3️⃣PC & BIOS Setup

1. Disable all overlays (Geforce Experience, MSI Afterburner, Xbox Gamebar, Discord, Steam, etc)

2. Remove any pin and/or password on your Windows user account.

NOTE:

If you do not do this, you may have issues when disabling TPM if previously enabled.

1. Ensure that your Disk structure is GPT - MBR is not supported.

   • Open CMD > enter diskpart > enter list disk > validate your Windows drive is GPT

1. Ensure that your system is running UEFI

   1. Click here how to change from Legacy BIOS to UEFI

If Windows doesn't boot, set BIOS mode from Legacy + UEFI to be UEFI only BIOS

1. BIOS Settings

INTEL	AMD
ENABLE VT-X (VMX or VIRTUALIZATION)	ENABLE SVM
ENABLE VTD	ENABLE NXMODE
DISABLE SECURE BOOT	DISABLE SECUREBOOT
DISABLE TPM	DISABLE TPM
DISABLE CSM ( Does not always exist )	DISABLE CSM ( Does not always exist )
DISABLE PTT ( Does not always exist )

Note: If you can't disable secure boot, DELETE the security keys instead.

Google your motherboard for a guide if needed.

1. Enable HyperV

   1. Run Windows Powershell as Admin

   2. Enter these two commands:

Windows Power Shell (Administrator)

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V -All 

DISM /Online /Enable-Feature /All /FeatureName:Microsoft-Hyper-V

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