We like to joke about percussive maintenance when we talk about tools and technology. A good swift hit with a hammer can fix a lot of issues, right? Well, one researcher out of New Zealand found it ...

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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 ...

Whenever you buy used computers there is a risk that they come with unpleasant surprises that are not of the insect variant. From Apple hardware that is iCloud-locked with the original owner MIA ...

AMD graphics cards are no stranger to BIOS modifications to “unlock” previously unsupported functionality. Back in April, we reported of enthusiasts flashing Radeon RX 480 GPUs with the BIOS from the ...

As someone who tinkers with PC hardware for a living, I’m generally the first stop for friends and family members who are having issues with their PC. There are a lot of simple fixes — it’s still easy ...

Recently I wrote a review for the Linux Journal Web site on the Purism Librem 15 laptop. The goal of this laptop is to provide a piece of modern hardware that can run 100% free software not just for ...

AMD Radeon RX 480 owners have discovered a trick that lets them upgrade their graphics cards to the RX 580. This is accomplished by flashing the BIOS of the newer graphics card onto the old hardware.

The user can go to BIOS settings by pressing the access BIOS settings key when the laptop starts up. The access BIOS settings key is a single key or a combination of keys which need to be pressed to ...

Intel will drop support for the legacy BIOS technology in its modern client and server chipsets by 2020 when the company said its products would support only UEFI Class 3 or higher. This news comes ...