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KFA2 780TI VBios.... huh?

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Hi all, so I'm a lill confused.

I have a KFA2 780 TI, and when I boot, I get the following image before bios:

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after a lill googling about, I hear that I need to find some vBios drivers? and that gpu manufacturers, for some crazy reason, don't put out to the public?.... ??

this message usually adds around 3 seconds to my boot up time and I am hitting around 20 seconds in fast boot :(
 
I had this with my SSD, which at the time was in the wrong port, I moved it to the correct port and that message went away, so I am thinking this GPU isn't being recognised as UEFI compliant.

here's a video with fast boot, same motherboard but different GPU, notice the lack of GPU VGA bios before post..... infact notice the lack of post period:


This is what I'm trying to achieve, but the vbios keeps appearing before post.
 
sadly didn't do anything to my uefi support although I have a higher version number now, it made no difference.

I'm wondering if it's because when I installed windows, I installed on SSD when it was in a non uefi port? would that be a problem?
 
where have you been for the last 2 months? awesome thanks dude :D I needed this!

can I change the text display time to 0 also? or should I leave as is?

also, I can't use nibitor, it doesn't recognise kfa2 as a vendor, the integrity check comes as red, and I get a load of errors when I open my bios into it... I tried going to the site but it's a dummy site?
 
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hehe well we are about to be educated :D

UEFI is OS controlled bios in a nutshell, UEFI mode is only fully enabled if you have windows installed as a uefi partition, and to do that you have to do custom install. if you installed it with the standard practice, or if you bought it with stock install, it will be legacy bios and you won't get UEFI boot.

you can check if you have Legacy or UEFI by searching for MSINFO32 in start and then in system summary, you'll see "Boot mode" which will say legacy or UEFI, if it doesn't say uefi, you are not running in uefi mode.

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to run under uefi, you need to reinstall windows, and:

- when you choose basic setup or custom install, choose custom install
- you'll be shown the partitions available, you need to press "new", windows will then give you the following partitions:

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the partitions have to be in this order or it won't work, note that you have to have primary partition selected (in the above example it looks like the user created a second partition also (below primary), you don't need to do this.
Also note that if you get a warning saying windows can't be installed, ignore it, as long as you can press next, you are good to go.

once it's done that, windows needs to install and reboot a few times, but only at the end of the setup process will it boot straight to windows logo

hope this helps anyone :)
 
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ceaton88 said:
I'm confused. When you say the partitions have to be in that order what do you mean?
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Apparently you can move the order, (by deleting and manually creating), I'm not entirely sure on that as I read it in a tutorial

ceaton88 said:
Referring to the screenshot above, not all of us will have a Recovery partition, the Primary partition is the only partition Windows would be able to install on, the Unallocated space is available space for another partition to be created.
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The operating system creates all the partitions automatically for you when you click "new" literally all of them

ceaton88 said:
What are the benefits of UEFI mode? To get rid of this VGA BIOS?
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much faster boot time is the biggest advantage, I clocked in 11 seconds, but think I can get faster. from wikipedia


The interface defined by the EFI specification includes data tables that contain platform information, and boot and runtime services that are available to the OS loader and OS. UEFI firmware provides several technical advantages over a traditional BIOS system:[11]

ability toz boot from large disks (over 2 TB) with a GUID Partition Table (GPT)[12][13]
CPU-independent architecture[12]
CPU-independent drivers[12]
flexible pre-OS environment, including network capability
modular design
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