CPU/Mobo UEFI replacing BIOS by 2011 ..... what r we going to do...?

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New PCs could start in just seconds, thanks to an update to one of the oldest parts of desktop computers. The upgrade will spell the end for the 25- year-old PC start-up software known as Bios that initialises a machine so its operating system can get going. The code was not intended to live nearly this long, and adapting it to modern PCs is one reason they take as long as they do to warm up. Bios' replacement, known as UEFI, will predominate in new PCs by 2011. The acronym stands for Unified Extensible

Firmware Interface and is designed to be more flexible than its venerable predecessor. "Conventional Bios is up there with some of the physical pieces of the chip set that have been kicking around the PC since 1979," said Mark Doran, head of the UEFI Forum, which is overseeing development of the technology. Mr Doran said the creators of the original

Bios only expected it to have a lifetime of about 250,000 machines - a figure that has long been surpassed. "They are as amazed as anyone else that now it is still alive and well in a lot of systems," he said. "It was never really

designed to be extensible over time." AMI is a firm that develops Bios software. Brian Richardson, of AMI's technical marketing team, said the age of the Bios was starting to hamper development as 64-bit computing became more common and machines mutated beyond basic desktops and laptops. "Drive size limits that were inherent to the original PC design - two terabytes - are going to become an issue pretty soon for those that use their PC a lot for pictures and video," he said. Similarly, he said, as tablet computers and other smaller devices become more popular, having to get them working with a PC control system was going to cause problems. The problem emerges, he said, because Bios expects the machine it is getting going to have the same basic internal set-up as the first PCs. As a result, adding extra peripherals - such as keyboards that connect via USB rather than the AT or PS/2 ports of yesteryear - has been technically far from straightforward. Similarly, the Bios forces USB drives to be

identified to a PC as either a hard drive or a floppy drive. This, said Mr Richardson, could cause problems when those thumb drives are used to get a system working while installing or re-installing an operating

system. UEFI frees any computer from being based around the blueprint and specifications of the original PCs. For instance, it does not specify that a keyboard will only connect via a specific port. "All it says is that somewhere in the machine there's a device that can produce keyboard-type information," said Mr Doran. Under UEFI, it will be much easier for that input to come a soft keyboard, gestures on a touchscreen or any future input device. "The extensible part of the name is

important because we are going to have to live with this for a long time," said Mr Doran. He added that UEFI started life as an Intel-only specification known as EFI. It morphed into a general standard when the need to replace Bios industry-wide

became more widely recognised. Alternatives to UEFI, such as Open Firmware and Coreboot, do exist and are typically used on computers that do not run chips based on Intel's x86 architecture.

The first to see the benefits of swapping old-fashioned Bios for UEFI have been system administrators who have to oversee hundreds or thousands of PCs in data centres or in offices around the world. Before now, said Mr Doran, getting those machines working has been "pretty painful" because of the limited capabilities of Bios. By contrast, he said, UEFI has much better support for basic net protocols - which should mean that remote management is easier from the "bare metal" upwards. For consumers, said Mr Doran, the biggest obvious benefit of a machine running UEFI will be the speed with which it starts up. "At the moment it can be 25-30 seconds of boot time before you see the first bit of OS sign-on," he said. "With UEFI we're getting it under a handful of seconds."

"In terms of boot speed, we're not at instant-on yet but it is already a lot better than conventional Bios can manage," he said "and we're getting closer to that every day." Some PC and laptop makers are already using UEFI as are many firms that make embedded computers. More, said Mr Richardson, will result as motherboard makers complete the shift to using it. He said that 2011 would be the year that sales of UEFI machines start to dominate. "I would say we are at the edge of the tipping point right now," he said.

-----By Mark Ward------
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what the hell r we regular pc users going to do.....

do any buddy thing our bios can be replaced by UEFI.....

can we upgrade to it???

if not then what should we dooo....???

what do u think?????????
 
i know ..... but what do u think??? is for only getting reply and not any suggestions......

the though is something important and thats what i want.....

every one should reply on this topic as its some thing started in 2005 and next year it will hit our pc mobo market which will bring pc users like u just behind the pc with uefi so what other think is also important and thats what each of us should express...

just it's like an review on uefi or i shall say efi extinsion.....
 
I think you should put up the source properly with links and frame sentences properly like any 18 year old. I also think that its about time you reduce your excessive use of punctuations :P. Apart from that, its a good thing for regular users and there's nothing to add further.
 
The Sorcerer said:
I think you should put up the source properly with links and frame sentences properly like any 18 year old. I also think that its about time you reduce your excessive use of punctuations :P. Apart from that, its a good thing for regular users and there's nothing to add further.
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17 year old you mean.. :rofl:

Makes me feel old :(
 
@OP: First of all... Search for what is an EFI? educate yourself on the topic and understand why it is next step to BIOS. Instead of making it sound like some kind of disaster.

And as Sorcy mentioned, LINK your sources, instead of just copying pasting the full article. The common practice is that you paste a part of the article and provide the link so others can visit and read the full article, crediting the original author and website.
 
princeoo7 said:
can we upgrade to it???

if not then what should we dooo....???
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Deal with it....Your boot is gonna take a few seconds more than UEFI boot.I don't understand why you're freaking out...chill.This is not going to affect you in any way at all.Thanks for the info though, I wasn't aware of this.btw it's still not too late for you to add that link...
 
Zloyd said:
Wow OP posts a article and doesnt read it himself .... who would have thought.
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The title says it all... :P

It's like it's a doomsday... even bigger than 21-12-2012, bigger than LHC tearing a hole in time and creating blackhole and whatnot, bigger than aliens coming and invading our planet, bigger than what Michael Bay can blow up given unlimited budget... OMFG, it's UEFI.. what are we gonna do?
 
This is going to make Apple's life hell.. lol i can see a zillion hackintosh machines !!

That UEFI is the way forward is questionable .. there are still doubts about that. Msi and Gigabyte are amongst the biggest pushers for adoption of this tech along with Intel.

Intel Did push EFI onto apple when they made the switch from PowerPc to Intel .

The only thing that i can think off with EFI is that you have mouse support . Another Bummer with EFi is that PS/2 devices are history :(

Oh well time will tell ... dont think its going to go down quite as they have planned .

Cheers guys..
 
iGo said:
The title says it all... :P

It's like it's a doomsday... even bigger than 12-12-2012, bigger than LHC tearing a hole in time and creating blackhole and whatnot, bigger than aliens coming and invading our planet, bigger than what Michael Bay can blow up given unlimited budget... OMFG, it's UEFI.. what are we gonna do?
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lol....but just FYI I think you mean 21-12-2012.Maybe it was a typo....peace.
 
The article says 2011 we will start seeing this on the market I wonder who is going to release it first , maybe AM3+ , X68 will have this ?
 
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