Finally, Gigabyte Goes UEFI

WarraWarra · Sep 16, 2011

Thrackan said:
You might also remember that back in 1994, there was still proper rock music on the radio. Wonder if that will catch up too

+1 @ Steevo and Thrackan.

The UEFI is nice enough and the asian bios layout is well not very western world "nice" especially the hello kitty and other stuff they love over there.

Look at tomato firmware layout very nice 95% there / what would be ideal.
Look at dd-wrt firmware layout very nice, mix of tomato and dd-wrt would be perfect.

I can also remember the compact gui bios before the bios firmware wars started.
Must be the extra gimmicks in their gui bios that led to HP buying compact and now HP well, not computing anymore. Maybe Gigabyte can learn from Compact gui bios and not follow Compact to HP to dissolved.

EarthDog · Sep 16, 2011

yogurt_21 said:
this annoys me actually, there's a reason server bios's are still all text based. We want function, not pretties. Pretties are for clients that hit the applications hosted on the server.

I like function in my bios, pretties in my OS. prettying up my bios and losing relevant and necessary features isn't my idea of advancement.

Remind me what was lost in functionality with the move to a mouse based/gui/uefi bios please...?

WarraWarra · Sep 16, 2011

tilldeath said:
I'm not really up to date on the uefi, but will this be a possible upgrade to existing motherboard bios with a flash? Or does it acutally have to be built into the bios at factory?

Not sure, theoretically if there is a storage device then you can load anything on it, Gigabyte will tell you no so that you would need to buy a new motherboard as they would not get cash for old bios updates and the issues that would result on your win xp not loading on it.

Same as using OSX for pc you need to disable the UEFI to get it to load. Not even sure or don't care if win7 works with UEFI as I am not going to downgrade to win7 :banghead:

again or use UEFI soon.
If it means I have to give up Win XP then hell no I would not go. :nutkick:

[H]@RD5TUFF · Sep 17, 2011

ABout fracking time, has it been verified it's actually UEFI and not a skinned bios.

xBruce88x · Sep 17, 2011

did someone mention AMI? (edit: ah it was btarunr) I stumbled upon their corp. HQ the other day

they actually let me inside

I think i could have just walked around where ever b/c no one knew i wasn't working there until i asked if they were hiring lol. they had a nice display up front with a few motherboards with their bios. i would have took a pic but i wasn't sure how they'd react to that... while i was there i saw a guy with some ram talking about testing it on something they're working on. next time i'm in Norcross near them i'll tell them i'm a member of TPU and see if they'll let me get some pics or some news on what they're up to.

now that i think about it, i think the system with the cool looking bios back in the day was an AMI bios. it wasn't using a boot disk either. i can't remember the computer exactly... i want to say either packard bell, ibm, gateway, or hp. I remember the motherboard tray was removable and i think it used a slot PII. also the mouse pointer had a tail that moved while you moved the mouse, i lol'd every time using that pc

@thrackan, the closet thing i can find to a proper rock radio station is Project 9-6-1 Atlanta (WKLS i think)

eidairaman1 · Sep 17, 2011

Yes UEFI does require more memory on the Bios Chip, heck the bios chip that is on the AsRock 970 Extreme 4 is different from the Bios chip on my sig rig

xBruce88x said:
i think uefi requires more space due to all the images and whatnot, so many current boards may not be able to load UEFI even if the manufacturer wanted to. unless some boards have socketed bios chips that the manufacturer could send as an upgrade that have more storage room for the UEFI software rom

^ @tilldeath

@xor and steevo. I was thinking the same thing. I think it was a packard bell that i used with a s7 166cpu. the interface reminded me of an early mac os. it was pretty cool though at the time. (still is really). too bad there were no OC settings, o wait that's what jumpers were for back then

as for the built in web browser... that's pretty neat. will come in handy if you need to google settings or forgot to get drivers (at least one would hope you can dl files to a flash drive)

xBruce88x · Sep 17, 2011

oh wow... AMI is a member of the UEFI forum, makes sense i guess since ami was the first with a bios gui of sorts.

http://www.uefi.org/about/

btarunr · Sep 17, 2011

xBruce88x said:
oh wow... AMI is a member of the UEFI forum, makes sense i guess since ami was the first with a bios gui of sorts.

http://www.uefi.org/about/

So is Phoenix Technologies (the company behind AwardBIOS).

Goodman · Sep 17, 2011

I'll wait for Award to get on UEFI , i hate AMI bios...

INSTG8R · Sep 17, 2011

I am very pleased with the UEFI BIOS makes things just easy all round to be able to point and click my way around. I of course run it in Advanced mode not the Basic Mode like the screenshots posted.
I think it is a great step forward for ease of use. Not just purely a cosmetic thing.

Steven B · Sep 17, 2011

the BIOS shots displayed show the advanced mode, there will also be another style BIOS like easy mode. Also GB said that they will have very unique features that others do not have. As the basis for the UEFI comes from AMI, GB is still using their AWARD BIOS team to code a lot of things for the BIOS and I am told that it should be pretty cool. I mean GB owns the AWARD BIOS team, so we will see how it goes. But we have to wait and see, so far it looks ok.

Wile E · Sep 18, 2011

WarraWarra said:
Not sure, theoretically if there is a storage device then you can load anything on it, Gigabyte will tell you no so that you would need to buy a new motherboard as they would not get cash for old bios updates and the issues that would result on your win xp not loading on it.

Same as using OSX for pc you need to disable the UEFI to get it to load. Not even sure or don't care if win7 works with UEFI as I am not going to downgrade to win7 again or use UEFI soon.
If it means I have to give up Win XP then hell no I would not go.

If you think 7 is a downgrade compared to XP, you sir have bigger things to worry about than UEFI.

Goodman · Sep 18, 2011

Wile E said:
If you think 7 is a downgrade compared to XP, you sir have bigger things to worry about than UEFI.

I some how miss that post...

Win7 a downgrade from XP must be kidding , right? :roll:

C'mon wake up man :slap:

(WarraWarra)

TheMailMan78 · Sep 18, 2011

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