Does HP ProBook 4730s have UEFI or BIOS

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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.

Enabling UEFI mode
Warning about experimental feature

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:

HP Commercial Notebook PCs - Basic Input Output System (BIOS) Updates (EDK2 UEFI firmware)

  • ...
  • HP ProBook 4720s Notebook PC
  • HP ProBook 4730s Notebook PC
  • HP ProBook 4740s Notebook PC
  • ...

As pointed out by @MustafaAKTAŞ - this page with your firmware updates shows as UEFI.

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You can also find out in your OS - In Windows:

  1. Type msinfo32 in either your Search bar in the Start Menu, or in the Run dialog - Win + R.
  2. Look for BIOS Mode in the list on the right:

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I can't test this, but apparently the following BASH script will tell you in Linux:

#!/bin/bash
[ -d /sys/firmware/efi ] && echo UEFI || echo BIOS

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.

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