Change to 'Bios' will make for PCs that boot in seconds

si8mon · 11 Oct 2010

Lordbob75 said:

Looks like my next upgrade will be with an MSI motherboard with UEFI then.

~Lordbob

Some more info on the UEFI from MSI.

MSI on UEFI

MSI's UEFI BIOS

A BOIS (well actually a UEFI) with a GUI!

Change to 'Bios' will make for PCs that boot in seconds-photos-msiclickbios2.jpg

Lordbob75 · 11 Oct 2010

si8mon said:

Lordbob75 said:

Looks like my next upgrade will be with an MSI motherboard with UEFI then.

~Lordbob

Some more info on the UEFI from MSI.

MSI on UEFI

MSI's UEFI BIOS

A BOIS (well actually a UEFI) with a GUI!

That looks pretty awesome.

~Lordbob

mickey megabyte · 11 Oct 2010

why don't they just stick a whole os in there?

now that would be fast.

Lordbob75 · 11 Oct 2010

mickey megabyte said:

why don't they just stick a whole os in there?

now that would be fast.

+1

~Lordbob

si8mon · 07 Nov 2010

The Asus UEFI utility has been by previewed by a Swiss tech site and the utility looks, in my opinion...... awesome!

The downside is that the actual video, not the report (thanks to Google Translate) is in Swedish. So if there are any Swedes on this forum, I would love to know whats in the vid.

Asus UEFI Preview

Dave76 · 07 Nov 2010

Nice link, thanks.

I will be happy to see this fully implemented, the sooner the better.

si8mon · 07 Nov 2010

Dave76 said:

I will be happy to see this fully implemented, the sooner the better.

Same, Can't wait to look at all these new (Sandy Bridge) UEFI motherboards that are going to be released in a few months.

johnwillyums · 07 Nov 2010

Will UEFI definitely require a new motherboard or could an existing one be upgraded?

mickey megabyte · 07 Nov 2010

a clean install is best :)

Trucidation · 07 Nov 2010

Having read through the whole thread... I sorta see madtownidiot's point. If for whatever reason (hardware failure, malware, PEBKAC...) the UEFI gets corrupted, I really hope there's a fallback somewhere kinda like the BIOS now so you won't be totally screwed. You'd just stick a bootable disc/usb and initiate repairs like we already do for hdds with problems. Or maybe have the ability to revert any UEFI configuration changes to the last known good one.