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    Info about the motherboard/chipset in G53SV/G73SV

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by TuxDude, Jan 12, 2011.

  1. TuxDude

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    Any idea about the chipset which these laptops would be using - the ones based on Sandy Bridge ? It should be one of HM65 or HM67 I guess... The reason I'm asking is because HM67 does support RAID....

    Also do these come with UEFI or just plain old BIOS ?

    Also any idea about when the G53SW would be available for pre-order ?
     
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    I also would like to know the answers to those questions.

    By the way, the models end with "SW" instead of "SV." I suggest that you change this thread's title (if you can) so more people can find this thread and answer the questions.

    EDIT: The previous G53Jw models supported limited UEFI, so I assume that the newer models will too. The G53Jw doesn't have any of the advanced UEFI features, such as the UEFI shell--only plain UEFI booting.
     
    chenxiaolong, Jan 13, 2011
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    Yup, the G73JH also has UEFI for large disk support and such - no pretty options.

    As for the chipset ... well, even if it does support raid, it may not be enabled.
     
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    Thanks for pointing that out - title edited....

    The reason I asked about UEFI is because I read a detailed description about the new Sandy Bridge architecture and the changes made and came across Intel mandating the use of UEFI to boot the board and manage, rather than a BIOS.... If so it would be nice :)

    Not related to the topic, but since I'm a linux fan was thinking that, in Linux without a proper UEFI supported boot loader like Grub2, distros using the legacy Grub boot loader might have issues....
     
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    Meh. It's linux, not OSX - even if it wasn't supported out of the box, there'll be a timely fix up, by someone.
     
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    Boot loader support is better to have it properly from the Distro rather than doing it manually... I tell this because, the differences between Grub legacy and Grub2 is pretty large and even the config files and way to configure boot entries differ vastly... This could affect further kernel updates by the package manager and may be have even other side-effects too...

    And currently the only distro officially supporting the Grub2 bootloader is Ubuntu and its variants....
     
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    Fedora somehow also supports UEFI with Grub Legacy.
     
    chenxiaolong, Jan 14, 2011
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