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Do BIOS hiccups void warranty (read full)

Hello evryone,

Greetings from Bulgaria

Recently on my asus tuf f16 fx607vu i wanted to make a change from armoury crate where the computer uses only the nvidia gpu for evrything and bypasses the igpu. It was running smooth until i installed valorant and their anticheat required that i enable secure boot on my laptop but when i did enable the option “secure boot control” from the security tab from the bios menu and clicked to add the pk keys a problem arrised. The keyboard lit up and the fans started spinning upon restart but the display wouldnt turn on. ( my guess is that the setting which bypasses the igpu messed something up) and i tried different methods to reset it and such but nothing worked. Then i thought to open the back panel and disconnect the battery in hopes that it would restore the bios settings to default but it was not a success my only remaining option is to give it back for repair but im scared that because i opened the back panel the will void my warranty even though i made sure there was no damage to the motherboard or anything. The only thing that is different now is that there was a black kind of like sheet that was stuck to the SSD and RAM with double sided tape that i removed and isnt on the laptop anymore (i only removed it because the tape got fucked up and didnt stick to the SSD) if it helps i bought it from Ozone.bg and there the warranty says that any repairs made by unauthorized people is subject to a warranty void. I appologise if any part of my question doesnt make sense and i apologise for bad english (im Bulgarian). Any tips and info will help.

Thank you.

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