Gotta say I didn't have much knowledge about UEFI. All I know is that on the Dell XPS 8700 I brought last year, UEFI Secure boot was set as default, and I just kept using it.
However, I was forced to know a little bit more about it.
It started when I was messing with my broken Dell Dimension workstation I brought back in 2007. I found that almost NOTHING from this workstation that I can reuse in the newer Dell XPS 8700 workstation EXCEPT a PCI Express based eSATA card. So I installed it on my XPS 8700 and found that it was NOT being recognized.
After spending almost 2 hours to keep looking around, I finally decided to give one thing a try: change the boot setting from UEFI Secure Boot to UEFI non-secure boot. And BOOM, after I made that setting change, I was able to see the eSATA BIOS menu showing up, and sure enough the 2 eSATA ports were working, and I was able to use my eSATA harddisk dock.
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