Has anyone tried setting an administrator password in the Maximus VIII Hero's UEFI BIOS (version 1302)? Holy god. What a nightmare that was. It took me over 20 minutes to get things back to normal.
In truth, you can set the administrator password just fine, but once you restart and try to go back into the BIOS, look the **** out! It'll be like your video card is taking a runny crap and puking into the same bucket.
It basically borks the entire interface once you restart and go back into the BIOS with an Administrator password set. The resolution reverts to something god-awful like 640x480, and the screen doesn't refresh on its own. The only way you can see anything at all is by using the mouse as a "screen refresh" tool. You have to move the cursor convulsively all over the screen just to see which menu you're currently in.
I need someone to help me verify that this isn't just a problem with my system, because if it's not, this needs to get fixed pretty darn quick. If you have a Maximus VIII Hero running version 1302 of the BIOS and aren't afraid of your BIOS potentially puking in your face, then please give me 5 minutes of your time and help me out so that we can help everyone else out. I need to see if this happens on another system besides mine.
The process is this:
I need you to go into your BIOS, but before you do anything else, add Security ---> "Administrator Password" to your My Favorites screen. Afterwards, scroll down to the bottom of your My Favorites and make absolutely sure that it's in that list of favorites. If you experience the same problem I did, then this will make your life a whole heII of a lot easier once you're trying to get things back to normal.
Next, set an administrator password, but for the love of god, DO NOT restart the system yet. Do yourself a huge favor and immediately clear the administrator password you just set, and use only the keyboard to do it. The purpose of this is to familiarize yourself with the sequence of keystrokes that it takes to clear the administrator password. I would set and clear the administrator password like this (without rebooting) a couple of times, or at least until you're confident that you'll be able to clear the administrator password using nothing but the keyboard, keeping in mind that your display will be of little or no use as you're doing so.
Once you've assured yourself of this, put on your waders 😉 and set an administrator password one more time. Once you've done this, restart the machine and immediately go back into the BIOS. If you're lucky, everything will look like it should and we can both say yippee, it doesn't affect everybody (for some reason). We'll deal with that if it becomes necessary.
If not, then you'll have the privilege of seeing firsthand what I was talking about. Move the cursor wildly around the screen as if it's the eraser tool in Paint. The screen will refresh the parts of the screen that are directly underneath the cursor as you're doing this. Use it for what you can, but if your screen looks anything like mine did, the resolution will be so low that you won't be able to see much of anything anyway.
Alright, remember that keystroke sequence you practiced 50 times? Sweet. :cool: Now would be a good time to use it. Use the keyboard to clear the administrator password and then restart the system. Afterwards, go back into the BIOS one more time to make sure everything's back to normal.
That's all there is to it. The whole procedure should take 5 minutes or less. It took me over 20 minutes just to write up this post, so someone's "guinea pig" assistance would really be appreciated. By helping me, you're potentially helping everybody with this same motherboard. Thanks