When your PC boots up, the first thing that loads up is the UEFI Firmware or the BIOS. It does a lot of things, including the option of which hardware to use to boot Windows. If you want to boot from ...

The following are the highlights — and lowlights — of my adventures over the past 36 hours or so with the new Compaq 15 laptop which I picked up recently, Windows 8.1 and UEFI BIOS/boot. I started ...

The HP PC Hardware Diagnostics is a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) that provides diagnostic tests to see if your PC hardware is working properly, by isolating hardware failures. After ...