7 Pro, but afterwards, I still have to press F12 to get it to boot. If I don't, a blank screen displays with a flashing line, and it never goes past that. I always have to boot into UEFI - Windows Boot Manager.



Also, I can't enter the BIOS because it is locked by the previous owner, and I can't get the password to unlock it. Is there a way to wipe this password as well?



Robby



On Wednesday, September 4, 2013 1:40:15 PM UTC-4, Ben Myers wrote:

I tried to set up a Dell Latitude E6410 last week, and whoever had it before me toggled the UEFI setting in the BIOS. This leads to disaster. I installed Win 7 Pro with the UEFI setting and the system would not boot at all after Win 7 was completely installed. Then I rebooted and pressed F12. The resulting menu showed both the older legacy boot menu choices and the UEFI ones. So I picked the UEFI hard drive and the system booted. (The extra sludge of a UEFI partition was present.) But wait a minute! No self-respecting person is gonna wanna hit F12 every time the system powers up.







So I went into the BIOS and selected legacy boot and reinstalled again. Same mess, and same dual choices of legacy and UEFI boot.







Seems to me that the E6410 BIOS is defective, all versions including the last A15 BIOS.







I finally fixed the problem by wiping the drive clean, then reinstalling with legacy settings. The system now boots up without recourse to the F12 key, and the F12 menu still shows both legacy and UEFI device choices. Seems to me it ought to be one or the other. And why not?







UEFI is not to be confused with UEFA, the governing body of European football, known as soccer in this country... Ben Myers

I have some software to remove the password from a Dell BIOS. Here is an article about Dell laptop password removal.

http://www.techspot.com/community/to...removal.18780/

If the suggestions in this article do not work for you, send me an email and I'll send back a ZIP file with the software on it. You need to put it onto bootable DOS media though. My email is

Here's another link, FWIW:

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/i...8114539AAKGkpy