Although the typical laptop boots from an internal hard drive containing an operating system, there are times when you need to boot from an external device, such as a ...

Look at your libraries on your Acer laptop – all your files, receipts, invoices and contact information. Now imagine losing all of it. That is not a pretty picture for any business user. Larger ...

Usually, when you plug some RAM and a charger into a board, then press the power button, your board should boot up and eventually show the BIOS on the screen. However, there will be some caveats – ...

Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

I must confess, that I try not to run Windows any more than absolutely necessary. But for many reasons, it is occasionally necessary. In particular, I have had several laptops that are finicky with ...

Is your laptop slowing down during everyday tasks? A simple storage upgrade could improve speed, boost performance, and ...

For some time now I have gotten a slow but steady volume of requests that I write about UEFI firmware and EFI boot relative to installing and maintaining Linux. As a result of a casual comment I made ...

My buddy gave me his wife's Dell Studio 1737 to fix, tried to let it boot normally, got a BSOD with an error msg. Ok, driver issue. I googled and found out this ...