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AMD Say Radeon Vega VII UEFI 1-Click Fix Coming Soon
Radeon Vega VII Firmware Update On The Way While many were excitedly hoping to try out their brand new AMD Radeon Vega VII graphics cards, a rather embarrassing omission from Team Red came to light. Specifically, they had completely forgotten to include UEFI BIOS support for it. The issue caused major issues…
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Biostar Updates 300-Series BIOS for Intel 9th Gen Support
New Intel CPUs, Same Biostar Motherboard Intel is due to launch their 9th generation processors soon. These 9th Gen Core processors are physically socket compatible with the 300-series chipset line. So motherboard manufacturer Biostar has issued BIOS updates across their 300-series chipset motherboard lineup providing support for these processors. The…
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New UEFI Malware Discovered With Russian Links
New UEFI Malware Discovered With Russian Links The UEFI firmware on your system is perhaps some of the most important. A more modern take on the BIOS system (and sometimes named it just to avoid confusion) it is the initial programming necessary to ensure that when you push that on…
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Intel Will Kill Legacy BIOS Support By 2020
After a 45 year run, the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) is finally going to die. As one of the most fundamental parts of a PC, the move has been a long time coming. The first killing blow comes from Intel in their future platform. Starting in 2020, Intel will no longer…
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Biostar Rolls Out AGESA 1.0.0.6 Update for X370GTN Motherboard
Biostar‘s popular X370GTN mini-ITX motherboard just got an upgrade in the form of the AGESA 1.0.0.6 update. AGESA stands for “AMD Generic Encapsulated System Architecture” and is the foundation of BIOS code for Ryzen mainboards. The 1.0.0.6 update is particularly special since it provides considerable DDR4 compatibility and speed boost.…
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MSI Updates Intel 200-Series Motherboard BIOS for Optane Memory Support
The latest cutting edge Optane non-volatile memory technology from Intel is finally here and MSI has released a BIOS update to help users get the most out of its performance on their 200-series motherboards. Intel Optane is currently only supported exclusively in 200-series chipsets which include the flagship Z270, the…
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AMD Acknowledges Ryzen FMA3 Bug and is Preparing Fix
Several days ago, reports surfaced from HWBot’s forums of an AMD Ryzen bug that crashes the system under a specific chain of FMA3 instructions. HWBot forum regular Mystical has discovered that using a very particular set of FMA3 instructions in Flops v2, AMD Ryzen CPUs will crash with Haswell optimised binaries.…
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Windows Update Breaks Windows 7 UEFI Support on ASUS Motherboards
It’s always recommended to install Windows security updates to fix operating system bugs and make your system secure. As a result, the majority of users apply recommended updates in addition to using security software like Avast. The widespread adoption of these updates should evoke a sense of confidence that they’ve…
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ASUS Z170I PRO GAMING (LGA 1151) Motherboard Review
Introduction The capabilities of ITX motherboards have progressed at an exponential rate and easily provides the overclocking prowess, connectivity and stability required without making too many concessions compared to their ATX counterparts. Furthermore, the huge popularity of small form-factor LAN cases like the BitFenix Prodigy have made ITX systems a more…
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ASRock’s Z170 Motherboards Feature DDR4 OC With Select Modules
It isn’t always that all features in software are revealed right away and that is also what seems to have happened with ASRock’s latest Z170 BIOS. It had a hidden feature that only was revealed when certain memory modules were inserted and that is an automatic overclocking of these memory…
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UEFI BIOSes Are Threatened By New LightEater Malware
While the new UEFI BIOSes are neat and come with a lot of features, they are also miniaturised OSes in their own, which makes them as vulnerable as a normal OS. Security researchers Corey Kallenberg and Xeno Kovah proved at CanSecWest how easy it is for an unskilled individual to…
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BIOS Vulnerability Still Roaming Wild despite Warnings
A multi-year effort to prevent hackers from altering computers while they boot up has largely failed and the flaws are still being exploited despite their disclosures. According to researchers from the federal founded MITRE lab, many Intel customers have still not adopted the revised security design distributed in March after even…
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ASUS A88X-PRO (FM2+) Motherboard Review
Introduction With AMD’s fourth generation of AMD APUs, Kaveri, just around the corner it couldn’t be a better time to look at a brand spanking new FM2+ motherboard from ASUS. Today we have the ASUS A88X PRO motherboard on the test bench and this high-end motherboard will make the perfect…
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ASUS Launch Haswell H81 Series Motherboards
ASUS have just announced their entire series of H81 chipset Haswell motherboards. The line up includes H81M-Plus, H81M-A, H81M-C and H81M-E Micro-ATX motherboards; and the H81I-Plus Mini-ITX (from left to right). All models feature two DDR3 DIMM Slots, one PCI Express X16 slot and two SATA III slots. All models are…
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Flaws In UEFI Can Be Abused To Install UEFI Bootkit
According to a PC World report, via Softpedia, three researchers demonstrated a UEFI vulnerability at the 2013 Black Hat conference. Andrew Furtak, Oleksandr Bazhaniuk and Yuriy Bulygin demonstrated two attack methods that can be used to bypass the secure boot to install a UEFI bootkit. One of the attack techniques relies…
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