Got Vista to run on NVMe with one of George King's drivers, but it's unsigned. Any way to permanently bypass driver signature verification at boot?

[66cats]

More accurately, it's signed, but the sig can't be verified, so i need to F8 each time i boot. Looking for a way to permanently disable driver signature verification, or somehow add add George King's (public key? authority? cert? the thing that would make that signature valid). Have tried thus far:

bcdedit /set nointegritychecks on

bcdedit /set testsigning on

bcdedit /set ddisable_integrity_checks

No luck. Not a coder, know nothing about driver signing, so nothing's 'too obvious.' Thanks.

 

[D.Draker]

3 hours ago, 66cats said:

Looking for a way to permanently disable driver signature verification, or somehow add add George King's (public key? authority? cert?

Of course, there's a signing tool, it's named and explained at my nVidia tutorials. It will issue a system trusted cert.

[66cats]

29 minutes ago, D.Draker said:

Of course, there's a signing tool, it's named and explained at my nVidia tutorials. It will issue a system trusted cert.

Thanks, found your tutorial, found Driver Signature Enforcement Overrider, will try in a few. Thanks again.

 

EDIT: So simple! Thanks for the tip.

Edited January 25, 2024 by 66cats

[D.Draker]

3 hours ago, 66cats said:

Thanks, found your tutorial, found Driver Signature Enforcement Overrider, will try in a few. Thanks again.

You're welcome, don't forget to run as admin. Restore point, just in case.

[66cats]

After 3 reboots (had to sign 3 files), everything works as it should. Thanks again, great tool.

[D.Draker]

3 hours ago, 66cats said:

After 3 reboots (had to sign 3 files), everything works as it should. Thanks again, great tool.

Yep, it never failed me, repeat the procedure in about 10 years (it's how long the cert is usually valid).

[TSNH]

@66cats Does this driver actually work for you outside of vmware? If so which one is it exactly?

EDIT

Got that from a Reddit post, I assume it was you posting there :)

Edited January 27, 2024 by TSNH

[jaclaz]

54 minutes ago, TSNH said:

@66cats Does this driver actually work for you outside of vmware? If so which one is it exactly?

EDIT

Got that from a Reddit post, I assume it was you posting there :)

And are you going to share a link to the actual driver or at least to the specific Reddit post ?

jaclaz

[TSNH]

1 hour ago, jaclaz said:

And are you going to share a link to the actual driver or at least to the specific Reddit post ?

I am not completely sure if a link to the modded drivers would be allowed by the forum rules, but I guess the Reddit thread should be fine.

https://old.reddit.com/r/WindowsVista/comments/19e1bxn/finally_got_vista_to_run_on_nvme_look_on_my_works/?rdt=36369

[66cats]

2 hours ago, TSNH said:

I assume it was you posting there :)

Guilty.

2 hours ago, TSNH said:

Does this driver actually work for you outside of vmware?

That's a HW install (x99 board). Plagued with the typical 4th - 13th gen Vista boot issues (black scree ~1 out of 3 times), but once it is up, everything's fine, been using it without issues.