After hearing about Microsoft’s plans to not support the EFI BIOS in Windows Vista until the Server version (though others say this is only for 32-bit only PCs). I got to wondering what version BIOS my system had and if it is EFI. Saddly my 2005 ASUS A8N-E is not EFI. In fact, it is using the AwardBIOS 6.00PG. A BIOS that, judging from the copyright dates, hasn’t seen a major update since 2002 (the time when XP hit stores). This then made me wonder, why ASUS is still using this aging BIOS.

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