Hackers are increasingly exploiting weaknesses in IT system hardware rather than software. To close this gap, we are introducing a new open source project based on Google’s Titan security technology ...

If your computer is not booting with the two RAM sticks, the problem might be with your RAM sticks or the RAM slots. In this case, you can do one thing. Insert only one RAM stick at a time and start ...

Safe Mode is a lightweight version of the Windows operating system that you can use to troubleshoot the computer when the operating system fails to boot. However, if Safe Mode doesn't work, you must ...

Unless your computer is pretty old, it probably uses UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) to boot. The idea is that a bootloader picks up files from an EFI partition and uses them to start ...

When your Windows 11 system gets stuck on the Gigabyte logo during boot, it typically indicates a failure in the boot process before the operating system can fully load. This can result from hardware ...

First off, a little context. I'm a 30+ year Mac user and I just bought my first PC in decades. I'm no stranger to Windows and Linux, but haven't used them as a desktop OS for about 15 years. My ...

Reader Steve P. sends in this question: “I’m running Windows 2000 and want to upgrade my system BIOS. The instructions say to create a bootable disk with the format a:/s command. However, the /s doesn ...

Windows 10 is here, but some users may not want to get rid of Windows 7 or Windows 8 quite yet. They may have a Mac or a Linux-based computer. Buying another computer for Windows 10 is one way to have ...

I've got a small irritant in my computing life these days. My Asrock B650M-HDV/M.2 will sometimes hang at boot up. It sticks at the splash screen and will not start the operating system, no matter how ...

QMy Windows Millennium Edition PC was hit by the CMOS B virus. Now the system freezes up every time I run Norton. AAlthough last week's Nimda virus got all the press, it wasn't the only virus ...