Microsoft’s CA-2023 Secure Boot update broke PCs. Learn why UEFI firmware failed, how vendors reacted, and how to fix your boot issues.

We're in the home stretch now. In the first post of this series I looked at the general characteristics of Linux installations on systems with UEFI firmware - specifically how the disk is partitioned, ...

Solid-state drives (SSD) are a faster upgrade to the traditional hard disk drives (HDD). SSDs beat HDDs, not only in speed but also in performance and durability. This post isn’t about how great SSDs ...

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 ...

Use these fixes if your Windows PC is stuck in a boot loop after a BIOS update. Before proceeding, disconnect all peripherals and check if your PC boots into Windows. Press and hold the power button ...

On some Dell PCs, including desktops and notebooks, the latest firmware update from the company seems to be causing various issues like BSODs, boot loops, and boot failures, among others. Some of Dell ...

Connecting an external hard drive to a computer before turning on the system can confuse the device when loading the operating system. When a computer hangs after the BIOS splash screen while being ...

With an old laptop, I cloned the OS HD to an SSD with Macrium Reflect, both harddrives are mounted inside the laptop. When I enter the BIOS, I wanted to select the SSD as the first boot choice. But it ...

Modern computers have become pretty powerful, and even compared to the builds from 5 years ago, we've come a pretty long way. Back in the day, the metric for how powerful and fast your computer was ...