Quick UEFI/Legacy question

HarvesterOfSorrow · Sep 23, 2016

I noticed that in msinfo32 my BIOS mode is legacy, could it be because my other GPU does only have legacy mode? See this image.
http://imgur.com/a/yIFPP

Shou Miko · Sep 23, 2016

A lot of partners released UEFI bios' for their card when they became available from AMD/Nvidia but be aware that if u update the bios to UEFI u can't get any display in Legacy machine...

P4-630 · Sep 23, 2016

No problem here with my UEFI bios card, using legacy mode.

Shou Miko · Sep 23, 2016

P4-630 said:
No problem here with my UEFI bios card, using legacy mode.

Yeh "Legacy mode" not same as Native system legacy :laugh:

HarvesterOfSorrow · Sep 23, 2016

I think it used to say, BIOS mode UEFI, but could it be on legacy because my sapphire hd 7970 only have legacy, gigabyte hd 7970 have uefi?

gupsterg · Sep 23, 2016

I have had Hawaii cards and Fiji cards with UEFI roms, used 1 at a time on an Asus P5K Premium motherboard LGA 775 with Q6600 without an issue. AMD ROMs are Hybrid ROMs ie have a legacy section with UEFI module, so you won't have an issue with card which has UEFI ROM on legacy system. The legacy sytem will just ignore the UEFI module in vbios.

To make Windows show UEFI as bios mode you need your Z97 Pro Gamer in "Pure UEFI" mode (ie CSM = OFF). Windows IIRC only changes between legacy / UEFI on install, so even if you change to CSM=Off it may not show UEFI bios mode in Windows system info tool. I have not had 2 GPUs in a system at one time, even if I had them, I thought my PSU was not up to the job, so can not comment if only the primary display card requires UEFI module and it is irrelevant if secondary GPU does not.

If you get black screen/issue after setting CSM off then remove the card with legacy ROM, if mobo boots then you'll know you need to update the ROM on that card.

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Quick UEFI/Legacy question

HarvesterOfSorrow

Shou Miko

P4-630

Shou Miko

HarvesterOfSorrow

gupsterg