The BIOS is an essential set of routines in a PC, stored on a chip. It provides an interface between the operating system and the hardware, acting as an intermediary between a computer's hardware and ...

Operating systems are designed to work on $200 laptops and $5,000 workstations and everything that comes in between, so you ...

Your PC doesn’t immediately launch into Windows when you first turn it on; first it must run a more rudimentary bit of code called the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System). The BIOS code is stored on a ...

The first thing I do on any Windows 11 PC to boost performance is adjust the visual effects. These include features such as ...

Rohkai asked the Answer Line forum if a PC’s BIOS, like an operating system or an antivirus, should be kept up to date. You should update several programs on your hard drive regularly, usually for ...

Riot Games, best known for titles like Valorant and League of Legends and the Vanguard anti-cheat software, has often been ...

digg_url = 'http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/ultimate_bios_guide_every_bios_setting_revealed'; Power users routinely punch into the BIOS in order to fine ...

If you have an Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, or ASRock motherboard, you need to update the BIOS if you want to continue playing Valorant. That's because a critical flaw was recently found that allows cheaters ...

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 ...

There are Doom ports to everything under the sun, from Game & Watch to Minecraft to a digital camera, so being able to run the classic FPS game on a regular PC isn't that impressive - but it is if you ...