You can find performance boosts on your existing hardware without buying anything new.

Because a great PC experience starts before the OS boots ...

I have a few dozen remote HP Pavilions less than two years old running 8.1 that I'd really like to refresh / update their BIOS. This I can do remotely easy enough. However, updating the BIOS causes ...

I recently reformatted a machine after a friend did a major screwup on it. It worked fine until some print job she did asked for some windows file. Well, she ended up installing W98 again in a ...

We lock down our user accounts with passwords. But the BIOS often gets left unguarded. This vulnerability allows anyone with physical access to your PC to tamper with critical system settings. This ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the main culprits behind BIOS issues is the CMOS battery. The battery powers the CMOS memory, which stores BIOS settings. If the battery is drained, the CMOS will not remember the settings, and ...