The next time you update your PC or try to troubleshoot compatibility problems, you'll may need to know your current BIOS. You could reboot the computer, but it's much easier to use the Windows ...

At times, a user may encounter system crashes or BIOS issues that they wish to resolve. If you believe a BIOS update caused the issue, the best way to resolve it is to downgrade to the previous BIOS ...

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 ...

"One must always update the BIOS." You might not be jumping at every new BIOS version your motherboard vendor releases, but I can safely assume that you update your ...

Intel’s 8088 processor was released in 1979 and the 4.77 MHz processor was at the heart of the first IBM PC that was released two years later. While the processor is pretty sluggish by modern ...

To "flash the BIOS" means to install an update to the BIOS firmware. You are replacing the older BIOS version with a newer version. Unless you are experiencing bugs ...

As a PC owner, one of the most important things to know is the manufacturer, model and BIOS version of the motherboard you have in your system. This is one of the first questions I ask people when ...

MSI has released a BIOS update that addresses a few minor issues including a fix affecting the S4 sleep mode. Members of the MSI Wind forums report upgrading the BIOS to version 1.0A doesn’t seem to ...

I'm helping a small charity clean up an HP/Compaq 8200 SFF. The BIOS version is 2.28 - several versions behind. Does anyone have the binaries for 2.29 or higher for that model? It's deprecated, so HP ...

Not all graphics cards provide the option to be flashed with any firmware, except only NVIDIA and AMD. In this post, we will discuss how to flash any BIOS to NVIDIA ...

Hack #9 from PC Hacks by Jim Aspinwall (O’Reilly Media). You may be able to find a BIOS upgrade to work around that unhackable, squeaky-clean OEM BIOS. By this ...