let's unveil the secret....<BR>hot swap can damage things form a to z of the pc...<BR>so unplug everthing and use a p133 with 8mb ram no HD, only floppy disk then hot swap with the same pin count chip ...

Hewlett-Packard regularly releases BIOS or firmware updates for its Pavilion line of desktop systems and recommends that users update the BIOS on the machines if experiencing problems. In most cases, ...

A couple of weeks ago, [Doug Brown] bought a Ryzen motherboard, advertised as “non-working” and discounted accordingly. He noticed that the seller didn’t test it with any CPUs old enough to be ...

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 ...

Vulnerabilities have been detected in the BIOS chips found in millions of computers which could leave users open to hacking, as demonstrated by two researchers at the CanSecWest conference in ...

ASRock has pushed a fresh BIOS update for its 800-series motherboards, claiming better CPU and memory stability after its boards developed a nasty habit of roasting AMD’s new Ryzen 9000 processors.

MSI has now launched its new AMD 400 series Motherboards with 256Mb BIOS Chips after installing many of its AMD 400-series chipset motherboards 128 Mbit 16MB SPI flash ROM chips instead of larger 256 ...