The whole purpose of dual-booting is to choose which OS you want to boot into. Traditionally, this is done in a clunky way, ...

BIOS power settings that can significantly boost your CPU performance and overclocking potential, including PL1, PL2, EDC, and TDC.

Just before we start, you should know that this post is not about switching firmware modes. If you are planning to move from legacy BIOS to UEFI, you will have to use MBR2GPT Tool. So if you are in a ...

I'm not having any luck installing Windows 10 on my desktop. I can get to the Windows 10 logo splash screen, but prior to giving me the little circle-dot throbber, my machine shuts off and turns back ...

When you disconnect your computer’s power supply from the wall, it jumps in to save your BIOS or UEFI settings in your motherboard’s CMOS-RAM (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor). But even the ...

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As computers evolve to new heights, so must the systems that allow them to work properly. I’m sure many of you have heard of BIOS, and if you have used it in the past, then you should know it can ...

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 ...

In this article, we’ll examine and explain the difference between BIOS and UEFI in depth. We will also discuss some of their similarities, along with some of their advantages and disadvantages. To get ...

Even before the first personal computer appeared in 1984, BIOS technologies, which are needed to initialize hardware, test hardware functionalities and start the operating system, were already in use ...