This was my thought process until a few weeks ago, when I was messing around in my BIOS and had to clear the CMOS. After ...

Just so that you should know that BIOS time is not new – it was only not enabled for all. What is the Last BIOS time? Technically it is the amount of time taken by the UEFI (BIOS) to initialize (POST) ...

The BIOS can be seen as a miniature operating system responsible for interfacing with the hardware. The portion of the BIOS that has the greatest effect on boot time is the boot code. This code, which ...

Once the processor is running and memory has been initialized, timers and devices must be started up and a memory map laid out. Only then, can the OS be loaded. In the first part of this article, I ...