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    T61, bios or EFI?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by birdguy, May 10, 2007.

  1. birdguy

    birdguy Notebook Geek

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    anyone know if the T61 is using BIOS or EFI? Just curious. i read a while ago that with Santa Rosa, PCs are shifting to EFI.
     
    birdguy, May 10, 2007
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    zadillo Notebook Virtuoso

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    Good question. At least as I understood it, EFI was part of Santa Rosa, so it would seem like it would be part of it.
     
    zadillo, May 10, 2007
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    oodsfnsdfz Notebook Consultant

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    hmmm, really a good question. I know that Vista was supposed to support the EFI from day 1. I think today they say that EFI support in Vista will come later (SP1 ?) I guess it will be BIOS in the first version and EFI update later?
     
    oodsfnsdfz, May 10, 2007
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  4. Uodnelome

    Uodnelome Notebook Consultant

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    Santa Rosa supports EFI, but Vista does not take advantage of it (it still uses BIOS). As I understand it, few OS's do at this point. EFI has a compatibility layer for legacy support of BIOS, so even though a Santa Rosa machine supports it, it will most likely still be working with BIOS.

    EFI = Extensible Firmware Interface.
     
    Uodnelome, May 10, 2007
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    cvec7 Notebook Evangelist

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    Santa Rosa has Electronic Fuel Injection?! SWEET!! :laugh:
     
    cvec7, May 10, 2007
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