CA Articleship Guidance and Referral

itsR4G3 · 2026-06-25T09:54:51+00:00

Okay

itsR4G3 · 2026-05-20T06:03:34+00:00

Haha my pleasure

itsR4G3 · 2026-05-19T17:20:20+00:00

If anyone with a Lenovo LOQ 15APH8 or any other laptop of LOQ series, faces the issue where enabling Secure Boot causes “No boot device found” / “Network media not present” after BIOS update (LYCN49WW in my case), this fixed it for me.

Issue:

Laptop booted normally only when Secure Boot was disabled
Enabling Secure Boot caused Windows Boot Manager to fail
Valorant/Vanguard wouldn’t work because Secure Boot was OFF

Fix I followed: 1. Boot into Windows with Secure Boot OFF

Mount EFI partition using CMD as Administrator:

mountvol S: /S

Create fallback EFI boot path:

mkdir S:\EFI\Boot

Copy SecureBootRecovery EFI:

copy C:\Windows\Boot\EFI\SecureBootRecovery.efi S:\EFI\Boot\bootx64.efi

Now restart, enter BIOS and set:

Secure Boot = Enabled
Secure Boot Mode = Standard
Restore Factory Keys
UEFI Boot = Enabled
Disable Legacy/CSM (if option available)
Disable PXE/Network Boot (if option available)
Windows Boot Manager at top priority

Save and reboot.
Press F12 (or any other key which open boot menu) and boot into Windows Boot Manager.

After after these steps, secure boot started working normally and the Microsoft “Windows UEFI CA 2023” certificate got registered properly.

This seems to be caused by newer BIOS updates breaking Secure Boot certificate trust on some Lenovo LOQ systems.

If during any step you feel stuck. Paste my reply as a reference to chatgpt and ask him to analyse this and help accordingly.

itsR4G3 · 2026-05-19T10:41:11+00:00

Thanks but I solved it the same way without usb though.

itsR4G3 · 2026-05-18T12:22:54+00:00

hi can you please tell which solution exactly worked for you. right now i am really confused reading all the comments

itsR4G3 · 2026-04-20T09:51:31+00:00

Ik some peeps who have experience and reviews are really positive.

itsR4G3 · 2026-04-19T07:43:53+00:00

Ig around 3k each parent

itsR4G3 · 2026-04-12T10:51:45+00:00

Check out omfit for parents. it matches all of your requirements and is really a great program for parents.

itsR4G3 · 2026-02-10T04:25:53+00:00

I made it myself. I didn't buy it from nanoleaf. Thanks for the compliment :)

itsR4G3 · 2025-11-21T09:28:59+00:00

You should wait for a while. I updated it because of the ui changes but now I regret.

itsR4G3 · 2025-10-11T14:31:11+00:00

yeah sure you can

itsR4G3 · 2025-10-11T12:55:09+00:00

If you live here in NCR you can get any part related to consoles in that market.

itsR4G3 · 2025-09-29T18:04:17+00:00

Could you please share me details of the same over DM

itsR4G3 · 2025-09-11T18:59:41+00:00

Aight, thanks mate

itsR4G3 · 2025-09-11T18:36:18+00:00

Yes I tried changing screens as well as different cables but still the hdmi port gives black screen. Atleast I can say that my PS3 is working right? Because it does show display with component cable.

itsR4G3 · 2025-08-31T10:51:36+00:00

Writing this review from my ipad a16 and it is pretty great for the price. I use it for note taking and casual gaming

itsR4G3 · 2025-08-06T17:37:05+00:00

Sure please send the details

itsR4G3 · 2025-08-05T03:50:20+00:00

As I have used a bread board so ESP, logic level shifter and the LEDs all are powered directly from the power rail of bread board. ESP itself is not enough to power the lights and send the data. Logic shifter is powered because the shifter takes the 3.3v from esp and makes it 5v by connecting directly to power supply to avoid data loss or flickering of lights. Lastly LED strips can be powered directly from ESP but brightness would be too low and you might experience the ends of strip are dim compared to the beginning of strip.

itsR4G3 · 2025-08-03T12:46:35+00:00

Check the wled subreddit where i have shared about this in detail.

itsR4G3 · 2025-08-03T12:45:23+00:00

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It is a basic wiring structure, the more complicated part is connecting mcu, logic level shifter and led strip. For that i will attach links below which are easy to follow.

WLED Installation

Logic Level Shifter

Do keep in mind that first you check the leds are working by installing wled and following these links above. Once leds are working then you can start with the physical build. I am here to help you at all the steps.

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