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

pretty cool. hopefully you can still tweak settings to overclock :)
But you gotta be quick to hit 'DEL' to enter the config if it boots in seconds!
 
I often wondered why PCs moved away from having some sort of EEPROM chip for an OS drive. Mobo could have the chip, it could be configuarble like a drive would be, and then the OS would be installed onto this 'fast' chip. I guess size and speed are the issues, as I can't see why this sort of system couldn't exists for a super fast OS ssd/flash drive, allowing a system to boot very swiftly.
Anyway mind is wandering again.
 
UEFI is more common than you think, All Apple MACs have UEFI, and IIRC most intel chipset based boards are now UEFI, expect they emulate a traditional BIOS for compatibility reasons.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
I often wondered why PCs moved away from having some sort of EEPROM chip for an OS drive. Mobo could have the chip, it could be configuarble like a drive would be, and then the OS would be installed onto this 'fast' chip. I guess size and speed are the issues, as I can't see why this sort of system couldn't exists for a super fast OS ssd/flash drive, allowing a system to boot very swiftly.
Anyway mind is wandering again.
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SSD's are pretty much an advanced EEPROM chip. The limiting factor is the interface, i.e SATA. The new OCZ SSD's that have been introduced recently demonstrate giving these drives a better interface and they will really shine.
 
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HazardO said:
UEFI is more common than you think, All Apple MACs have UEFI, and IIRC most intel chipset based boards are now UEFI, expect they emulate a traditional BIOS for compatibility reasons.
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That's right. To get MAC OS X working on a PC for example, you have to emulate EFI by patching or using a virtual machine with an EFI bios emulated.

And windows needs the BIOS for compatibility reasons to detect hardware. Hopefully when EFI becomes mainstream, this will be worked around.
 
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