Almost every motherboard shipping today has a UEFI chip rather than a BIOS chip (UEFI is a Windows 11 system requirement, in fact), but they both share the same core purpose: preparing the system to boot into the operating system.

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/516379/how-to-update-your-bios.html

Almost every motherboard shipping today has a UEFI chip rather than a BIOS chip (UEFI is a Windows 11 system requirement, in fact), but they both share the same core purpose: preparing the system to boot into the operating system.

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/516379/how-to-update-your-bios.html

If you were paranoid and wanted to skip that step, you could build and sign the shim yourself, and then enroll your signing CA in your UEFI.

Source: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/02/10/2322203/pc-cpu-shipments-see-steepest-decline-in-30-years?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

It’s best not to update your UEFI firmware unless there is something specific that the updated firmware offers that you need.

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/516379/how-to-update-your-bios.html

Many critical vulnerabilities affecting the security of UEFI systems have been discovered in the past few years.

Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/03/02/blacklotus-uefi-bootkit-windows/

Other motherboard vendors may arrange their UEFI menus differently.

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2014360/2014360.html