Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Samsung introduced its second-gen security chip (S3FV9RR) for smartphones today. The chip, akin to Apple’s T2 and Google’s Titan M chips, is designed to secure the booting process, parts of storage, ...

This was my thought process until a few weeks ago, when I was messing around in my BIOS and had to clear the CMOS. After ...

Boot process is the process in which any SoCs takes various device configurations (trim bit, device security settings, boot vector location) and memory initialization (like FLASH/SRAM/GRAM) is done ...

If you’ve scrolled through the list of boot options offered on any PC’s BIOS, it reads like a history of storage technology. Up top we have the options to boot from disk, often a solid-state drive, ...

If you recently upgraded or changed your CPU, and your Windows 11/10 computer is not booting up, then this post will help you fix the problem. Before we start, let’s look at the possible reasons for ...

The malware is known as a bootkit, which is designed to infect a computer’s boot process before it loads the operating system. In recent years, security researchers have discovered bootkits targeting ...

SoC booting involves initial set of operations that needs to be performed once the SoC comes out of reset. It involves the initializing of SoC resources like memory configuration, clock settings etc ...