On your Windows 11 or Windows 10 system, you can easily check if your PC supports UEFI or BIOS and can boot into UEFI or BIOS firmware depending on your PC manufacturer. You can update BIOS if the ...

My dad had an older gateway laptop that he's going to sell. I couldn't for teh life of me figure out how to get it to boot form anything other the the harddrive in order to use dban to wipe everything ...

You may still call it the BIOS out of habit, but make no mistake: the BIOS is long gone. UEFI is what brought the PC platform into the modern era, and it has been doing the heavy lifting for years.