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 ...

Intel ME, AMT, SMT, V-Pro… All of these acronyms are kind of intimidating, all we know about them is that they are tied to remote control technologies rooted deep in Intel CPUs, way deeper than even ...

Why it matters: While Windows Update can automatically push some firmware updates, there are situations where manual action is required. Thankfully, motherboard makers are working to streamline this ...

If you look at the back of your Windows computer, you may see a strange button. Chances are, it is the Quick Flash BIOS button, but not everyone knows what it’s all about. We tend to see the Quick ...

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, ...