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 ...

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 ...

No one who assembles a PC or sets up a new computer can avoid the BIOS or UEFI. That’s where you define the basics, from the boot sequence and memory profiles to security features like Secure Boot.

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is one of the most important pieces of software to boot an operating system on a computer. BIOS being an alternative to UEFI already is less preferred when ...

There's a surprising amount of code running before the OS even loads.

The Windows 11 POST (Power On Self-Test) process happens quickly for improved startup times, leaving little room to hit the designated setup key and access the BIOS menu. For that reason, booting to ...

Other than securing your local account with a password or a PIN, one can set and use BIOS or UEFI passwords on their Windows computer. In this post, we see how you can set up an Administrator or ...

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Your computer's basic input/output system (BIOS) is about to become history and be replaced by Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) -- and that brings both advantages and problems. When you ...

Speaking at UEFI Plugfest, a hardware interoperability testing event held by the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Forum earlier this month, Intel announced that by 2020 it was going to ...