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P5Q Deluxe EFI Bios upgrade question

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m...@here.com

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Dec 20, 2011, 3:20:43 PM12/20/11

I have had my board for a couple years and didn't know there was an EFI
Bios upgrade for it. Has anyone upgraded their unit to efi? Is here any
benefit to upgrading or problems? Thank you.

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Friedrich Wuelfing

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Dec 20, 2011, 5:19:46 PM12/20/11

As far as I know you need a 64 Bit OS (Windows) for EFI.
It should work then.

Fritz

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m...@here.com

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Dec 20, 2011, 7:07:21 PM12/20/11

Thank you for the reply. I am using XP X64 but would like to know if it is
worth it to upgrade or "If it ain't broke don't fix it". I have heard that
EFI will allow larger hard drives.

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Anssi Saari

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Dec 22, 2011, 12:15:48 PM12/22/11

m...@here.com writes:

> Thank you for the reply. I am using XP X64 but would like to know if it is
> worth it to upgrade or "If it ain't broke don't fix it". I have heard that
> EFI will allow larger hard drives.

Larger bootable drives, true. Over 2 TiB drives will use the new GUID
partition table. Booting a disk like that with a BIOS is not a supported
configuration for Windows and even with EFI you need 64-bit Vista SP1 or
7 (or server 2008).

I don't think I'll be installing this EFI on my P5Q Deluxe. From the
comments on Asus forums it seems fairly buggy and not even close to
finished.

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