Neowin News Feed for: Bios

MSI fixes the UNSUPPORTED PROCESSOR blue screen of death error

Taras Buria — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 08:14:01 +0000

MSI has released a new BIOS update to fix the UNSUPPORTED_PROCESSOR blue screen of death on certain motherboards for 12th and 13th Gen Intel processors paired with the recent Windows updates. Read more...

You can now update your Gigabyte motherboard BIOS to fix that security backdoor

John Callaham — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 11:14:01 +0000

The new BIOS firmware for Gigabyte's motherboards should help fix an issue that was revealed last week that would have allowed hackers to install malicious software on the affected boards. Read more...

GIGABYTE unveils A620 motherboards with AMD Ryzen 7000 support, offering AM5 platform

Fiza Ali — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 18:36:01 +0000

GIGABYTE has introduced its latest A620 motherboards with AMD Ryzen 7000 series processors, delivering "the most competitive AM5 platform." The A620 lineup is now available in the market. Read more...

Leaked AMD RX 6950 XT vBIOS suggests the card is more versatile than 6900 XT

Sayan Sen — Sat, 07 May 2022 13:26:01 +0000

The vBIOS details for a couple of AMD RX 6950 XT variants, the upcoming flagship RDNA 2 refresh GPU, have leaked. The leak provides some interesting details about the upcoming Radeon product. Read more...

Built on Intel vPro, Samsung's new Galaxy Book2 Business PC to ensure multi-level security

Fiza Ali — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 22:26:01 +0000

Samsung's new device in its Galaxy ecosystem, Galaxy Book2 Business, brings defense-grade security, and advanced productivity features. It will be available in Graphite color starting from April. Read more...

UEFI firmware from Microsoft, Intel, and more, at risk from nearly two dozen threats

Sayan Sen — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 16:04:02 +0000

Firmware security research firm Binarly has revealed that it discovered nearly two dozen vulnerabilities in InsydeH2O UEFI used by several vendors like Microsoft, Intel, Dell, HP, and more. Read more...

Microsoft releases a patch to force enable HP Battery Health Manager on some HP PCs

Abhay V — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 22:48:01 +0000

Microsoft and HP are rolling out a fix for a configuration issue with the HP Battery Health Manager in the BIOS on some business laptops like the EliteBook series. The update is rolling out now. Read more...

Dell unveils new tool to protect PCs from BIOS attacks as people work remotely

Jay Bonggolto — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 03:56:01 +0000

Dell announced today a new security tool built to protect commercial PCs from BIOS attacks. The goal is to help secure endpoints as many employees are working from home due to COVID-19 fears. Read more...

AMD's Ryzen 9 3950X has been delayed due to "unsatisfactory clock speeds", says report [Update]

Sayan Sen — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 20:46:01 +0000

AMD delayed the September launch of the Ryzen 9 3950X by a couple of months to November. The 16-core 32-thread monster CPU is allegedly facing clocking issues, similar to other Ryzen 3000 processors. Read more...

Motherboard vendors begin releasing BIOS updates for Intel's Core i9-9900KS support

Sayan Sen — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 18:38:01 +0000

Intel has been teasing its 8 core 5GHz CPU for quite some time now and it looks like the wait will be over soon as motherboard makers are starting to release firmware updates to add support for it. Read more...

Apple: iBoot source code leak does not impact iPhone security

Usama Jawad — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 13:48:01 +0000

According to Apple, there's little reason to worry about the leak of its iBoot source code yesterday, because the software is a part of iOS 9, which is over two years old, and thus, outdated. Read more...

Ubuntu 17.10.1 ISOs available with corrupting BIOS fix

Paul Hill — Sat, 13 Jan 2018 20:16:01 +0000

Canonical has disabled the SPI driver in the latest version of Ubuntu in order to stop BIOSes on computers being corrupted. The new update is classified as Ubuntu 17.10.1 and is supported until July. Read more...

Canonical temporarily disables Ubuntu 17.10 download

Paul Hill — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 08:24:01 +0000

Canonical temporarily pulled the Ubuntu 17.10 release on Wednesday after users reported that their BIOS was being corrupted when installing the operating system on specific machines. Read more...

Security experts create worm that infects Mac firmware and is nearly impossible to get rid of

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 08:26:01 +0000

Macs might seem like a safer alternative than PCs when it comes to digital attacks. But researchers have proven that's not actually the case when they created a firmware worm that infects Macs. Read more...

Security flaw leaves most Mac computers at-risk in sleep state

Chris Schroeder — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 18:40:01 +0000

A recently-discovered vulnerability in Apple's Macintosh computers allows hackers to dig deep into your computer undetected and rewrite how your machine works. Read more...

Unpatched BIOSes proven susceptible to effortless attacks

Shreyas Gandhe — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 00:52:01 +0000

Security researchers have showcased the hazards of having an unpatched BIOS using a proof of concept malware called "LightEater" at a recent information security conference in Canada. Read more...

Dell's Venue 8 Pro cools down with new BIOS

Dmitry Dolinsky — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 11:00:00 +0000

The positive response is a welcome change, and should allwo all users to finally upgrade their BIOS and enjoy longer battery life and a palm with reduced moisture. Read more...

New SteamOS beta ISO offers support for BIOS-based PCs and more

John Callaham — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 21:17:43 +0000

Valve has released a new version of its SteamOS beta ISO that adds support for older BIOS-based PCs, along with better dual-booting features, custom partitioning and more. Read more...

HP to launch new BIOS protection for its business laptops

John Callaham — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:31:49 +0000

HP has announced it will offer HP SureStart on its EliteBook business notebooks later this year, which will restore a laptop's BIOS within 30 seconds if it gets hit with malware or other theats. Read more...

Intel halts 34nm SSD shipments due to firmware defects

Kristan Kenney — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:19:03 +0000

Tom's Hardware reports that online retailers including Newegg have pulled Intel's latest SSD (Solid State Disk) from their websites just days after being made publicly available. This was due to a defect in the disk's... Read more...

Microsoft Responds to Reported OEM BIOS Hacks

Steven Parker — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:13:44 +0000

The WGA team have finally provided a written response to the reported OEM BIOS Hacks regarding Vista:I know many of you are aware of reports of hacks that attempt to exploit our OEM BIOS based... Read more...

World's First Mainboard with Open-Source BIOS

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:55:53 +0000

According to a post over at Gmane.org, AMD engineer Yinghai Lu has reportedly released source-code of the BIOS for the Gigabyte Technology M57SLI-S4 motherboard. This can potentially allow advanced users to "program their motherboards" by... Read more...

Researchers: Rootkits headed for BIOS

Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:03:18 +0000

Insider attacks and industrial espionage could become more stealthy by hiding malicious code in the core system functions available in a motherboard's flash memory, researchers said on Wednesday at the Black Hat Federal conference. ... Read more...

AMD Confirms Obligatory BIOS Support for New AMD Athlon 64

Thu, 24 Mar 2005 17:00:22 +0000

Representatives for Advanced Micro Devices confirmed on Wednesday that to support AMD Athlon 64 processors revision E will need a BIOS update. The company did not reckon any other obstacles to support the upcoming central... Read more...

Phoenix extends Bios to enhance network security

Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:51:47 +0000

Bios maker Phoenix has launched a security software utility that allows network administrators to authenticate hardware devices. Phoenix Technologies, the company behind the Phoenix Bios firmware that is installed in about 80... Read more...

Writing an end to the bio of BIOS

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:35:57 +0000

Intel and Microsoft are gearing up to move toward the first major overhaul of the innermost workings of the personal computer--the boundary where software and hardware meet--during 2004. The companies will begin promoting a technology... Read more...

Phoenix toughens up BIOS

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:01:45 +0000

The software that sits between the operating system and a PC's hardware hasn't changed much in decades. Now, Phoenix Technologies wants to introduce greater security, usability and copy protection. Phoenix, one of the biggest makers... Read more...

Microsoft moves to integrate Windows with BIOS

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 03 Oct 2003 20:20:14 +0000

A deal with BIOS maker Phoenix Technologies would allow the operating system to directly control hardware. It also raises concerns over who controls the software in PCs . Microsoft has expanded its relationship with BIOS... Read more...

Phoenix Developing DRM-Equipped BIOS

Thu, 04 Sep 2003 16:41:40 +0000

BIOS maker Phoenix Technologies said it is currently shopping a digital-rights-enabled BIOS system to top PC OEMs, the most aggressive use of DRM technology to date. Phoenix executives said Wednesday that they've developed a prototype... Read more...

BIOS Patcher 4.00.rc7.1

Sun, 10 Aug 2003 17:36:08 +0000

BIOS Patcher is a kind of software that can find and fix errors in your system BIOS (only AWARD BIOS for now) and also it can add or open new features, i.e. some features that... Read more...

PC Thieves: the BIOS has you

Tue, 27 May 2003 08:32:44 +0000

Pilfering a PC may become less appealing, if software makers Phoenix Technologies and Softex have their way. The two companies are teaming to offer software called TheftGuard, which is designed to be anchored... Read more...

Nforce 2 BIOS problems confirmed and fixed

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 12 Mar 2003 01:33:00 +0000

A SHORT WHILE AGO WE REPORTED that there could be a serious problem with Nforce 2 chipset motherboards. No sooner had the article gone up than Nvidia got in contact wanting to know all of... Read more...

Intel To Brand BIOS Screens with "Intel Inside" Logo

Tue, 04 Feb 2003 12:28:55 +0000

In 2003, the Intel Inside Program's label requirements will be extended to the system start up screen. Your Qualifying Licensee Products (QLP) must display the Intel Inside logo each time the user boots-up their system.... Read more...

A Linux-based BIOS

Sun, 16 Jun 2002 04:02:02 +0000

At the recently held Computex show in Taipei Phoenix Technology Company introduced its new FirstBIOS based on Linux. Among the major advantages of this product, they mentioned such things as PC wake from different standby... Read more...

MSI bios updates

Mon, 15 Apr 2002 17:12:26 +0000

Thanks again Jace - top job. There are new Bioses available for the MSI K7T series motheboards including the K7T Pro, Pro2a, Turbo, Turbo Limited, Turbo2, etc. Update Description -Support... Read more...

Asus has released a BETA BIOS for the A7V-133/A7V133-C

Sun, 24 Feb 2002 04:55:57 +0000

Thanks modem for sending this in. modem writes: "I found this earlier today while doing my weekly new driver update hunt. For all of the Asus A7V133/A7V133-C fans, Asus has released a... Read more...

New BIOS Updates

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 09 Feb 2002 20:42:10 +0000

Thanks JC for informing us that MSI has new Bios updates for K7T Pro2-RU & K7T Pro2 "I downloaded this Bios for my K7TPro2-RU a couple days ago from the MSI Germany... Read more...

New MSI K7T266 Pro2 BIOS

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 07 Dec 2001 09:57:26 +0000

MSI has a new BIOS for their KT266A board. Fixed: Fixed Win98SE/ME/2000 will have ! mark after installing NEC USB 2.0 driver Don't disable on-board AC97 when install PCI... Read more...

Asus A7V133 Bios v1008_01B out

Steven Parker — Sat, 01 Dec 2001 10:46:33 +0000

Modem wanted to let Neowin know that a new beta BIOS is released for the Asus A7V133 (KT133A based) motherboard. The index file says it was built/released on November 28, 2001 with a version... Read more...

New BIOS for Intel D845HV/D845WN

Thu, 22 Nov 2001 08:57:47 +0000

Thanks Activewin for this :) Intel has just released an updated BIOS for its serie of motherboards built around the i845 Chipet. Updated Intel P07 BIOS for the D845HV/D845WN motherboard includes the following... Read more...