UEFITool vs BIOSUtilities

UEFITool

UEFI firmware image viewer and editor (by LongSoft)

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BIOSUtilities

Various BIOS Utilities for Modding/Research (by platomav)

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UEFITool		BIOSUtilities
	Project
36	Mentions	3
4,057	Stars	727
0.9%	Growth	-
6.9	Activity	4.7
2 months ago	Latest Commit	8 days ago
C	Language	Python
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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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.

Auto-On-Time BIOS mod, different boot entry
1 project | /r/Dell | 22 Nov 2023

Open 1 E7250A24 -- 1 System BIOS with BIOS Guard vA.24.bin file with UEFITool
[GUIDE] ThinkPad BIOS: Reading, Patching, and Flashing
3 projects | /r/thinkpad | 30 Sep 2023

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.
Guide about how to check PCI-E Bifurcation support of any mainboard
3 projects | /r/Amd | 17 Jun 2023

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
1 project | /r/hackintosh | 17 May 2023
Need To Create My Own BIOS File
1 project | /r/thinkpad | 17 Feb 2023

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.
How to unlock BIOS (AMD models, not sure if it works with Intel)
3 projects | /r/maingear | 11 Feb 2023

UEFITool: https://github.com/LongSoft/UEFITool/releases
5800x3d appears faster after waking up then on cold boot.
2 projects | /r/Amd | 7 Feb 2023

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).
Entering hidden Advanced menu in bios v.2.06 on Acer Nitro 5 AN515-55
1 project | /r/AcerNitro | 13 Jan 2023

UEFITool
Google announces official Android support for RISC-V
4 projects | /r/opensource | 6 Jan 2023

How to view proprietary blobs on your system
Change BIOS Boot Logo
1 project | /r/DellXPS | 12 Dec 2022

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.

I bought a new pair of ram sticks for my victus and overclocked them to 4000mhz gear2!
1 project | /r/HPVictus | 20 Nov 2022

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)
I've totally erased my BIOS.
1 project | /r/buildapc | 11 Jul 2022

I actually found this tool, but can't tell if it is what you need: https://github.com/platomav/BIOSUtilities/tree/refactor
Full passthrough / GVT-d of 11th gen iGPU (Rocket Lake) to Windows 10 guest - logging my attempt.
6 projects | /r/VFIO | 22 Nov 2021

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.

gvt-linux

thinkpad-firmware-patches - Collection of ThinkPad UEFI patches.

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.

Universal-IFR-Extractor - Utility that can extract the internal forms represenation from both EFI and UEFI modules.

FanControl.Releases - This is the release repository for Fan Control, a highly customizable fan controlling software for Windows.

flashrom-DOS-port - Porting flashrom to DOS via DJGPP GCC cross-compiler