This week, I will discuss advanced features of the BIOS. These include proper configuration of built-in peripherals, as well as power-management issues to consider. Let's dig in. This section of the ...

Configuring the BIOS is going to be one of the final steps to setting up a new PC. The BIOS is software built on to the motherboard that manages the installed ...

A BIOS update is especially necessary when you are about to upgrade your old computer to a newer processor. However, this process requires some skill. Here we give a general guide on how to update the ...

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 ...

While updating BIOS, if you get a BIOS ID check error message, here is how you can resolve the issue. Although this particular error message appears on a Gigabyte ...

Newcomers to PC building and tweaking are often advised to stay away from BIOS settings. Despite modern motherboards having built-in fail-safes, changing BIOS settings carelessly can cause serious ...

A computer’s basic input/output system (BIOS) is a program that’s stored in nonvolatile memory such as read-only memory (ROM) or flash memory, making it firmware. The BIOS (sometimes called ROM BIOS) ...

In early 2018, the Meltdown & Spectre vulnerabilities required Technology Support Services to update BIOS firmware on our campus Dell computers. Since then, there have been multiple variants of the ...

Use the following suggestions if your keyboard or mouse is not working in the BIOS or firmware settings of your Windows computer: Connect your keyboard or mouse to all available USB ports and see if ...