2012-12-02, 09:09 | Link #1 |
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UEFI vs BIOS
I finally have a first taste of a UEFI mobo today. It has a nice interface, but it doesn't detect partitions, extra HDDs or any network card on it until the driver is manually installed.
Can someone provide an insight into what exactly is this, and why is it constantly touted as bigger and better than BIOS?
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2012-12-03, 16:48 | Link #2 | |
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Its basically bananaware a perpetual beta. The software ripens or rather matures at the customer site. Thats you Saintess. Now be a nice beta tester and report all those minor issues. (Sorry, I don't mean to be mean. Its just another way to say. Oh no, why would you buy immature technology... but if it makes you feel better... look at it this way: its basically Loli-tech ~ way too young )
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2012-12-04, 23:26 | Link #3 |
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I wonder if Saintess refuses to buy USB sticks and keeps using floppies instead. Floppy disks store a smaller amount of data, 1.44 megabytes versus gigabytes upon gigabyes, therefore they are loli and more moe. |
2012-12-05, 06:13 | Link #4 | ||
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I was building a PC for my friend on the fly (requisitioning parts on the spot and doing all the math based on budget) and was using a new Gigabyte board, but I didn't realise that Gigabyte switched all their new boards to UEFI. UEFI has been around since the mid-2000s, though from what I have read, it has only just been commercialised. Is anyone here using an UEFI board, and can tell me the practical cans and cannots of it? Quote:
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2012-12-05, 17:42 | Link #5 |
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UEFI is a new standard made by Intel. I think it's first widely used in Macs when Apple transitioned to Intel processors in 2006. Basically, it has more advantages over BIOS as it supports drives over 2 TB (with the new GUID partition table), is CPU dependent, CPU dependent drivers, and also supports Secure Boot along with other things. However, it's only has native support with Windows Vista or higher, Recent versions of Linux and BSD (excluding Mac OS X as you can't install that on non-apple machines without some kind of hack). So essentially, it's supposed to be better than BIOS as it's becoming outdated and BIOS doesn't support drives over 2TB natively.
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2012-12-05, 19:44 | Link #6 |
AS Oji-kun
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Ubuntu and RedHat ended up licensing Microsoft's UEFI signing key just so people could continue to install Linux distros on UEFI machines. From everything I've read, the added "security" UEFI provides is minimal at best, but it did erect yet another barrier to all of Microsoft's competitors. I'm especially concerned about whether UEFI will restrict the use of bootable CDs which give people the opportunity to try Linux without altering their machines. We'll see what happens.
Saintess, does that motherboard come with a physical switch to disable UEFI? At one time I recall that hardware manufacturers were strongly encouraged to offer this option on their motherboards. Any evidence for that in your case?
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2012-12-05, 20:03 | Link #7 | |
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So far, I read through forums about long-term problems and my friend has yet to call me for a bricked boot. Though there seems to be a workaround that can permanently disable UEFI on the firmware side.
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2012-12-06, 07:25 | Link #9 |
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Straight from Wikipedia.
Pros of UFEI: - Ability to boot from large disks (over 2 TiB) with a GUID Partition Table, GPT.[12][13] - CPU-independent architecture[12] - CPU-independent drivers[12] - Flexible pre-OS environment, including network capability - Modular design I don't know too much about a motherboard's BIOS other than how to overclock them, but UFEI just looks more fancy and streamlined giving sensor, status and component info on a silver platter. I feel like they're trying to make the BIOs more user friendly to people who don't know much about computers so that they can learn. A few other things I have heard though sound interesting regarding UFEI. Overall because of it's improved basic I/O on the software side it makes POST functions faster so it usually cuts down on boot/POST up times compared to BIOS boards. It also is supposedly more diagnostic friendly so problems on a broken board can be quickly isolated and repaired as there seems to be more sensors and status feedback. But as Jinto has said it is relativity new to consumer market boards so the GUI and functions are less straight forward than BIOs. I recently bought a Gigabyte Z77-UD5H motherboard LGA 1155 for my new gaming rig which I hope it last me for a good 5+ years. I'm loving this my new computer so far.
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2012-12-06, 10:51 | Link #11 |
AS Oji-kun
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Plus you know that companies like HP will use up all four primary partitions no matter what size the drive and stick the large Windows partition in the middle so it cannot be easily resized if you want to add another operating system.
Is it not possible to boot a 2+ TB drive using a standard BIOS if it is partitioned to include a small initial partition with the boot loader installed there on in the Master Boot Record?
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2012-12-06, 12:25 | Link #12 | ||
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Enthusiasts make up a tiny segment of the market though, so most users probably don't see much benefit. Quote:
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