Could I have some advice please - Is this board an EFI board?

[sev1972]

Hi all,

 

After trying to install Leopard Retail with no success on an Asus p5Q deluxe I have been looking at Gigabyte P35/45 mainboards.

 

I started to look at micro ATX (as i've never had anything more than a wireless card and a graphics card!) and stumbled across the Intel DQ45CB

 

I dowloaded the manual and the bios section of the summary it states:

 

BIOS • Intel® Platform Innovation Framework for EFI

• 32 Mbit symmetrical flash memory device

• Support for SMBIOS

• Intel® Rapid BIOS Boot

• Intel® Express BIOS Update

Power Management • Support for Advanced Configuration

 

Now, you access the bios through the normal F2 at post, so is this EFI BIOS or just open to development for EFI?

 

I'm just trying to assess the suitability for an osX86 build, and working on the fact that if Intel manufacture the boards for apple hopefully it would make them resonably friendly to an OS X86 installation.

 

Many thanks in advance for your thoughts.