UEFI Secure Boot has very little market penetration at the moment -- but with Windows 8 requiring UEFI, that should quickly change. This might only be a partial fix, though: I don't know if UEFI will ...

China has worked for years to further separate its computing progress from the United States and its tech companies. Today heralds a major development to this end, as the Global Computing Consortium ...

Why Convert Legacy BIOS to UEFI? Converting Legacy BIOS to UEFI can significantly enhance your system's performance and security, particularly if you are planning to upgrade to the latest versions of ...

I'm hoping someone still has this information squirreled way in the basement or attic of their brain. I have three motherboards from the Pentium MMX/Pentium II era. Two are Chips and Technologies that ...

The successor to the long-known BIOS system, dubbed UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), serves as your motherboard firmware on every newer computer. Even though most people still call it ...

One of the largest underlying changes to Windows 8 is the long-overdue shift from BIOS to UEFI. UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is superior to BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) in almost ...

If you’re lucky enough to have one of AMD’s screaming new X3D CPUs designed from the ground up to boost gaming performance, you might want to check your motherboard’s manufacturer for a new BIOS ...

MSI has now launched its new AMD 400 series Motherboards with 256Mb BIOS Chips after installing many of its AMD 400-series chipset motherboards 128 Mbit 16MB SPI flash ROM chips instead of larger 256 ...

Firmware: the unprotected layer inside every computer. Two months ago, researchers at US security company AdvIntel discovered that one of the Internet’s most troublesome malware platforms, Trickbot, ...

Before we discuss XMP, DOCP, and EOCP, it is important to know about RAM SPD. SPD stands for Serial Presence Detect. It is a chip found on every RAM module that stores the default RAM configurations, ...