UEFI BIOS: what can't it do?

[videobruce]

I'm discovering (the hard way) this supposed new & improved BIOS deal isn't what's it cracked to be. Is the following a across the board list of what this can't do?

1. The initial boot screen, the one where you can clearly see all the attached drives, flashes by in a second preventing one from seeing anything in a blink of a eye? is there a way to pause this so I can see if all the drives are there without going into the BIOS like it use to be?

2. The 'home page' (or main page if you like) doesn't show the drives either, just the processor & memory which makes that mostly useless. You have to hunt around and go into a sub menu to find that out.

3. There is no ability to isolate SATA ports, it's either all or none which kinda makes that useless if one wants to hide one or two drives for whatever reason.

More questions when I come across more issues.

[directhex]

I'm discovering (the hard way) this supposed new & improved BIOS deal isn't what's it cracked to be. Is the following a across the board list of what this can't do?

1. The initial boot screen, the one where you can clearly see all the attached drives, flashes by in a second preventing one from seeing anything in a blink of a eye? is there a way to pause this so I can see if all the drives are there without going into the BIOS like it use to be?

Turn off fast boot. This is a feature, designed not to waste time on HW initialization which isn't needed at boot-time for most people.

2. The 'home page' (or main page if you like) doesn't show the drives either, just the processor & memory which makes that mostly useless. You have to hunt around and go into a sub menu to find that out.

This is an implementation-specific complaint.

3. There is no ability to isolate SATA ports, it's either all or none which kinda makes that useless if one wants to hide one or two drives for whatever reason.

More questions when I come across more issues.

This is an implementation-specific complaint.

[shaithis]

Don't install Windows 8 and then try and install Windows 7 dual boot afterwards

[mikerr]

Don't install Windows 8 and then try and install Windows 7 dual boot afterwards

Historically its always been better to install older OS first, then newer OS(es) for dual booting

[shaithis]

Historically its always been better to install older OS first, then newer OS(es) for dual booting

The difference being, a quick bootsector/loader repair and you are away...at least without UEFI.

After many hours of trying, I gave up and cleaned disks, installed 7 and then 8. Total and utter PITA.