Comments on: Check if your PC uses UEFI or BIOS

By: Saša Živkovi?

Saša Živkovi? — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 14:14:00 +0000

I was having some problems with boot in WinX until I found out about this UEFI feature on new motherboards. After reading this post I found out that this was the problem since I know for a long time that my motherboard don’t have UEFI so I turned it off in Win X power settings. But here is my question:

If during installation WinX knew that my motherboard don’t have UEFI (this is what WinX says in a log file from this post, BIOS not UEFI) why did it install it in a first place?

I didn’t take any special install proc because I’d be aware of something like this since I’m not quite a novice to Windows OS.

Anyone ?

Thank you

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 13:23:00 +0000

In reply to Boomer. Run a command prompt as administrator and type bcdedit. The results will return a "path" value (amongst other things). If it ends with winload.exe you are currently running in BIOS (legacy) mode. If it ends with winload.efi or bootmgfw.efi then you are currently running in UEFI.

By: Boomer

Boomer — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 15:46:00 +0000

My panther folder doesn’t have setupact. It doesn’t have most of those items! I have hidden folders shown, so it isn’t that. I have setup.exe and UnattendGC folders – both of which are empty. Then I have two XML documents entitled diagerr and diagwrn. How can I find out whether UEFI or not? Also on System Information mine doesn’t have Bios Mode either. I am using Windows 7 Professional.

By: J Dsouza

J Dsouza — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 05:16:00 +0000

How to use UEFI if my PC has it instead of BIOS?

By: Rakchyas Shrestha

Rakchyas Shrestha — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 16:21:00 +0000

In reply to odiebugs.

For installing win 8.1, I converted MBR disk into GPT disk in win7 os and it asked to restart so i did n after that no display at all… It was nt starting…
Please help me. I think motherboard didnt support GPT…what shall i do now??