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Does UEFI run on top of BIOS?
This page: https://wiki.osdev.org/UEFI and few others which are rather creditable mention that UEFI is kind of an application which run on BIOS (legacy BIOS) and not a firmware If I got it right. Some ...
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Cannot save boot order in BIOS
I have a weird problem - on my Lenovo Z570 I cannot change the default boot order.
I am trying to load a bootable DVD and I have two hard drives. The boot sequence has the DVD drive as last, but when ...
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How to boot POP! OS in UEFI mode without disabling secure boot on my computer?
I installed POP! OS on my laptop a few days ago but secure boot wont let me boot it. I cant disable secure boot or UEFI mode because after installing a bios update my BIOS setup menu wont open anymore....
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How to take screenshot of your UEFI Bios?
I never really needed it, but now that I'm starting to overclock, I'm curious. I've seen people posting their actual screenshots, not pictures from camera, from their UEFI Bios.
How can I do that?
I'...
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"Ghost" blank UEFI entry in Gigabyte BIOS
Background
I was trying to install macOS (Hackintosh) alongside Microsoft Windows 10 on my SSD, so I shrank the Windows partition using Disk Management and left an empty exFAT partition next to C: (...
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Screen goes black after trying to access BIOS Setup
I've been trying to access my BIO settings, in order to change the boot order to boot from USB first.
When booting the computer and holding down F12, the BIOS menu comes up fine, and I can access the ...
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Access UEFI Settings with Discrete Card Only
I have an MSI B550 PRO-VDH paired with a Ryzen 5900X CPU (no integrated GPU) and a dedicated GPU (RTX 3080). When I tried upgrading to Windows 11, I found out TPM 2.0 is disabled in the UEFI firmware ...
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UEFI "replaces" BIOS and "connects with firmware" but BIOS == firmware so WTF?
If you look for "UEFI Definition" on google you find :
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is a specification for a software program that connects a computer's firmware to its operating ...
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How does the video BIOS fit in the boot process?
I'm trying to understand how the boot process works and the differences that exist between legacy BIOS and UEFI, but when it comes to the video BIOS, I can't find much information except a small ...
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UEFI BIOS: APM power-on option set, but computer does not power on when power comes back
ENVIRONMENT
Asus VivoMini UN62-M033R
Intel Core i3-4030U @ 1.90 GHz 1.90 GHz
UEFI BIOS 0226 x64 Build 11/05/2014 9.5.20.1742
Windows 8.1 64-bit
WINDOWS SETTINGS
Windows Power Options: power button ...
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Black BIOS screen after enabling Secure Boot?
I am not sure if I have understood the underlying concept clearly. I have MSI B450M Pro board and MSI GT710 GPU based graphics card. Windows 10 installed in UEFI Boot mode on an SSD.
I thought to ...
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Restore Windows 10 EFI boot entry
I used my computer to install W7 on a HDD (from a laptop, that didn't have a DVD drive) and it worked flawlessly. Except that when I removed that HDD (that I had just plugged there the time of the ...
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Can a type 1 hypervisor guest OS flash the BIOS?
Type 1 hypervisors run on bare metal, and motherboard vendors provide software that allows bios to be flashed from a running OS. Can I flash a motherboard bios from within a running guest OS if ...
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How does one find GPUs that use UEFI GOP instead of legacy VBIOS?
I have a Mac Pro 4,1 which uses UEFI and has no legacy BIOS support. I'd like to purchase a graphics card which uses UEFI GOP by default instead of Legacy VBIOS since, otherwise, I won't see my boot ...
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ASUS: "Winflash does not support this BIOS update."
I'm trying to flash a new BIOS/UEFI firmware on my ASUS UX330UA. It currently has firmware version 300.
Easy Flash 3 (inside the current firmware)
Using EZ Flash 3 (booting to setup), I can browse the ...
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