Instructor: In this lesson,
we're going to take a look at the EUFI
and see how we can configure our EUFI settings.
Now, first on your motherboard,
you have to figure out how you're going to load into the EUFI.
On my system, I had to press the delete key while rebooting,
and that brings me into the EUFI,
which is a graphical user interface
for me to be able to see information
and configure different settings.
Now I'm not going to go through every single possible option
in my EUFI, because that would take us a really long time,
but I just wanted to show you some highlights
and you could explore this on your own with your own system.
Now, the first thing we're going to see is
when we load into the EUFI,
we get this graphical display with six different buttons
called Setting, Overclocking Settings, M-Flash, OC profile,
Hardware Monitor, and Board Explorer.
Under Settings,
this will allow us to set up different configurations
for our particular system using this EUFI,
whereas overclocking
is going to be used to be able to speed up our processor
and make it work harder,
which will allow our system to go faster,
but it'll produce a lot more heat
and it can reduce the life of your processor.
The M-Flash is how this particular motherboard
allows you to flash my EUFI with the latest version
to get security updates, bug fixes,
and upgrades that include new features.
Over on the right, we see OC Profile,
and this allows me to save and load BIOS settings
so I can make different configurations or different profiles
based on different needs from my particular system.
The hardware monitor will allow us to see
all the different pieces of hardware,
including the temperatures inside my system
and the fan speed and how fast it's going,
and then finally we have the Board Explorer,
which will gimme a visual representation of my motherboard,
and I can hover over it and look at different pieces
and see what is connected to this particular system.
We're going to start out by looking at the settings.
Now, when we go into the settings,
this works a lot like the standard BIOS
that you've seen before.
If we go up here to System Status,
the first thing we're going to see is our system date and time,
and then we can reset those with the proper date and time
if we're changing time zones
or we need to set a different date or time on our system.
Underneath that, you'll see the next section
has all of my different storage devices.
This includes my six SATA ports
and my two M2 slots on this motherboard.
You could see under SATA Port 4,
I have an internal hard drive connected,
which is a Western Digital Corporation drive
that is a four terabyte drive in size.
And then under the M2 slot two,
you could see I also have an SSD or solid state device
from Samsung, and this is a two terabyte 980 PRO model.
As we continue down the screen,
you will see the system information,
including my CPU's ID or micro code,
the BIOS version, and the BIOS build date,
which is actually referring to the EUFI
in this particular case,
and then the physical memory that I have installed,
in this case, it is 32 gigabytes,
the cache size of my processor, which is four megabytes,
and the L3 cache size of my processor,
which is 32 megabytes.
Next, we're going to go back to the main menu
and we're going to go down to the Advanced tab.
Under the Advanced tab,
we have lots of different settings,
include PCI express or PCIe subsystem settings.
Our a ACPI, which is our power settings,
our integrated peripherals,
our USB configuration, power management setup,
Windows OS configuration, wake up event setup,
secure erase for our drives,
and our NVMe SSD self test.
In addition to that, we also have some overclocking
and graphic driver health options towards the bottom.
The one we're going to look at here
is going to be our USB configuration.
Now, when you look at USB configuration,
this will depend on your system
of what type of configurations you can do.
On this system,
there's really not a lot of different configurations.
And in fact, there really is only three.
The first one is the XHCI Handoff,
the second one is Legacy USB Support,
and the third one is Enhanced Mouse Pointer Speed.
Now this mouse pointer speed that we're talking about
is set at one right now, and this is a value from one to 20.
With a value of one, this is the slowest pointer speed
and it's talking about the pointer speed
inside of this particular EUFI interface.
Now on my system,
a one is actually pretty fast with the mouse I have
and I can move back and forth pretty comfortably.
If I go any faster than this,
it makes it really hard for me
to click on the things I need to,
and therefore, I'm going to leave this at one,
but if I wanted to change it,
I could simply arrow down or click on it
and then type in the number I wanted such as 10,
or going back to one.
Next, we have this USB Legacy Support,
and this is enabled,
which allows us to have our USB 3 ports operate as a USB 2
or a USB 1 port, if needed to support older configurations
and older hardware.
Now, the big problem with doing this
is that if you have a USB 1 or USB 2 device
plugged into a USB 3 port,
everything else connected to that single port
will all operate at the lower and slower speed
of that legacy device.
In my case, I'm going to leave this enabled
because I do have some older peripherals
like mice and keyboards
that I like to use on my systems.
And so I'm going to have to have legacy USB support turned on
to allow those to operate.
Next we're going to go back a menu
and we're going to go up to integrated peripherals.
Now on this particular motherboard,
I have a lot of integrated peripherals,
including a wireless adapter or wifi card
that's built into my motherboard.
If I wanted to turn off that wifi capability,
I could scroll down to the onboard wifi module control,
turn it to disabled,
and at that point, my wifi will no longer work.
Now you may be wondering, why would you want to do this?
Well, in some organizations,
they don't allow wireless devices
because wifi is less secure than wired network connections.
And in those organizations you'd want to disable this
and then you'd be able to go in
and set a password on this BIOS
to ensure nobody could turn it back on.
In my case, I actually use that wireless card
so I'm going to go back and enable it.
The next thing you'll see
is this section called SATA Configuration.
And you'll notice that we have AHCI mode enabled,
which is the default mode we're going to use for SATA.
And underneath it, we have six different SATA ports
and each one can be configured as disabled or enabled
for hot plugging.
For example, right now, my hard drive
is sitting on SATA port 4,
and I have this mode set to disabled.
What this means is that I can't unplug the hard drive
or plug a new one in while the computer is powered on.
So this SATA is going to operate like a legacy storage device.
And that tends to be a little bit more secure
and provide you with a little bit better performance.
If you enabled hot plug or hot-pluggable capability
on any of these SATA ports,
you could actually plug in a SATA hard drive,
just like you would a USB external hard drive
and the operating system would be able to identify it
and use it
without you having to shut down your computer first.
Again,
this is something you're going to have to decide for yourself,
what kind of settings you want based on your use case.
Another setting you see is at the bottom,
the HD Audio Controller.
Now here we can enable or disable it.
And in our case, we have it enabled.
On this motherboard,
we have an integrated high definition, audio controller
and audio panel output,
and I have my speakers hooked up to that and I'm using this.
But if I put in a dedicated expansion card for audio,
I would want to disable this audio configuration
from the motherboard
so that way I could force my system
to use the one on the expansion card instead
that gives me a higher quality of audio.
All right, let's go back a menu.
And then we're going to go down here
to where it says AMD overclocking
so you could take a look at this.
Now they are going to give you a warning here,
just like I did before
that if you overclock your processor,
you're going to be creating additional heat
and it could actually void the warranty on your processor
and cause it to prematurely fail.
So it is something dangerous to do,
and you really should know what you're doing
if you're going to be overclocking your system.
If you accept that, it'll bring you in
and allow you to start doing overclocking of the motherboard
as well as your processor.
The first menu we have here is Manual CPU Overclocking.
And if I go in here,
you could see it's based on frequency and voltage.
Here, I could set the frequency for that core.
Now, if you notice in the top-left corner,
my current frequency is 3.40 gigahertz,
because that is the default speed of my processor.
If I wanted to set that higher,
I can increase this frequency,
and maybe I can go to 3.5 gigahertz,
which would give me 100 megahertz faster of speed,
but again, I am using additional power
and I'm using additional cooling
to try to cool down that processor and accommodate that.
In addition to this,
you can also set your CPU voltage
and this voltage would say how much power
you're giving to the CPU.
And by giving it more power,
you can get additional performance.
I'm going to back out of there
because I don't want to overclock my unit.
And the next one you could see here is DDR,
and this refers to our memory.
So again, we can actually overclock our memory
on this particular system.
My memory is designed for 2133 megahertz,
but I can increase that maybe up to 2,400 megahertz
and try to push it harder.
If you do this,
you could again void your warranty on your memory
and you could have premature failure of your memory
because you're overclocking it
and it's not designed to go that fast.
But this is something that some gamers like to do,
they will try to overclock their computers,
overclock their components,
overclock their bus speed,
and try to get additional performance out of it.
Personally, I'm not a big fan of overclocking.
I find that it doesn't lead to a stable system
and you can have a lot more errors down the road.
So I tend to stay out of those settings.
Let's go ahead and go back,
and we'll go back one more time
and we'll go back again and we'll go back one more time.
And this gets us back to our main menu.
Let's go down and take a look at boot.
Now here, when we boot up,
we have a couple of different options
such as, do we want to have the MSI logo appear
when we boot up the system
as part of the power-on self test?
Currently, this is set to enable.
And if you didn't want to see the logo,
you could set that to disable.
Another option you have
is the Num Lock status on your keyboard.
When you turn on your computer,
do you want your Num Lock to be on or off?
If you have a full size keyboard,
you probably want it to be on
because that way you can use the numbers right away.
If you don't have a full size keyboard
and your number pad
is actually part of your regular keyboard
where the letter keys are,
you're going to want to have this disabled.
So that way you could type the letters
instead of the numbers when you first turn on your computer.
As we continue down, you'll see POST Beep.
Now POST Beep is, are we going to allow beeping
during the power-on self test?
Right now, this is disabled
and that's the default on the system.
If I wanted to make sure I could hear those POSTS
and I want to hear a successful beep
every time the computer boots up,
I can enable that setting instead of leaving it disabled.
In my case, I'm going to leave it disabled
cause I don't want to hear that beeping
every time I turn on the computer.
And then the most important part
is what we see at the bottom,
which is our Fixed Boot Order Priorities.
Now, this is our list from one to seven
of how we're going to boot up the system.
Right now, this system is going to be booted up
using the hard drive first.
Then it's going to look for a CD or DVD.
Now on my system, there is no CD or DVD drive
so it's kind of silly to have that as a boot option.
So I'm going to go in here,
and I'm actually going to take that and disable that.
Our next priority is listed as a USB hard drive.
But again, for security reasons,
I don't want to boot from a USB hard drive
so I'm going to disable that.
The next one we have is a USB CD or DVD.
And again, I don't want to do that for security reasons
so I'm going to disable it.
The fifth one is a USB Key,
which stands for a USB flash drive or USB thumb drive.
And again, for security purposes,
I'm going to go ahead and disable that.
The next one we have is a USB floppy drive.
And again, I'm going to disable that.
And then finally we have this network option
and I'm going to disable that.
Now, as I scroll up,
if I wanted the network option,
I can go here and make that my number two priority
at this point and set it there.
So now my system is going to first look for a hard disk drive
or a solid state drive.
If it finds that it's going to boot from there
and if it doesn't, it's going to move to the network.
If it doesn't find either of those two options,
it's not going to boot
and it's just going to gimme an error saying,
"I can't find an operating system to boot
because I don't know any devices
that have an operating system on it.
Cuz there wasn't one on the hard drive
and there wasn't one on the network."
Next we're going to go back and we're going to look at Security.
Now under Security, we have a couple of options here.
The first one is our administrator password
and this is the password to control access
to the EUFI environment.
On this system,
I don't have a password set yet
because I just built this computer.
But if I wanted to set a password,
I would simply go into here
and I would then type in the password that I want to use,
and I'm going to type it in again to confirm it.
And now you'll see that I've installed that password.
Now that I have the EUFI password installed,
I also have the option to set a user password
that would give access to the system during boot.
In my case, I'm going to leave that off
because this computer's going to be used by multiple people
and I don't feel that it's good practice
to set a user password
when multiple people have access to the computer.
Another option that this system has
is the ability to make what's called a U-Key.
Now the U-Key is essentially going to be a USB flash drive
that's going to be coded with a digital certificate.
To do this, I would insert a USB flash drive into my system.
I would click on the Make U-Key option
and then it would create this digital certificate
on the USB key,
and anytime I boot up the system,
I would have to have that USB drive installed
in the back of my system,
otherwise it won't boot.
This is much more secure than a password
because now it is something physical that you have.
And it's another great way
to add more security to your system
if you're worried about that.
Another option we have is Trusted Computing.
Inside of Trusted Computing,
we can set up things for our TPM or Trusted Platform Module.
You'll notice on this system,
we do have a TPM 2.0 device installed
as part of our processor
and it was made by AMD because I am using an AMD processor
in this system.
From this area of the menu,
I can go and I can enable or disable the TPM
and do other operations to the TPM as I need to.
Let's go back.
And the last area we have
is what's called Chassis Intrusion Configuration.
Now what this is, is it's actually a sensor on your case.
And if you open up the case, this is called the chassis,
then there's going to be a message display
the next time you boot up the system saying,
"Warning: Somebody has opened your chassis."
Again, this is a security precaution
because maybe somebody in your office opened up the system
and put in something into that system
that you wouldn't want in there,
like a recording device,
or they put in a new internal cellular card or wireless card
and then are transmitting data in and out of that PC.
This is a good reason
for using a chassis intrusion detection alarm.
So we'll go ahead and enable that
because that is a good practice,
and that way we know
anytime somebody has messed with the inside of our case.
Next we're going to go back
and we're going to go back one more time,
and at the main menu,
we can now save our settings and then exit.
At this point, we are going to save our changes
and I'm not going to actually leave the area yet
because I want to show you some other things.
Otherwise I could save changes and reboot my system
and it would then boot up into my operating system.
Now, the other thing I wanted to show you
is back here on the main screen,
we have the thing called the hardware monitor.
From here,
we could see a lot of information about our system,
specifically in regards to temperature and cooling
and being able to control our fans.
As you can see in the upper right corner,
you can see that this system has a CPU fan
and it has six case fans.
It also has the ability on this motherboard
to support liquid cooling,
which is why you see PUMP 1.
But on this system I haven't installed liquid cooling,
which is why the pump is running at zero RPMs
because there is no pump.
As you can see though,
the CPU is running at a nice, cool rate.
And so we are only running at about 700 to 750 RPMs
right now.
The case itself is also pretty cool right now
because we're not putting a lot of load on it.
And so most of my case fans
are operating right around 950 to 1000 RPMs.
If I was doing a lot of hard work with this system,
the temperature would be increasing
and those fans would actually be spinning faster
to cool down this entire system.
Now, in addition to having the numbers at the top,
we could also see a graph,
and here we could see
what this CPU fan has been doing over time.
When I first started up the computer,
it was actually running pretty low
and now it's been going up, up, up over time
as the computer's running longer.
And then in the middle section,
we have a nice graphical depiction of those fans
being able to show us exactly what we're looking at
and how they're operating over time.
Towards the bottom,
you'll see a set of six temperatures
that tells us information about our processor,
our system, and the chipset on the motherboard
as well as some of our expansion slots.
So you can see here that my CPU core, which is my processor,
is currently running at about 41 Celsius
or 105 degrees Fahrenheit.
The system board overall
is running at about 31 degrees Celsius
or 86 degrees Fahrenheit.
As we move over,
we see our chipset is operating at 38 degrees Celsius
or 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
The processor socket
is operating at about 32 degrees Celsius
or 89 degrees Fahrenheit
and then our graphical expansion card
in PCI express X16 slot number one
is operating at 32 degrees Celsius or 89 degrees Fahrenheit.
And so all of these
are well within the ranges that I would expect
because I'm not working the system very hard.
If these numbers started getting above 120 or so,
I would start to get a little concerned,
and we want to make sure our fans are all working properly
to keep our temperature below 120 degrees Fahrenheit
or even cooler than that.
The last thing you could see at the bottom
is actually the amount of voltage
that each of these different system components are getting
and using over time.
So we can see that our CPU core
is currently using 1.3 volts,
our CPU northbridge and system-on-a-chip,
which controls access from the processor socket,
out to the memory,
is actually operating at 0.97 volts.
And then if we look over a couple of columns,
you'll see our RAM is operating at 1.1 volts
and our chipset core is operating just over one volt.
You'll see the system is providing 12 volts DC,
and it's actually providing 12.096 volts DC.
And our system is providing five volts DC,
which is 5.040 volts DC.
But again, we're going to round those to 12 and 5,
which are two of the three numbers
that we usually expect to see
when we're talking about power supply, voltages;
12, 5, and 3.3 volts DC
are three voltages that we're going to use in most systems.
Then we can go ahead and hit escape.
This will take us back to the main menu.
And we're going to look at the board explorer,
which is the last thing I wanted to show you
on this particular system.
Now in the board explorer,
this shows a visual graphical representation
of my motherboard.
Not all EUFI are going to have this, but this one does
and it's kind of a nice feature.
Now,
if I wasn't sure what things were plugged into which places
and what is operating on my system,
I can see that here.
Everything that's in red
means that there is something plugged into it.
So I can see here that my processor socket,
and if I highlight it,
it's telling me I have an AM4 socket
and the processor I've installed in there
is an 8-core AMD Ryzen 7 5700X processor.
And we know from before, it's operating at 3.4 gigahertz.
The next thing we have below it is our memory.
And you can see that I have slot A2 and slot B2
filled with memory,
And each of these is using a Corsair memory chip
that is 16 gigabytes each,
and that gives me a total of 32 gigabytes of memory.
As I move over to the left,
you will see that the graphics card slot,
the PCI express X16
is actually having a VGA-compatible controller
from ATI in it.
Now it couldn't detect exactly what controller I have,
but at least we know there is an expansion card in there
and that it's a graphics card.
Next, as we move down,
we will see that we have the chipset,
and this is the B550 chipset that allows our processor
to talk to all of our external devices
such as our SATA controllers, USB controllers,
and our rear port cluster.
As we go a little bit lower,
we will see the SATA ports
and it highlights it and brings it up.
And we can see that I am plugged into SATA port 4
with my Western Digital four-terabyte hard drive.
As we move back up, we could check our M2 connector
and see that we do have that Samsung SSD 980 PRO,
which is two terabytes in size as displayed there.
And as we move up,
we can also see our PCI express X1 slot
has something in it,
and in this case, is an unknown vendor
with a multimedia device.
Now I know I installed an Elgato capture card in this slot,
and that is exactly what this is.
It's an HDMI capture card,
which is a type of multimedia device.
All those ones on the left side that are red,
those are my different case fans.
So you see here is system case fan 5,
and you can even hover over it
and see how fast it's spinning, update it in real time.
And then as we go down,
we'll see a couple of our USB headers
and it gives us a graphical depiction of those.
And then as we move around to the front side of the board,
we'll have another USB Gen 1 connector,
in this case, nothing is plugged into it.
And then we have our main board power here
providing 12 volts DC.
And then over to this side,
we again have fan connector 2, fan connector 1,
and the CPU fan connector over here
that's currently operating around 650 to 700 RPMs.
As we go up to the top,
we can see that we have our CPU power connector,
and then all the way at the top is our rear port cluster
and it shows us graphically a picture of that as well.
So you can see this can be pretty useful
as you're learning your motherboard
and figuring out what is actually in it
by using this board Explorer if your system provides one.
So as you can see,
the EUFI has a lot of different capability
and a lot of different settings beyond the BIOS,
but it really does cover most of the same things
as the BIOS.
In fact, MSI even calls this a BIOS just by name
to keep it so it's not confusing for people.
But it is technically a EUFI.
As you could see,
MSI likes to call this the Click BIOS 5,
which is their fifth version of this software,
but it is technically a EUFI interface
because we're using our mouse and keyboard,
and we have a lot of additional tools and diagnostics
that we didn't have inside of a BIOS-based system.