You may never think about what your computer is doing for those few seconds of black screen before your operating system plays its friendly startup chime. That is, unless the BIOS hangs and the black ...

If you’ve never run a diagnostics test on your own smartphone, it’s worth doing—especially as your phone starts to show its age, or if you purchased a “new” smartphone secondhand and want to get a ...

The BIOS is an essential set of routines in a PC, stored on a chip. It provides an interface between the operating system and the hardware, acting as an intermediary between a computer's hardware and ...