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I miss dearly bios write protect jumpers on motherboards.

• xvilka 8y ago
  The root of the problem that old BIOSes wrote their configuration into the CMOS memory, while all UEFI-based firmware storing configuration right in the SPI flash itself. Changing the values of variables every boot, sometimes performing "garbage collection" for compressing the size. Moreover, ME-like systems also write into the flash, sometimes even logging events. Every single boot, this is how it was designed.