A neighbor asked me to wipe their PC hard drive so they could give the PC to a friend. I took my XP disc over, since they didn't have one, and tried to boot from the CDROM. Wouldn't do it. So I went ...

Hey there. Last night my system froze & when I rebooted I got this message: "Please re-setting CPU frequency in CMOS" I went into BIOS and made sure defaults were loaded then booted again. At the ...

You can reset your BIOS in a few different ways, but they all have the same effect: They set all the BIOS settings back to their factory defaults. That means it ...

The CMOS battery is an often overlooked but crucial element. Hidden on the motherboard of your computer, it acts like an emergency power supply for the BIOS. When you disconnect your computer’s power ...

If it's possible to adjust a few BIOS settings to get better performance, that raises the question of why the manufacturer did not design the machine to default to the best possible BIOS settings. In ...

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 ...

Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, ...