Question about UEFI VBIOS

[lixxbox]

Attention: Google translator ;-)

Hi,

I stumbled across the following forum entry on the ASUS forums. http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthrea...TX-680-Series-Graphics-Cards&country=&status=
This is about an UEFI VBIOS update for the GPU (in this case gtx 680), instead of a legacy VBIOS. On Windows 8 Machines it is there to support Fast Boot GOP.

Additional updates for ASUS cards are to follow. (660ti,670, ...) I've read that UEFI bios for other manufacturers gpus (e.g. MSI) already exist.

Does it bring us any benefits to install these UEFI updates? Or even any drawbacks? Would you even discourage from updating?

I ask because I - like some others - have problems with my 660ti OC Edition with waking up from sleep. I get a black screen every time. Sleep/wake worked great until I installed my Nvidia crad.
My hope was the update to OSX 10.8.3 would help. But it has not improved.
Now I hope updating to UEFI bios can improve my situation.

Greetings lixxbox

 

[swot]

Ya any idea if this will improve anything (or at least not break anything)? I see it in the Asus support page but they claim ASUS MB compatibility only.

 

[PJALM]

OS X dosn't really use UEFI/GOP graphics yet so you don't really gain anything, same for UEFI booting.

 

[alexhaj]

So has anyone tried this yet? I found a patch that allows updating the vbios on your asus card using a non-asus motherboard.

http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthrea...ol-for-GTX-600-series-cards!&country=&status=

I am considering doing this as I dual boot but am worried as they claim it will brick your card if your motherboard doesn't support uefi gop. So my question then becomes does a gigabyte h77n-wifi support uefi gop? Any help is much appreciated.