Most of you may be more familiar with the traditional BIOS (Basic Input Output System) than UEFI BIOS, because the BIOS setup utility interface is more frequently seen when you set BIOS password to your PC or boot your computer from a CD drive or USB device,etc. However, due to the shortcomings of BIOS, the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is developed and it will replace the traditional BIOS in the future. Therefore, there is a necessity to learn the advantages of UEFI. And here is the introductions.
10 Advantages of UEFI BIOS:
1. The design is modular. UEFI is logically divided into two parts which are hardware control and OS software management.
2. Good error correction feature.
3. High resolution color graphic environment, which can support the application of mouse.
4. The compatibility of it is great, which includes processor compatibility, disk device compatibility, etc. For instance, UEFI supports boot from large disk by a GUID Partition Table (GPT).
5. Powerful networking capability. This allows other users to make reliable remote fault diagnosis for your computer host without entering the operating system.
6. Apply new operating method of Driver/Protocol to replace the previous ways of interruption and hardware port operation.
7. Use C programming language to encode and use dynamic link to construct the system.
8. UEFI initialization module and DXE (Driver Execution Environment) are integrated into a read only memory (ROM), which enables UEFI to support all devices well.
9. The UEFI processor mode can be either 32-bit or 64-bit, while the processor mode of traditional BIOS is limited to 16-bit processor mode and 1 MB addressable space.
10. Use Flat mode directly and don’t support x86 mode. Its output isn’t the binary code, but the Removable Binary Drivers.
In brief, apart from the ten advantages described above, UEFI BIOS may have other merits waiting for your discovery. Moreover, compared with the traditional BIOS, the UEFI with so many strengths, will undoubtedly bring a better user experience to computer greenhands as well as masters.
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