Most Commonly Asked Questions About BIOS

Most Commonly Asked Questions About BIOS

As a BIOS manufacturer, we often hear and get questions concerning BIOS. For today’s post, we decided to round up a few of the most commonly asked questions about BIOS and answer them! What does BIOS stand for? BIOS stands for Basic Input Output System. What...
Why Use UEFI Instead of Other Boot Loaders?

Why Use UEFI Instead of Other Boot Loaders?

Before Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), there was legacy BIOS. You may hear us throwing around the term “legacy BIOS” all the time. Although sometimes we use BIOS and UEFI interchangeably (or sometimes at the same time), the actual term we...
What Happens When You Press the Power Button?

What Happens When You Press the Power Button?

So when you press that power button, what exactly happens? In simple terms, the system is going to go through the boot process, a process that is overseen by the one and only BIOS. It doesn’t seem like the system is going through an entire process because it all...