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The Spectre & Meltdown mess continues with Dell now recommending their customers do not install the BIOS updates that resolve the Spectre (Variant 2) vulnerabilities. These updates have been causing ...

Your PC’s BIOS holds more potential than most people realize. From enabling faster RAM speeds to unlocking CPU and GPU performance, small tweaks can make a big difference. Learning which settings to ...

Laptops are complicated beasts. There's a whole PC jammed into the base of a foldable computer and as such thermal management is a huge challenge. To get the best performance out of a CPU or GPU ...

Sister-in-law has a Dell Inspiron 5680 that seems to have bricked after a bad BIOS update. The system is an i7-8700 with 1x8GB DDR4 RAM (SK Hynix 2400 MHz), 128GB M.2 SSD (SATA, SK Hynix), 1TB HDD, ...

If you own a Dell PC, you might want to be a bit more careful with installing the latest system updates. According to multiple reports on social media, there’s a new BIOS version that could end up ...

Dell and HP have heeded Intel's advice and stopped deploying BIOS updates carrying its buggy patch for the Spectre attack. HP, the world's biggest PC maker, has updated its advisory for the Meltdown ...

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 ...

PCWorld examines whether updating your computer’s BIOS/UEFI is worth the inherent risks, including potential system failure if the process gets interrupted. BIOS updates provide critical benefits like ...