PPC junkie Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 i was comparing cheap mobo's and landed up on Foxconn RC4107MA it supports, DDR2, PCIe x16, TPM support and built in Ati x300. BIOS Features: FWH 4MB, ACPI 1.0b, APM 1.2, PnP 1.0a, SMBIOS 2.3, USB 2.0, WfM 2.0. Foxconn doesn't say whether it supports EFI or not, but it does have a feature called SuperBoot Reduces computer boot time by storing values during first boot and using them during future. seems EFI to me, can someone confirm this ?. Thanks in advance Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30500-bios-feature-fwh-4mb/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vitaliy Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 why "storing values during first boot and using them during future" seems like EFI for you??? it may have efi and may not.. in any case you won't be able to access it because there's standard bios emulation layer because currently no OS (except for macos) supports efi Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30500-bios-feature-fwh-4mb/#findComment-211375 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PPC junkie Posted October 18, 2006 Author Share Posted October 18, 2006 sort of, well OldWorld Mac's had 4MB ROM+PRAM chip and NewWorld's have 1 MB ROM's + very large EEPROM for OpenFirmware and a NVRAM chip. By the way, how can one find out motherboards supporting EFI ?. I've checked Intel's site, and i'm yet to find motherboards supporting EFI using their search engine. , is there a keyword to look for ?. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30500-bios-feature-fwh-4mb/#findComment-212097 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 only efi boards have efi (intel made) look at he macefix86 project Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30500-bios-feature-fwh-4mb/#findComment-214250 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaemonES Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 2 Kiko why? Foxconn is the official Intel partner, which produce MoBo's by Intel reference design. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30500-bios-feature-fwh-4mb/#findComment-214270 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PPC junkie Posted October 24, 2006 Author Share Posted October 24, 2006 only efi boards have efi (intel made) Seems non-intel chipset mobo's from Foxconn and Asus have 4MB EEPROM & Intel chipset ones have 8MB EEPROM bios. I haven't got any clue about ROM size of Intel boards. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=211754 So, this EFI and PXE (Pre-boot eXecution Env) are the same ?. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30500-bios-feature-fwh-4mb/#findComment-215343 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 umm EFI is the whole thing, PXE + DXE go hand in hand, pxe loads all the core functions of the boards and then the DXE takes over and loads drivers and apps Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30500-bios-feature-fwh-4mb/#findComment-215416 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PPC junkie Posted October 24, 2006 Author Share Posted October 24, 2006 ummm, seems Intel or ECS doesn't even have a generic Core 2 Duo motherboard supporting EFI, Intel PAT or EFI mobo info Intel® PAT consists of motherboard components, EFI* ‘bios’, and specialized software for both clients and servers. Currently the all they have is, but none of these have TPM support. Intel 946GZAB Intel D945PLNM Intel D915PDT Intel D865PCK ECS 945PL-A ECS 865G M8 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30500-bios-feature-fwh-4mb/#findComment-215425 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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