MSI Prestige 16 AI+ A3HGM-016US laptop cannot dual-boot Fedora & Windows 11 in Secure Boot mode

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The MSI BIOS on this laptop, a Prestige 16 AI+ A3HMG-016US (AMD Ryzen 9 AI 365 CPU, 32Gb DDR5), does NOT support any Advanced Mode as far as I can tell. Pressing F7 while in the BIOS has NO effect nor is there any menu option to load any “Advanced Options.” Also the modified “secret key press” for the MSI AI/Co-Pilot+ PCs has no effect as well. I cannot boot Fedora with Secure Boot turned on because of the way in which MSI locks the user out from loading any third-party keys. Can’t boot Ventoy either because it won’t allow me to load the Ventoy key. Thus I CANNOT dual-boot Fedora and Windows 11 unless I leave the machine with Secure Boot turned OFF. Now, the reason I got into this whole MESS to begin with is that I wanted to run Windows 11’s controversial “Recall” feature which will NOT load unless Windows 11 is started with Secure Boot on. If I leave Secure Boot OFF I can easily dual-boot Windows 11 and Fedora V44 Workstation KDE Plasma 6 but when running Windows 11 using the “Recall” feature is no longer an option. I am 65 years old, I worked for the US Army for 35 years in Information Technology, I have spent HOURS on this problem to no avail. In the end my conclusion is that the MSI BIOS will only accept a Microsoft-certified key and will not allow for third-party keys to be loaded into the BIOS, Fedora simply will not boot in Secure Mode. I have spent HOURS on this problem. Another laptop I have a new HP OmniBook X 17-inch model running an Intel CPU has NO problem running dual-boot in Secure Mode, it’s only the new MSI laptop that has this problem. Any new MSI Co-Pilot+ laptop users out there confirm my findings??? Tell me where I am wrong, if I am wrong.. and yes, the laptop is running the latest BIOS (April 2026).
 
Contact MSI support: You should open a support ticket and ask them directly how to enable the "Microsoft 3rd Party UEFI CA" or manually load Secure Boot keys on the Prestige 16 AI+. Mass user feedback is often the best way to pressure them into bringing these features back in the next BIOS update.
 
Thanks! I did just that a few weeks ago. MSI said "Too bad, so sad.." and hung up. No basically they said that this is a business-class laptop and they do not support any advanced functions in BIOS. They said even if there was some "secret key sequence" to access an advanced BIOS they wouldn't give it out. They also said they don't support Linux on this machine so I'm S-O-L on multiple fronts. Thanks for taking the time to reply though! Much appreciated!
 
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