The chance of getting it wrong is unacceptably high when as codes vary by small amounts. Multiply this by several products and that's many, many BIOS'. As you can imagine, if you flash the wrong BIOS your card will not work. We have tested our Hybrid BIOS on a range of Intel and AMD motherboards ranging back 4-5 years and the Hybrid fall-back function works perfectly in all cases! That means even if you have older ASUS motherboards with no UEFI even, you can still install the Hybrid UEFI GPU BIOS and it will automatically fall-back to legacy mode!ģ) As you may know we don't just make one GTX 680, for example, in fact there are 12 different versions, which all have different BIOS'. We cannot guarantee other manufacturer boards will fall back correctly, causing no POST or no display output. We are currently testing our legacy and 1st Gen UEFI boards to see which are compatible and will fall back to booting from the legacy BIOS code until you update to a Win8/2nd Gen UEFI board. It must have a Win8 certified UEFI BIOS.Īll our GPU UEFI BIOS' are dual mode (hybrid). Only Gen 2 is compatible with Win8 Fast Boot and has to have the BIOS code re-written from the ground up, which is why even if your board has "UEFI" and is older than on the list it won't work with Win8's Fast Boot sorry. Intel X79 Series updated to Win8 BIOS (3xxx) Currently these are fully compatible with UEFI Fast Boot Mode: ASUS will only be qualifying it's own motherboards.
It's quite a complicated situation so please bare with me.ġ) Not every motherboard UEFI BIOS is compatible. We've just had a meeting today to get the latest info for you all.