This week, I will discuss advanced features of the BIOS. These include proper configuration of built-in peripherals, as well as power-management issues to consider. Let's dig in. This section of the ...

Password strength and encryption are important things when it comes to computers. A password is the entire security of your computer, and OS passwords are not hard to break. Most users believe that if ...

BIOS enables computers to perform certain operations as soon as they are turned on. The principal job of a computer's BIOS is to govern the early stages of the startup process, ensuring that the ...

This article is the seventh and final in a series of how-to stories on building a computer. For a video version or part seven, click here. Configuring the BIOS is going to be one of the final steps to ...

recently bought the parts for a P4-based system. System wouldn't boot (I got a blank screen), but cpu fan, video card fan and IDE drives spun up so assumed the mobo's cpu port was damaged. So got a ...

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 ...