UEFITool
UEFI firmware image viewer and editor (by LongSoft)
BIOSUtilities
Collection of various BIOS/UEFI-related utilities which aid in research and/or modding purposes. (by platomav)
| UEFITool | BIOSUtilities | |
|---|---|---|
| 36 | 3 | |
| 4,486 | 825 | |
| 1.4% | - | |
| 4.4 | 6.8 | |
| 2 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
| C | Python | |
| BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
UEFITool
Posts with mentions or reviews of UEFITool.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-30.
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Auto-On-Time BIOS mod, different boot entry
Open 1 E7250A24 -- 1 System BIOS with BIOS Guard vA.24.bin file with UEFITool
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[GUIDE] ThinkPad BIOS: Reading, Patching, and Flashing
UEFIPatch from LongSoft's GitHub A UEFI patchtool built on the older UEFITool engine. UEFITool is not needed for this patch, only the UEFIPatch applcation.
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Guide about how to check PCI-E Bifurcation support of any mainboard
Download UEFITool from https://github.com/LongSoft/UEFITool/releases for example UEFITool_NE_A66_win32.zip is hidden behind the show all assets button
- Help with BIOS Patching Thinkpad T480s
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Need To Create My Own BIOS File
There's a discussion here about this being done successfully on a ThinkPad T460 with a SPI programmer and UEFITool. The same method should apply to the T460p.
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How to unlock BIOS (AMD models, not sure if it works with Intel)
UEFITool: https://github.com/LongSoft/UEFITool/releases
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5800x3d appears faster after waking up then on cold boot.
If HPET is not an option in firmware, then it is disabled (0x00) and hidden from you. Which in practice is bad. The only option for users in this case is to download your firmware from the vendor, use this tool to locate the register and set the value with this tool to enabled (0x01).
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Entering hidden Advanced menu in bios v.2.06 on Acer Nitro 5 AN515-55
UEFITool
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Google announces official Android support for RISC-V
How to view proprietary blobs on your system
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Change BIOS Boot Logo
I have been a long ThinkPad user and have bought an XPS 13 for the first time. I changed my boot logo on my machines before using this tool following this guide.
BIOSUtilities
Posts with mentions or reviews of BIOSUtilities.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-22.
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I bought a new pair of ram sticks for my victus and overclocked them to 4000mhz gear2!
I cant pass the step 2 https://github.com/platomav/BIOSUtilities installed python and after opened Dell_PFS_Extract.py but its crashing nothing happening . is your model intel based ? I have 6800h version can u upload if the mobo is same (8a22)
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I've totally erased my BIOS.
I actually found this tool, but can't tell if it is what you need: https://github.com/platomav/BIOSUtilities/tree/refactor
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Full passthrough / GVT-d of 11th gen iGPU (Rocket Lake) to Windows 10 guest - logging my attempt.
The Dell extraction script here seemingly works without errors but UEFITool has trouble with the result (image may be corrupted).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing UEFITool and BIOSUtilities you can also consider the following projects:
Universal-IFR-Extractor - Utility that can extract the internal forms represenation from both EFI and UEFI modules.
edk2 - EDK II
grub-mod-setup_var - A modified grub allowing tweaking hidden BIOS settings.
i915ovmfPkg - VBIOS for Intel GPU Passthrough
coreboot - Mirror of https://review.coreboot.org/coreboot.git. We don't handle Pull Requests.
QEMU - Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.
thinkpad-firmware-patches - Collection of ThinkPad UEFI patches.
gvt-linux
Universal-IFR-Extractor - Utility that can extract the internal forms represenation from both EFI and UEFI modules.
Smokeless_UMAF
FanControl.Releases - This is the release repository for Fan Control, a highly customizable fan controlling software for Windows.
UEFITool vs Universal-IFR-Extractor
BIOSUtilities vs edk2
UEFITool vs grub-mod-setup_var
BIOSUtilities vs i915ovmfPkg
UEFITool vs coreboot
BIOSUtilities vs QEMU
UEFITool vs thinkpad-firmware-patches
BIOSUtilities vs gvt-linux
UEFITool vs Universal-IFR-Extractor
UEFITool vs Smokeless_UMAF
UEFITool vs gvt-linux
UEFITool vs FanControl.Releases