When a computer powers on, it configures its hardware components prior to loading the operating system. The settings it needs to configure the hardware make up the computer's Basic Input Output System ...

A computer's Basic Input Output System and Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor together handle a rudimentary and essential process: they set up the computer and boot the operating system. The BIOS ...

This was my thought process until a few weeks ago, when I was messing around in my BIOS and had to clear the CMOS. After ...

You can easily reset CMOS using the BIOS Menu. We are going to change all the BIOS settings to default in order to reset CMOS. Restart your computer and boot into BIOS. When your computer starts, a ...

We will show you the following two methods to reset ASUS BIOS depending on the mode of your BIOS, i.e., UEFI and Legacy. Reset the BIOS settings in BIOS in UEFI mode Reset the BIOS settings in BIOS in ...

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 ...

A battery that maintains the time, date, hard disk and other configuration settings in the CMOS memory. CMOS batteries are small and are attached directly to the motherboard. See BIOS setup and ...

Reader Robert has an older Emachines desktop that recently developed a problem: “I installed a driver updater tool, and when I deleted it, it did something that changed my BIOS. The black screen ...

digg_url = 'http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/ultimate_bios_guide_every_bios_setting_revealed'; Power users routinely punch into the BIOS in order to fine ...

Operating systems are designed to work on $200 laptops and $5,000 workstations and everything that comes in between, so you can count on their defaults to be a tad ill-suited. As you'd expect, Windows ...