COMMENTARY--Reporting from the Intel Developer Forum last month, I covered an Intel initiative called the Extensible Firmware Interface, or EFI. It was, I thought, a solid but unexciting story: Intel ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have this really old Gateway2000 P5-200 system. It has a 200Mhz CPU and like 32MB of RAM. The current HD is failing so i got a new one for it. Its an IBM Deskstar 40GB HD. The problem is that the ...

An interesting observation. As you guys all know, AMD made last-minute alteration towards the Radeon RX 5600 XT BIOS files in the week of the graphics card release. All tests and reviews had to be ...