OpenC6 BIOS is an open-source project by Rompass that takes a different approach to MCU development. It adds a BIOS-like system to the ESP32-C6, so the system part and application code can run separately rather than being combined into a single firmware image. In traditional development, hardware setup, networking, and application code are combined into a single firmware image. But the OpenC6…

An old-style PC BIOS served the function of a bootloader in loading the operating system kernel, and of an API in providing a set of standard system calls through which …read more

I don’t always update the BIOS of my system, but when I do, I always make sure to waste several hours doing so. Last time I did that was in 2020, but this happened again when I updated the BIOS for the Khadas Mind 2 to test it with the Mind xPlay display and Mind Graphics 2 dock. Khadas provides the BIOS with instructions to update the Mind 2 mini PC, and it’s supposed to take five minutes, but I…

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雖然現在消費者比較少注意電腦主機的BIOS供應商，不過在過去電腦開機不像現在如此飛速的時代，電腦使用者都至少會看到開機後顯示的BIOS畫面，其中Phoenix Technologies就是對於資深電腦玩家熟悉的其中一家主要BIOS供應商；聯想Lenovo宣布出手收購Phoenix Technologies旗下位於愛爾蘭都柏林的BIOS部門，提升集團垂直整合能力。聯想▲Phoenix長期作為聯想旗下ThinkPad的BIOS供應商，此次的收購算是策略性整合Phoenix Technologies本身與聯想合作已經超過20年，同時也是聯想集團旗下ThinkPad商用電腦BIOS的供應商，此次出手收

As unloved as IBM’s PCjr was, with only a one-year production run, it’s hard to complain about the documentation available for it. This includes the x86 assembly listing for the …read more

Once a pioneer in videocards, S3’s legacy is today mostly found in details like texture compression as well as the strong presence of S3-branded videocards in the retro-computing world. There’s …read more

Although Windows 95 stole the show, Windows 3.0 was arguably the first version of Windows that more or less nailed the basic Windows UI concept, with the major 3.1 update …read more

Last summer we took a look at FreeDOS as part of the Daily Drivers series, and found a faster and more complete successor to the DOS of old. The sojourn …read more

We’ve already checked CHUWI CoreBook Air Plus 16 hardware in the first part of the review, before testing the AMD Ryzen 5 6600H laptop with Windows 11 Pro, and today I’ll report my experience using the CoreBook Air Plus 16 laptop with Linux using Ubuntu 25.10 distribution. The Ubuntu review will include system information, benchmarks, YouTube 4K and 8K video playback, feature testing, storage and…

In the olden days, an administrator password on a BIOS was a mere annoyance, one quickly remedied by powering off the system and pulling its CMOS battery or moving a …read more

由於華擎ASRock仍持續傳出玩家使用Ryzen 9000處理器搭配其AM5主機板造成處理器毀損的情況，雖然其它品牌主機板也並非沒有類似的情況，但華擎主機板引發處理器故障的頻率明顯更高，或許是受到許多媒體報導在同一天於reddit回報5起華擎主機板引發Ryzen 9000處理器的事故，華擎發出正式聲明，雖沒直接回應燒毀處理器一事，但強調已經著手調查原因與進行驗證。▲公告還是沒提到燒毀CPU，但強調開始著手調查成因以及與AMD合作改善BIOS華擎在公告中指稱已經著手針對Ryzen 9000與華擎AMD主機板發生的情況進行全面的內部檢測與驗證，並攜手AMD進一步測試系統在各種配置的情況，並對BIO