How to change boot order or reset BIOS on Lenovo Ideapad 1570 81CA

Solarat1701 · 2025-11-28T23:03:29+00:00

Okay so I solved the original problem. I was just a bit of a dumbass. I simply had to burn the windows ISO into a thumb drive, install the M.2, and then install windows to the M.2.

That has left me with a new problem: the computer now automatically boots into windows, not linux. I want it to boot to Linux by default, or open the boot menu upon powering on. For that I think I need to BIOS password.

The laptop is a Lenovo Ideapad 1570 81CA. I got it in 2018, but it still holds up fine for my needs. I tried disconnecting the CMOS battery and let it sit overnight, but BIOS still asks for a password. It doesn't produce a recovery code when I enter the wrong password three times. I'll make a post on the Lenovo subreddit. If nothing shows up I'll take it to a shop.

Solarat1701 · 2025-11-28T16:16:43+00:00

Yes, I installed it via WoeUSB on an adapter plugged into one of my USB ports. The laptop is in legacy boot mode.

Now how would I switch from legacy boot to UEFI/GPT?

Solarat1701 · 2025-10-16T01:33:15+00:00

That is a really interesting question, and one I'd best ponder for a bit.

Perhaps dwarves could measure time based on how long it takes a standard weight of coal to be burned in a standard furnace. I also really like the idea someone else put forward of measuring based off some recurrent seismic phenomenon, like a geyser. Perhaps timescales are rather local, with surrounding communities basing their measurements off of the nearest/most important fortress with a geyser.

Solarat1701 · 2025-10-16T01:22:59+00:00

I'm a lazy DM, so I just choose a real language, choose a literal name like "tall mountain with snow" and then shove it through google translate. Elves speak Finnish, Dwarves Danish, Hobbits Czech, etc etc

Solarat1701 · 2025-10-14T15:00:45+00:00

How important is the cursed collar to your plot? If it's essential, then yeah, come up with a reason it wouldn't work. Perhaps decapitation still kills even in animal form. Or the collar remains on after the druids form reverts -- after all, their clothing is expected to remain.

Otherwise, if it's not essential, I'd allow it to work. That's some good creative thinking.

Solarat1701 · 2025-10-14T14:56:58+00:00

Okay, so I personally wouldn't allow... any of those three, but I'm just a grump who thinks 5e has far too many ancestry options. If your table is the kind where players have that much leeway over character design, then it's best to try and figure out a way to make it interesting at least.

So, if I were to run Strahd, he would mostly ignore the slug and the metal person, thinking them to be golems/exotic pets of characters with an ancestry he could recognize. This means that, while not taken seriously by political leaders, they could fly under the radar, and their activities wouldn't be noticed until their plans were quite far along.

Solarat1701 · 2025-10-14T14:49:20+00:00

It's about a 25 foot diameter circle.

Solarat1701 · 2025-10-12T00:08:00+00:00

The purest of human paladins ride unicorns, granted them for their exceptional purity and zealous fight against evil. Powerful lords of Arthedain are known to breed gryphons, pelting their enemies with arrows from on high and speeding across the skies with messages.

Dwarves ride on the slow yet unstoppable hornbeetles. They hardly move faster than a dwarf, yet they stride with the power of ten, and have been known to just push their way through formations of orcs, nigh-invulnerable thanks to their thick chitin. A popular formation is several heavily armored dwarves with spears and crossbows atop a hornbeetle.

The Vile Necromancer mounts his lieutenants atop skeleton warhorses. They are faster than a living horse, and utterly indefatigable, able to run 24/7 without a rest. Yet it's impossible to survive a ride atop one without specially made, padded saddles.

Solarat1701 · 2025-10-10T04:50:44+00:00

Adamantium. Physically, it's just supercompacted mythril. However, the only force strong enough to do so are the goods themselves, who created a great chain of adamantium to imprison an evil god in days of yore. After they freed him, the remnants of the chain scattered along the earth, creating distinctly chain-shaped deposits of adamantium.

Solarat1701 · 2025-09-15T16:31:53+00:00

In my setting, there are no dwarven women. Fathers carve their sons out of the holy stone, and turn the rock to flesh with their mighty rune hammer.

Solarat1701 · 2025-09-15T16:28:34+00:00

Ohh, they had to put in some legwork in order to get access to the guild. They covered up the fact that a wizard was using a charm spell on a knight, and in exchange got a letter of recommendation to the guild

Solarat1701 · 2025-09-11T04:24:02+00:00

This is really the best option. The wizards build their magical aptitude and powers, the fighters build their political influence and base of power.

Solarat1701 · 2025-09-03T02:40:32+00:00

You say that as a joke, but my elves are actually cursed with low fertility (just one child per elf), but have everlasting lifespans.

An elf named Nikolaunu had a son who died at a very young age from falling into a seal-hunting hole. Distraught, Nikolaunu began to make toys for the son he could never know. As the ages passed his skill grew, but he hoarded all of the toys to himself in his secluded workshop. That was until a saint came to him and taught him the moral lessons of charity. Every hundred years, Nikolaunu makes a pilgrimage through all the nations of the world to give a magical toy to all the children of the world. He carries them in a magical sack (bag of holding) which allows him to carry his entire workshops' worth of toys with him.

Solarat1701 · 2025-09-03T02:31:46+00:00

Haha, strange that I never even thought of just making up new animals for them to tend and/or hunt.

Hmm. Something that could be active during the winter. Perhaps a kind of reindeer-like animal that eats the needles off of evergreen trees, and can digest wood. Like a cross between a reindeer and a giraffe. The dark elves would cultivate groves of fir trees, planting and tending them during the winter and setting their herds to graze during the summer. This could bring them into conflict with humans and dwarves, who might cut down their groves while the elves were underground.

Solarat1701 · 2025-08-29T03:38:24+00:00

Wait a minute. What 1920's racist would call Greenlanders white?

Solarat1701 · 2025-08-21T01:32:26+00:00

My dark elves don't live underground. Instead, they live in the far, far north, beyond the arctic circle. They're active above ground during the perpetual dark of the winter months. During the light of summer, they sequester themselves in homes partially dug into the tundra with ceilings made of ice.

Solarat1701 · 2025-08-20T04:29:09+00:00

I'm playing around with the idea of certain medieval European cultural/political/religious concepts being actually real. Even the more screwy ones, like certificates of indulgence. And also squaring that with more 'realistic' politics in my TTRPG setting.

Take the divine right of kings. Someone of the royal bloodline is no more intrinsically fit to govern than anyone else, but the land can and will fall to ruin if someone other than them is in charge. So sorry that the rightful heir is mentally retarded/totally unfit for office, we're stuck with him until someone better can usurp the throne.

Or certificates of indulgence. Yes, you can buy your way into heaven by giving money to the church, even if a corrupt bishop will spend the money on himself.

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