Motherboard manufacturers play a bit too safe for my liking.

These small toggles can play a large part in your system's overall performance ...

On your Windows 11 or Windows 10 system, you can easily check if your PC supports UEFI or BIOS and can boot into UEFI or BIOS firmware depending on your PC manufacturer. You can update BIOS if the ...

Madeline (She/Her) is a PC Author at XDA with 13 years of experience in tech journalism. She focuses on gaming, computer hardware, components, and software. Mini PCs tend to do well with their ...

Your PC might mistakenly detect external drives, removable media (USB devices or non-bootable discs), etc., as bootable devices and attempt to boot from them. In this case, remove or disconnect ...

After a 7-year corporate stint, Tanveer found his love for writing and tech too much to resist. An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and ...

We lock down our user accounts with passwords. But the BIOS often gets left unguarded. This vulnerability allows anyone with physical access to your PC to tamper with critical system settings. This ...

Just built out a new desktop PC, or upgraded some key components? Getting to know these four key UEFI BIOS features will help you make sure everything’s running up to snuff. Years back, when a small ...

I've got an FIC AN-11 running Athlon XP 1700+ with half a gig of ram. I've been running with a single 40 gig hard drive (IBM Deskstar) but the motherboard has onboard RAID 0 and 1 support. So the 40 ...

I have been trying to figure out how to set the fan speeds in the bios so they do not ramp up and then down constantly at loud speeds but it seems no matter what is changed manually when you go to ...