I've come across similar issues with OEM installs before, where it simply will not boot if anything but the OEM's factory image is installed by the OEM's install disks.
Profoundly annoying, but, thankfully not commonplace and those couple times it's happened to me I've been in the return window, so, back they went. I figure that's as big of an FU as I can muster, the OEM dealing with a higher than normal return rate.
Last time it was a HP laptop running a god aweful bloatware infested version of windows 8.1, never again.
Oh God fuck HP, their EFI always seems to be the most crippled yet full of BS ones. Unfortunately we currently have a deal with HP at work for workstations and had all kinds of B/S going on with the setup utility, upgrading it, enabling stuff etc. we were with Fujitsu for ages before and they mostly just had very stock looking setups that even were still good old text mode.
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I've come across similar issues with OEM installs before, where it simply will not boot if anything but the OEM's factory image is installed by the OEM's install disks.
Profoundly annoying, but, thankfully not commonplace and those couple times it's happened to me I've been in the return window, so, back they went. I figure that's as big of an FU as I can muster, the OEM dealing with a higher than normal return rate.
Last time it was a HP laptop running a god aweful bloatware infested version of windows 8.1, never again.
Oh God fuck HP, their EFI always seems to be the most crippled yet full of BS ones. Unfortunately we currently have a deal with HP at work for workstations and had all kinds of B/S going on with the setup utility, upgrading it, enabling stuff etc. we were with Fujitsu for ages before and they mostly just had very stock looking setups that even were still good old text mode.