UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is a standard designed to replace the venerable PC BIOS. Does your system support UEFI yet? Watch out for those 3 Tbyte hard drives if you don't. UEFI ...

A tiny BIOS chip lurks inside every computer, sitting on your motherboard to breathe life into your system when you press the power button. It not only powers your PC, but helps protect it, too—as ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

Updating your BIOS can bring all sorts of benefits, from improving stability, adding compatibility for new processors and memory types, and even improving performance. Motherboard manufacturers often ...

The BIOS (or Basic Input/Output System) is what kicks into gear when you turn on your computer: It’s the most fundamental level of software there is on your machine, checking that all the system ...

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