Dear All,

Head that this N45sf sandy bridge support this UEFI??... Can wwe straight away replace our BIOS to this UEFI from the BIOS option??
Please advice.. Thanks..

any source say it support?? not that sure bro.. need do some research... what info u gt? if u talk about the n45sf issue last time.. they modified the bios.. and said latest... if sandy bridge support, how bout others?? or only n45sf?

intersting ts bro...

It is highly possible we will have UEFI in notebook (I think till we see 3TB 2.5" HDD).

But UEFI in N45sf, do you have the source of the information?
Or this is your wishlist?

This post has been edited by ALeUNe: Feb 5 2012, 12:36 AM

sorry im noob about this.. anyway, in my start up BIOS shows the UEFI boot : enable/disable under the Boot configuration.. what would happen if i enable it?? anyone know how to setup this thing??? any terms and condition?? I would like to try / explore this new to me stuff... cos i heard that it is slightly better and updated than BIOS??!.. would appreciate and thanks to all for the help-reply...

This post has been edited by soloinruds: Feb 5 2012, 01:23 AM

Try enable it and tell us whether you get the UEFI interface or not.

From this wikipedia site column..
".....In 2009, IBM shipped System x machines (x3550 M2, x3650 M2, iDataPlex dx360 M2) and BladeCenter HS22 with UEFI capability. Dell shipped PowerEdge T610, R610, R710, M610 and M710 servers with UEFI capability. More commercially available systems are mentioned in a UEFI whitepaper.[23] Many Sandy Bridge PC platforms use UEFI....."

apparently, my n45sf, 2nd generation Intel comes with a sandy bridge motherboard and got this UEFI option in the startup BIOS..

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Added on February 5, 2012, 1:40 amhow does this uefi interface figure?? Is it safe if i just enable it straight away??? cos im afraid it will burn out my system and all my gigabytes data.. LoL

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Added on February 5, 2012, 1:59 amyet, i never heard any news from other sandy bridge / UEFI users before?? CALLING TO ALL UEFI USERS PLEASE...

This post has been edited by soloinruds: Feb 5 2012, 02:06 AM

risking not?

I'm not sure about N45SF.. but for DV6, UEFI are use mainly for updates and diagnostic. Everything else it still use BIOS.

Btw with UEFI interface, you can use mouse to point and click.

what do i need to do before enable it?? do i need to recover my OS when i enable it? lol.. mm..

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Added on February 8, 2012, 12:40 ami just enabled it.. but no feeling hehehe..

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Added on February 9, 2012, 1:07 amone of the seller said that.. enable uefi is only for ssd usage wer u wont see any start up info during starting up your pc.. cos it will skip to windows start up he said.. special keys assigned for any shortcut and etc..

This post has been edited by soloinruds: Feb 9 2012, 01:07 AM

ssd should update to uefi?

what does UEFI do actually?

No bios start screen?
I have SSDs in all my machines. Still I see startup screen.

UEFI is the firmware interface. Are we talking about the same thing?

nutty.. have u use this uefi in ur ssd?

I don't see fast boot up.
It is just normal boot up on SSD.

yes. have enabled it since using HDD but i dont think there's any difference

Well yea I think most if not all Sandy Bridge machines have UEFI already. Its just that not all of the machines have a fancy GUI that has been promoted a lot. In its core, it supports UEFI. However, manufacturer decided to put old BIOS looks instead of developing a brand new UI for UEFI. Hope this clears up your doubts.

so that's mean our UEFI is useless for the time being??

This post has been edited by soloinruds: Feb 15 2012, 02:14 PM

It isn't useless..... Its just not in the form how its marketed. That is all. However, I do not have much experience with newer Sandy Bridge machines to justify whether current UEFI implementation speeds up the time taken to POST. A properly optimised UEFI can POST in just a second or two. I remember seeing a video of that years ago. Not sure how it is in reality today.

Maybe related to Asus Instant On?