Secure Boot Violation with OWC Thunderbay 4

[TinyChris]

Hello Guys, i want to report a potential issue:

My Thunderbay 4 Storage Solution is causing a Secure Boot Violation. Normally this would not concern me since usually i would deactivate Secure Boot, But BF6 and Bo7 are both Games that will require it enabled going forward. I narrowed this Error down to my Thunderbay, since unplugging it will boot my PC normally without any Violations. My Software is up to date, also i use Bios Version 3001 on my Z790 Hero.

I can not find any Thunderbolt Security Settings to just ignore this Error in this particular Bios. Is there anything i can do to fix this without running into this annoying Error after every Reboot? I circumvent this right now by just plugging the Thunderbay into my PC AFTER Booting but that is kinda annoying.

Greetings,

Chris

[JohnAb]

Not seen that behaviour before, but I'd be worried about why it's happening. Assuming that the PC is not trying to boot from that external drive, then I would certainly be scanning for viruses and similar. As far as I know, secure boot would not activate like that unless the PC was trying to load up information which does not comply with authorised keys.

Do you have any other OS installed on that external drive? Also, just check your boot order in BIOS and make sure that only drive C (Windows) is set to boot first

[TinyChris]

There is only my Windows Drive in the Boot Manager, also on my Thunderbay i only store Video Files, no sketchy Data. I assume its just the Drivers my PC does not like in Secure Boot. In older ASUS Bios the Solution would have been to lower the Thunderbolt Security, but that does not exist anymore sadly.

[JohnAb]

Fair enough. I don't know then. I assume it's something to do with the Thunderbay hardware? I have an external Thunderbolt drive connected all the time and never seen that issue. Mind you, it is encrypted and hence unreadable unless unlocked, but I didn't see that even before it was encrypted. Sorry I can't help.