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 ...

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 ...

In this guide, I'll show you how to perform a BIOS update on your PC motherboard. Flashing your BIOS is a relatively simple process, but it's one that you'll need to get absolutely right if you don't ...

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I have written a number of times recently about UEFI Boot, and how much trouble I have had getting it set up and getting it to stay the way I want it. It is important to remember that system ...