Enabling lesser-known ASUS BIOS settings such as Memory Context Restore and bank address hashing can noticeably improve system responsiveness. Memory Context Restore shortens startup by reusing prior ...

Bartlett Lake, Intel's P-core only family of CPUs intended for edge and industrial use cases has been modded to run on consumer Z790 motherboards. At the moment, the flagship Core 9 273QPE with 12 ...

Secure Boot has been part of the PC ecosystem since 2011, but 2023–2025 finally pushed it into the spotlight, and not in a way Microsoft, OEMs, or firmware vendors might have liked. What was once a ...

Valorant requires UEFI Secure Boot to be enabled on your PC. If it is not, the game will refuse to launch and you will see error codes like VAN 9001, VAN 9003, or VAN ...

I'm worried… I have an Asus ROG Strix Z370-G Gaming motherboard from (I think) 2018, running Windows 11 25H2. Both Powershell commands return "false". I upgraded my BIOS to the last version 3004 ...

Microsoft is making it easier for IT admins to monitor the status of Secure Boot on Windows devices across their organization. Secure Boot has been a pretty hot topic for Microsoft lately, especially ...

With the relatively secretive drop of Highguard, we’ve only just learned a lot about what the game actually is. It turns out that Highguard requires Secure Boot to activate the TPM anti-cheat kernel ...

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The UEFI firmware implementation in some motherboards from ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock is vulnerable to direct memory access (DMA) attacks that can bypass early-boot memory protections. The ...

TL;DR: ASUS's custom 800W XOC BIOS for the ROG Matrix GeForce RTX 5090 enables significantly higher GPU boost clocks and power limits. Enthusiasts have successfully flashed this BIOS onto various ...

If Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 isn’t launching on your PC due to Secure Boot errors, you need to check and adjust some settings on your PC. This usually involves changing settings in your BIOS menu, ...

The Activision Support page has a useful article filled with advice on how to do this. I also strongly recommend you check any relevant literature for your motherboard, especially when it comes to ...