MSI EUFI Released

Author Hugo Jobling
Published 12th Dec 2008
MSI EUFI Released
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MSI has been promising Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) motherboards for some time. Finally that pledge has been fulfilled and owners of MSI's P45D3 Platinum and P45 Platinum are now able to download an MSI's ClickBIOS EFI for those motherboards.


The use of EFI also enables pre-OS applications to be loaded, without the need for a Splashtop Linux style secondary operating system. And, because an EFI is written using high level programming languages, it's likely that many more of these programs will become available from third parties, enabling even greater access to core system functionality without the need to load a full OS.

Benefits of EFI over the traditional BIOS we all know and love include vastly improved graphics (EFI actually has some), mouse-controlled interaction, multi-language capability and, of course, as already mentioned, pre-OS apps. For those interested, it's worth noting 32-bit OS support is non-existent. Vista x64 support was added in Service Pack 1, which everyone surely has by now, right? A fresh install is required, so bear in mind a SP1-preloaded disc is required.


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comment Stelph said on 12th December 2008

Can I ask for some more information on this or a review? Am quite interested to hear that Bios is being replaced but dont quite understand how its going to work in real life situat... more

comment Martin Daler said on 12th December 2008

I guess the malware writers will be relishing the opportunities?

comment needlegun said on 12th December 2008

Exactly what I was thinking. No doubt the 'inventors' will be saying that "it's safe and secure and malware writers can't..." and a week after the fir... more

comment Ironduke said on 14th December 2008

lol Pc'smoving to the apple system should make Hacky Toshes even easier:P

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