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Delete key
How to Enter the BIOS on Any PC: Access Keys by Manufacturer

By Avram Piltch last updated

When you need to get into your computer's firmware setup, you can use one of these hotkeys or reboot to the BIOS through your operating system.

PC Building
Arrow Lake motherboards for pre-order
Vendors push Intel's promised performance-boosting BIOS for Arrow Lake

By Hassam Nasir Published

Board partners have begun pushing BIOS updates for Arrow Lake containing the 0x114 microcode and updated 1854 ME firmware.

CPUs
Arrow Lake
Intel's latest Arrow Lake CPU firmware reportedly offers little to no performance gains

By Hassam Nasir Published

The 0x114 microcode for Arrow Lake has leaked online but initial performance numbers suggest minimal gains in performance.

CPUs
Western Digital SSD
Western Digital releases fix for Windows 11 24H2 BSODs

By Hassam Nasir Published

Users facing BSODs when updating their WD/SanDisk SSD-equipped systems to Windows 11 24H2 are strongly recommended to update their SSDs' firmware.

SSDs
Official screenshot of Final Fantasy XVI
PS5 firmware update renders several games unplayable with severe graphics issues

By Christopher Harper Published

A PS5 firmware update has rendered several major titles unplayable with crashing or graphics glitches...the same week as two major AAA PS5-to-PC ports.

PlayStation
Crucial MX500
Crucial MX500 SSD firmware susceptible to buffer overflow security vulnerability

By Aaron Klotz Published

Crucial's old MX500 series SSDs are vulnerable to buffer overflow attacks. A fix or information on which firmware updates are impacted is unknown.

SSDs
AMD Ryzen 5 9600X
MSI releases firmware with 105W TDP mode for Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X

By Sunny Grimm Published

The AGESA BIOS PI 1.2.0.1 is real and brings performance improvements.

CPUs
Raspberry Pi
This Raspberry Pi Pico plays Pong using persistence of vision and custom mouse firmware

By Ash Hill Published

Guy Dupont is using a Raspberry Pi RP2040 to emulate Pong in the firmware of his mouse by using an RP2040 to interfere with the connection to the PC.

Raspberry Pi
Thermal imaging of Raspberry Pi 5 with Peltier cooling
Raspberry Pi 5 hits world-record 3.4 GHz with thermoelectric cooling and firmware tweaks

By Jeff Butts Published

In the "let's see how far we can push this puppy" scene, Jeff Geerling has managed to max out the Raspberry Pi 5 CPU to a speedy 3.4 GHz.

Raspberry Pi
Old PowerBook keyboard
Developer ports Windows NT to Power Macintosh systems

By Jeff Butts Published

You can use the newly released firmware and loader to test running Windows NT on your Power Macintosh.

Windows
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