If your business or home computer refuses to start up, especially after changing any of the basic boot settings or updating firmware, you may need to reset settings in the basic input-output system or ...

When you disconnect your computer’s power supply from the wall, it jumps in to save your BIOS or UEFI settings in your motherboard’s CMOS-RAM (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor). But even the ...

When a computer boots up, the MSI motherboard BIOS is controlling the boot process -- it checks power, CPU, RAM and devices attached to the system, which is called the POST (or Power On Self Test) ...

There are certain computer tasks that even professional technicians don't like tackling. For myself, one of the most nerve-wracking was updating a computer's BIOS. The BIOS is like a primitive ...

Saving BIOS data prior to the battery change and configuration is strongly recommended. How to identify and change the CMOS battery? You need to begin by locating the CMOS battery, which is a thin, ...

The BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) is the basic program used as an interface between the operating system and the motherboard. The Basic Input Output System (BIOS) is stored on a ROM (read-only ...

CMOS or Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor is a small amount of memory in the motherboard of your computer and is used to store BIOS settings. They are very important for your computer as they ...

I had an Asus M4A784-M motherboard I was using in my Ubuntu Server, randomly it restarted one day and said that the BIOS failed it's checksum and just thumbed it's nose at me. Ok fine, I finally ...

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 ...

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 ...