As the proxy between your operating system and the hardware components that give a computer its utility and enable your productivity, your system BIOS is perhaps the most important piece of software ...

Laptops are complicated beasts. There's a whole PC jammed into the base of a foldable computer and as such thermal management is a huge challenge. To get the best performance out of a CPU or GPU ...

In early 2018, the Meltdown & Spectre vulnerabilities required Technology Support Services to update BIOS firmware on our campus Dell computers. Since then, there have been multiple variants of the ...

The Spectre & Meltdown mess continues with Dell now recommending their customers do not install the BIOS updates that resolve the Spectre (Variant 2) vulnerabilities. These updates have been causing ...

Dell has released a BIOS update for Inspiron Mini 9 netbooks. The A04 BIOS version includes a couple of new features and fixes. For instance, the bootup splash screen is now at the proper resolution.

As users, we’re generally conditioned to implicitly trust software and updates that come from the people who make our computers. But those people are also, well, people, and sometimes make mistakes.

It appears that the fallout from Intel's release of BIOS updates to address Spectre and Meltdown chip vulnerabilities continues to rain down on the PC community. Most recently, Dell has advised its ...

Dell and HP have heeded Intel's advice and stopped deploying BIOS updates carrying its buggy patch for the Spectre attack. HP, the world's biggest PC maker, has updated its advisory for the Meltdown ...

Sister-in-law has a Dell Inspiron 5680 that seems to have bricked after a bad BIOS update. The system is an i7-8700 with 1x8GB DDR4 RAM (SK Hynix 2400 MHz), 128GB M.2 SSD (SATA, SK Hynix), 1TB HDD, ...

This post will show you how to recover BIOS settings in HP, ASUS, Dell, and other laptops. This can be useful if your Windows computer does not start. BIOS stands for Basic Input Output System. It is ...