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    EFI bios - the future

    EFI the Extensible Firmware Interface, the replacement for the BIOS will not be supported by windows vista in the intitial release at least...

    ugh........................................

    Bios is basically a legacy system programmed in machine code whilst EFI will be programmed in C++ which is a much wider used language. It will allow for bios config to be done in an attractive windows kind of environment. It is a modular driver based architecture which will be easier to upgrade and debug. It will shorten boot time, it will provide full legacy support. It will be able to access more than 1mb of preboot ram.

    http://www.deviceforge.com/articles/AT4903582708.html

    in short it is kicking ass and m$ft are not going to support it yet even though the latest macintels already do.
    Last edited by willawake; 04-29-2006, 01:42 PM.
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    Re: EFI bios - the future

    M$ pisses me off. Just when I start to soften on them (I like XP), they pull crap like this.

    Oh well. I wouldn't mind running Linux. I can still get my games to work.
    "Its all about the boom....."

    Guns kill people like spoons made Rosie O'Donnell fat.

    We now return you to your regularly scheduled drinking.

    "Fear accompanies the possibility of death.....calm shepherds its certainty"

    Originally posted by Topcat
    AWD is just training wheels for RWD.

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      Re: EFI bios - the future

      Hi I have been in computer business more then 35 year it means computer born right at the time i was working in electronic field and fist IBM XT base computer comes in the market and many other popular company such as Radio Shack started their brand Tandy the technology change and now every thing is faster and faster
      assume 64 k and 128 k total memory on floppy disk then 5 MB hard disk 10 MB 20 MB means you had top of the line computer , from monochrome to CGA EGA then VGA monitor in the market the other side apple IIe Apple IIc in the market it keep growing and growing any one saw fist windows Microsoft made was win3.0 it was monochrome version
      changing the topic just go to the new EFI boot, if some how your partition lost that has EFI you wont be able to boot from harddisk CD or any external Drive because small program read from efi boot partition and load in bios if the partition wont exist it means your computer useless unless you go this route and fix it i had customer brought hp all in one with windows error he try every thing but same error i think when win 10 upgrade performed it lost the efi boot or may be virus did that there is no way you can change efi boot in bios
      i spend about 4 hours to figure out and posting this comments it will help any one has same issue find out one machine same brand with win 8 efi boot option in bios then clone that hard disk to yours, you must backup your file if important before you clone i use
      clonezilla it is linux base you can try any other you use after you clone the disk new clone one you start the pc will boot then if you have any information on that hard disk from previous system go ahead and do complete factory restore and make one backup for your future or pay huge money to HP and other manufacture to get new hard disk with Image good luck *** Alvi

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