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

[crawlerbasher]

Something you lot might be interested in.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11430069

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.

 

[xrchz]

I asked about UEFI booting on the thread about my order See http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forum...-for-programming&p=13473&viewfull=1#post13473 for the reply.

 

[PCS]

Kayper beat you to it crawlerbasher: http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?1336-No-more-BIOS&highlight=bios