MSI GT-60 No Secure Boot in BIOS

Hey all I am in a bit of a pickle.
I have an MSI GT-60 that came with windows 8. I don't like windows 8 so I decided to put windows 7 on it. When I did the laptop blue screens and restarts every 2 minutes due to the video card (it wont blue screen if I disable it) I dug up a little and found out this is the most likely problem
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=165501.0
Among others it would seem the main problem is the BIOS needs to be flash to the new version. My laptop is still under warranty so I contacted support and after many lengthy conversations they finally gave me instructions on how to upgrade the factory windows 8 bios to the new windows 8 bios which will hopefully solve this problem. They specifically said DO NOT flash to a windows 7 BIOS.
The main step required to update the BIOS is to disable secure boot. My BIOS's security screen is completely blank except to create a password. I scrolled through the entire BIOS and there is NO secure boot option. Has this happened to anyone before and or know how to update the BIOS ?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Quote from: Chad_GT60 on 23-January-14, 01:54:53
Hey all I am in a bit of a pickle.
I have an MSI GT-60 that came with windows 8. I don't like windows 8 so I decided to put windows 7 on it. When I did the laptop blue screens and restarts every 2 minutes due to the video card (it wont blue screen if I disable it) I dug up a little and found out this is the most likely problem
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=165501.0
Among others it would seem the main problem is the BIOS needs to be flash to the new version. My laptop is still under warranty so I contacted support and after many lengthy conversations they finally gave me instructions on how to upgrade the factory windows 8 bios to the new windows 8 bios which will hopefully solve this problem. They specifically said DO NOT flash to a windows 7 BIOS.
The main step required to update the BIOS is to disable secure boot. My BIOS's security screen is completely blank except to create a password. I scrolled through the entire BIOS and there is NO secure boot option. Has this happened to anyone before and or know how to update the BIOS ?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
It happened to me before on my windows 8 msi ge40. I downgraded to windows 7 & flash the bios intended for windows 7, i.e. I replaced the pre-flashed windows 8 bios that comes with the notebook when i bought it with Windows 7 bios i downloaded from the MSI GE40 product download page.
& when i decided to revert back to windows 8, i noticed that the secure boot option was no longer there in the bios. I tried to boot my system from the windows 8 recovery media (USB flash drive) i prepared but the system could not boot from it. I was trying also to revert back to windows 8 bios but the system could not boot from the usb flash drive.
I contacted MSI and asked for their help. They sent me the below link but it simply did not work.
http://www.msi.com/files/pdf/How_to_make_a_bootable_flash_disk_and_to_flash_BIOS_f.pdf
So what I did was i went again to BIOS download page of my notebook. There are 2 ways in there to update the bios. And between the 2, this one works for me
http://www.msi.com/files/pdf/Flash_BIOS_by_UEFI_BIOS_Setup_Utility_en.pdf
I was then able to revert back to windows 8 bios & of course, secure boot option returns. In fact, i have updated my notebook bios to the latest one intended for windows 8.1
Hope this helps.

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