My 12th Gen initially does not send anything to external display before OS loads, when the laptop is complete with the internal eDP screen present. To my amazement, the 3.08 BIOS enabled this feature, which is very convenient for me and a feature I’m no longer willing to live without.
Last time I tried with AMD13, I can confirm it doesn’t have this feature (3.05 BIOS). Unsure about 11th and 13th Gen, haven’t got my hands on them.
I’ve been considering to potentially upgrade to the Core Ultra generation later, but it will need to have this feature. @Wio_Steelhor , I just saw you with your new Core Ultra FW13 on a different topic. If you have an external display handy, would you mind trying if BIOS and other pre-OS interfaces can be shown externally? Other friends here are also welcome to chime in
(Also curious to know if the Core Ultra FW13 generation supports iGPU RAM allocation, CPU core management, and any other advanced settings. Seems like BIOS options on this generation is not yet well-documented)
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe on Intel iGPUs they usually do not list any dedicated graphics amount only shared graphics memory. This shared memory is usually just half of the total system memory.
Here’s a screenshot of my Task Manager with Iris Xe Graphics. It may be different now though because the Intel Core Ultra series uses Arc Graphics.
Yup, you are exactly right. Iris Xe doesn’t have user allocatable iGPU RAM reserve, I’m curious if Arc integrated graphics changed this, especially since current AMD counterparts can do it.
I would be interested to hear which laptop version can output BIOS display to external screen, even with the internal eDP screen connected.
It appears possible with 12th gen. What other generations can also do it?
My FW16 amd cannot do it.
My original (Batch 5, I think) Framework motherboard died recently, and I replaced it with a Core Ultra 7 motherboard. With the original motherboard, pre-boot external screen output was flaky but often worked. With the new Ultra 7 motherboard, I consistently got no pre-boot output to external screens until I tried disabling quick boot. (I had also earlier disabled quiet boot; don’t know if that was necessary but it was not sufficient.) With that I consistently get pre-boot output to all attached displays. (The tradeoff is I have to hit Del if I don’t want to wait for the RAM to be tested.) This is an old thread but I stumbled across it while trying to figure out how to enable GRUB and boot-drive-decryption output to external monitors, so I thought I’d share what worked for me.
The lack of bios/preboot display is one of the things that make dealing with standalone mode particularly painful. My 11th Gen original FW 13 board does show bios on HDMI, but I missed that when I updated my htpc setup to use an AMD 7040u board.
