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1. #AMERICAN MEGATRENDS BIOS UPDATE FOR WINDOWS 7 DRIVERS#
2. #AMERICAN MEGATRENDS BIOS UPDATE FOR WINDOWS 7 CODE#

UEFI based 64-bit drivers are capable of handling more than 17.2 billion GB RAM! A huge amount of memory Plenty for years to come. At the time of writing Windows limited GPT hard disk sizes to 256 TB UEFI-GPT (GUID Partition Table) format is capable of supporting up to 9.4 ZB (Zettabytes, that's about 10 Million TB!). In addition to improved start up times and the ability to resume from hibernation much better than before (thus improving response times), UEFI Firmware also supports larger hard disk sizes and memory (RAM) capacity.īIOS- MBR (Master Boot Record) is capable of supporting 4 primary partitions of up to 2 TB (Terra-byte), providing a maximum of 8 TB

#AMERICAN MEGATRENDS BIOS UPDATE FOR WINDOWS 7 CODE#

Cryptography added to UEFI protects your machine's pre-boot process against Bootkit attacks.Ĭryptography is the underlying method of encrypting data (stored as in the case of UEFI files or transmitted as in the case of https traffic when purchasing items online) so cyber criminals cannot access this data and steal it, or infect it with malware.Ī Bootkit attack is a BIOS-level malware attack (AKA Persistent BIOS attack) where the perpetrator re-formats your BIOS data with malicious code to gain access to your machine.Įxamples include the 'Stoned' bootkit which affects Windows machines, and the Thunderstrike Mac Bootkit, unveiled as the first ever known Apple OS X Firmware bootkit by ethical hackers. The main benefits of UEFI Firmware in my opinion are security and performance.

UEFI completes these tasks much more quickly and more thoroughly than the old BIOS, before handing over control to the Operating System. Next, we look at some benefits offered by UEFI Firmware in more detail.