BIOS is the older technology; computers sold today use UEFI instead. In simple terms, UEFI improves on the basics of BIOS, adding support for more modern security standards and internal components.

In this post now, we take a look at how to use BIOS settings on Windows computers. The BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) is also known as “Setup”.

When a computer starts up, it initializes the Basic Input-Output System before it starts up the operating system. The BIOS configures your computer's hardware components, which in turn helps your ...

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 ...

Power off the computer. Power it back on and press the key that takes you to the BIOS setup, such as "F2" or "Delete." The exact key will vary by computer manufacturer, but it should be displayed ...

Almost all fairly up-to-date computers use UEFI as motherboard firmware. If you are not sure whether your computer uses UEFI or Bios, you can look directly in the Windows operating system.

Q: I have an online weather station, and it drives me nuts when we have a power outage while we're away from home and my station (and computer) goes offline and stays offline even when the power ...

Older computers may not have support for USB devices in BIOS. The computers come with two PS/2 ports, one for a keyboard and the other for a mouse. If you have such a computer, you may not use the ...

Even if the BIOS update hadn’t turned my beloved computer into a defunct brick, I most certainly had done so with my Frankensteinesque manipulation of the internal components. Dismay turned into ...

If you're wondering what your computer's BIOS or UEFI is, and whether or not you need to update it, you've come to the right place. I'll explain what these terms mean, what these pieces of ...