I too plan to upgrade to an P67 motherboard with UEFI, but I've suspended it for now just because of this annoying SLIC thing. Right now my bios is modded but upgrading means no more activation. As someone said, only gigabyte sells motherboards with old fashioned bios right now but there is no guarantees that futures updates will still be bios type. Please, if someone have a gigabyte hybrid EFI motherboard, try installing windows 7 64 bits on a gpt disk. Normally, windows 7 64 bits only install on a gpt hdd when it starts on a UEFI system. Note that the term "EFI" employed by gigabyte is PURE MARKETING. The content reveal that hybrid EFI is indeed a traditionnal bios with some 3TB hdd support. here is a content exemple of an hybrid *EFI* bios from gigabyte Code: CBROM32 V1.15 [Oct 3 2007 Release] (C)ASUSTeK Computer Inc. 2007 ******** p67aud4.f7 BIOS component ******** No. Item-Name Original-Size Compressed-Size Original-File-Name =============================================================================== 0. System BIOS 20000h(128.00K) 13734h(77.80K) p67aud4.BIN 1. XGROUP 0DA10h(54.52K) 09441h(37.06K) awardext.rom 2. ACPI Table 049F0h(18.48K) 01C7Ah(7.12K) ACPITBL.BIN 3. GROUP ROM[18] 04B10h(18.77K) 02A88h(10.63K) ggroup.bin 4. GROUP ROM[20] 09CF0h(39.23K) 04F8Bh(19.89K) ffgroup.bin 5. Other (40CA) 05820h(22.03K) 03850h(14.08K) y2group.bin 6. YGROUP 0D900h(54.25K) 071AAh(28.42K) awardeyt.rom 7. GROUP ROM[22] 0F630h(61.55K) 02409h(9.01K) tgroup.bin 8. GROUP ROM[23] 0F630h(61.55K) 0428Ah(16.63K) t1group.bin 9. GROUP ROM[24] 0F630h(61.55K) 046D8h(17.71K) t2group.bin 10. GROUP ROM[ 0] 076C0h(29.69K) 02993h(10.39K) _EN_CODE.BIN 11. PCI ROM[A] 15200h(84.50K) 0CA59h(50.59K) cptraid.bin 12. PCI ROM 04000h(16.00K) 02B53h(10.83K) cptahci.bin 13. PCI ROM[C] 10000h(64.00K) 095B5h(37.43K) rtegrom.lom 14. MINIT 16D80h(91.38K) 16DB6h(91.43K) smminit.bin 15. OEM0 034F6h(13.24K) 0265Bh(9.59K) SBF.BIN 16. LOGO 4B30Ch(300.76K) 1A988h(106.38K) ud4.bmp 17. OEM2 40000h(256.00K) 0896Ch(34.36K) mefwrhdr.BIN 18. GV3 03900h(14.25K) 0227Bh(8.62K) PPMINIT.ROM 19. OEM6 06400h(25.00K) 03DF7h(15.49K) GRAID.BIN 20. GROUP ROM[17] 80000h(512.00K) 1F45Bh(125.09K) M9123FW.BIN 21. OEM7 73000h(460.00K) 48B46h(290.82K) EXTBIOS.BIN (SP) NCPUCODE 0C801h(50.00K) 0C801h(50.00K) NCPUCODE.BIN ******** Memory Sizing Code ******** BootBlock 0000 (0.00K) BootExt 5849 (22.07K) Total compress code space = 1E4000h(1936.00K) Total compressed code size = 10DD74h(1079.36K) Remain compress code space = D628Ch(856.64K) ** Micro Code Information ** Update ID CPUID | Update ID CPUID | Update ID CPUID | Update ID CPUID ------------------+--------------------+--------------------+------------------ SLOT1 07 06A1 | SLOT1 26 06A2 | SLOT1 08 06A3 | SLOT1 07 06A5 SLOT1 28 06A6 | SLOT1 14 06A7 | WE ALL need solutions and tools to this problem because all manufacturers are moving to UEFI.
As the bios modders are reporting bricks with my UEFI Biostar Sandy Bridge motherboard I decided to try the Daz loader instead. Worked like a charm, still the best option and probably always will be.
Making a patched BIOS was pretty straight forward. Download PhoenixTool. (---darn cant post links yet---) Download Read Write Everything (---darn cant post links yet---) Original UEFI BIOS. First flash original BIOS and boot without loader. Extract PhoenixTool to its own folder and put the original BIOS there too. Load RW-Everything, click ACPI, click the three floppies (save all) and save it into the PhoenixTool folder. Start PhoenixTool, select original BIOS, select manufacturer (I picked ASUS because I have an ASUS board heh ), select ASUS SLIC, select ASUS SLP and select the RW report you just made. Click go and that should be it. Most new motherboards offer recovery options if flashing went wrong, so take the plunge and flash it. For windows to accept your OEM key you obviously need the certificate or simply use Daz his loader to install it. edit: you can find all the files needed on this forum with google