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    UEFI-Change to 'Bios' will make for PCs that boot in seconds

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by spradhan01, Oct 3, 2010.

  1. spradhan01

    spradhan01 Notebook Virtuoso

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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.

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    UEFI To Start Replacing PC BIOS by 2011
     
    spradhan01, Oct 3, 2010
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    Alex, Oct 3, 2010
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