Sometimes I read that HP ProBook 4730s has UEFI and other times I hear it only has a BIOS. So which one does it have? As I understand it, UEFI is a replacement for BIOS, not an improvement nor addition.
AIDA64 somehow confirms in the System Drivers section that no UEFI is running.
UEFI Microsoft UEFI Driver UEFI.sys 10.0.10240.16384 Kernel Driver Stopped
I just enabled the UEFI Boot Mode
in UEFI, but there is no sys/firmware/efi
anyway, just acpi
,dmi
and memmap
. Here are some screenshots from my notebook.
Best Answer
The terminology is often overlooked (which it shouldn't really be by now, but there we go.) Often the UEFI is referred to as the BIOS, when really it should be called the UEFI or at least the system firmware.
According to this source, your machine has a UEFI firmware:
As pointed out by @MustafaAKTAŞ - this page with your firmware updates shows as UEFI.
You can also find out in your OS - In Windows:
msinfo32
in either yourSearch
bar in theStart Menu
, or in theRun
dialog - Win + R.BIOS Mode
in the list on the right:I can't test this, but apparently the following BASH script will tell you in Linux:
Effectively, if the file
/sys/firmware/efi
exists, you're in UEFI, otherwise in BIOS mode.Note that even with a UEFI BIOS, you can often run in
Legacy Mode
, which will likely report that you have BIOS rather than UEFI.