https://forum.asrock.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Tue, 12 May 2026 18:10:43 +0000 Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:53:03 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 https://forum.asrock.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=113378 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_images/web_wiz_forums_black.png https://forum.asrock.com/ https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=113378&PID=200380&title=request-uefi-setting-restore-after-update#200380 Author: MihaMarkic
Subject: 113378
Posted: 12 Nov 2025 at 4:53pm

Hey, I'm not expecting you to implement it, though I wouldn't mind - just discussing.
Indeed, there is already a feature that would dump your settings to a file, the problem is that that file isn't human readable (or is it?) any only useful within same BIOS version. If that file was human readable, that would do for me those 90%. Now that I think about it, I wonder whether there are any specs about that file for one to extract relevant data.]]> Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:53:03 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=113378&PID=200380&title=request-uefi-setting-restore-after-update#200380 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=113378&PID=200379&title=request-uefi-setting-restore-after-update#200379 Author: Xaltar
Subject: 113378
Posted: 12 Nov 2025 at 4:19pm

I am just a moderator here, I don't speak for ASRock
I do know there used to be an export/import function in the UEFI but that was
a long time ago now and you couldn't import settings from a previous version.]]> Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:19:11 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=113378&PID=200379&title=request-uefi-setting-restore-after-update#200379 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=113378&PID=200378&title=request-uefi-setting-restore-after-update#200378 Author: MihaMarkic
Subject: 113378
Posted: 12 Nov 2025 at 4:11pm

As I said, even the export to a file would help a lot. And this step isn't really problematic nor difficult IMO.

So what now, back to taking photos of screens of various settings before doing the upgrade, I guess.]]> Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:11:10 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=113378&PID=200378&title=request-uefi-setting-restore-after-update#200378 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=113378&PID=200377&title=request-uefi-setting-restore-after-update#200377 Author: Xaltar
Subject: 113378
Posted: 12 Nov 2025 at 3:53pm

That is the issue, many of the settings are not simply value=on/off etc. They have
dependencies and these can be completely different from one version to the next.
Can it be done? Probably, but the amount of effort that would be required to ensure
a smooth import with every single new version would be non viable. You need to
understand that the enemy of any tech manufacturer is instability. Complexity is
absolutely not something you want to introduce. If even 1 in 1000 users were to
experience a catastrophic failure due to a mistake implementing loading saved
settings that could be thousands of support hours wasted over 100k boards.

It is easy to see solutions to things we would like when we only consider ourselves
but once you start to factor in the labor, potential for mistakes and subsequent
support labor needed to address the issue it becomes clear why manufacturers prefer
to keep things simple rather than add complexity and points of failure. Also there
is the issue that implementing a feature like this has no benefit to the manufacturer.
They will get nothing for the labor and time spent developing it. Perhaps as a
selling point for a new product line it may have some viability but if there is
even a single bad review on youtube about the feature that value is gone too.

As I said, this discussion has been had here before. I don't disagree that it would
be a nice feature to have, it's just not a practical one I can see any manufacturer
wasting time and resources on. ]]> Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:53:34 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=113378&PID=200377&title=request-uefi-setting-restore-after-update#200377 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=113378&PID=200375&title=request-uefi-setting-restore-after-update#200375 Author: MihaMarkic
Subject: 113378
Posted: 12 Nov 2025 at 3:20pm

Hey, so this feature would be more in an AMD domain then, fair enough.
About the difficulty - from my perspective (as a developer), the settings are a dictionary of key-value pairs. Of course values can be nested. I don't see a big deal of saving this dictionary to an XML text file with all the values and with attributes specifying when a value is a non default.

This step seems trivial to me and it'd solve 90% for me.

Once you have the settings in this format, there could be an option to reapply the non-default ones and a warning during process if the affected property has changed somehow. Honestly, I don't see this a big issue as well. At the end of the day it'd be the same as if user manually applied old non-default values, just in more automated way.]]> Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:20:56 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=113378&PID=200375&title=request-uefi-setting-restore-after-update#200375 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=113378&PID=200373&title=request-uefi-setting-restore-after-update#200373 Author: Xaltar
Subject: 113378
Posted: 12 Nov 2025 at 4:20am

The issue has been discussed here before and ASRock has probably had requests like
this many many times. It used to be possible in the days of the actual "BIOS" but
UEFI is infinitely more complex and intricate. From what I understand it is all
but impossible to "reload" settings from a previous UEFI version after an update.
The key issue is that motherboard manufacturers are not responsible for the core
of the UEFI, that comes from Intel and AMD. Each manufacturer adds a level of customization
to the UEFI but it is mostly just surface level tweaks like hiding or exposing
settings, voltage limit changes etc.

I am pretty sure this will never happen given the function would break every time
there is a new core UEFI update from AMD/intel (AGESA etc). ]]> Wed, 12 Nov 2025 04:20:11 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=113378&PID=200373&title=request-uefi-setting-restore-after-update#200373 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=113378&PID=200371&title=request-uefi-setting-restore-after-update#200371 Author: MihaMarkic
Subject: 113378
Posted: 12 Nov 2025 at 1:07am

Hi, here is my post.

Topic: Making easier to preserve BIOS settings during upgrade.
Body: For me the biggest pain when upgrading BIOS is to manually reapply the settings that I changed before - IOW, non default ones. Or better, the biggest pain is to list them all. Sure, there aren't many but nevertheless.
So, I understand it might be tricky for the upgrade process to re-apply those and that's fine. However, please give as at least a feature that would output all the non default ones to a file or at least to a screen. That way it'd be much easier to reapply them. Or such a feature already exist?]]> Wed, 12 Nov 2025 01:07:44 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=113378&PID=200371&title=request-uefi-setting-restore-after-update#200371