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BIOS setting demystified

I find that when it comes to people building their own PCs (or tweaking their existing rig) then the mysteries that lay within the BIOS settings are scarier to most people than anything hardware related. Let’s do something about that!

I can see why the myriad of BIOS settings instill part excitement and part fear in many people. After all, it’s almost impossible to connect two bits of hardware together in the wrong way, and hard to break anything unless you are being particularly clumsy or using hulk-like strength to force incompatible parts together. But when it comes to the BIOS settings, it seems like there are an infinite number of settings that can be fiddled with, and each of the individual settings seems to have dozens of possible values.

To make matters worse, almost every BIOS is different. OK, that’s not exactly true, but it’s true enough in that it’s impossible for me to give you a definitive overview of the BIOS that you can take with you and apply to every motherboard you come across.

So, rather than give you a roadmap for a specific BIOS, what I’m going to do here is cover some of the more obscure BIOS settings that you are likely to come across.

Note: Unless you are overclocking your system, 95% of the time you can get away with leaving everything at the default setting. However, there are times when you might need to dig in the BIOS to make a small change, and that’s when a little bit of familiarity with the BIOS really pays off!

Great Read...

I just Tipped your Scales Sir.. but I know my BIOS pretty well

Thanks!

Thank you.

NICE READ!!!

this will be very helpful for anyone tinkering with their BIOS for the first time.....
learned a few things myself..

SK

Nice find Les, tipped your scales enough for a promotion

Edit seems like skunk beat me to giving you enough rep for a promo.

Thanks for the thought though, isn't that what counts?

Nonsense only rep counts! LOL

Hi Les, thanks for that. Do I have to call you Sir now or will Mr Guru do?

Sir is my uncle, Mr is my father so Les will do.