Hardware & Software
Hardware & Software
Hardware Buying Guide TechSpot PC Buying Guide Buying an SSD: What to Look Out for Buying a Monitor: What to Look For Buying a Keyboard: For Work, Play, and Everything in Between Buying a Mouse: DPI, Sensors and More Buying a Graphics Card: FPS, Benchmarks and More Buying a Processor: What You Need to Know Buying a Case: Drive Bays, Form Factor and More Buying a Motherboard: Form Factor, Ports, More |
Miscellaneous Articles Are HDD Crashes on the Rise? Overclocking Intel Skylake CPUs now possible Overclocking-Friendly CPUs What Generation is My CPU Processor Reviews⁄Comparisons PC Graphics Card Showdown: NVIDIA vs. AMD Best CPUs of 2017 Best Monitors of 2017 |
BIOS Boot Keys HP⁄Compaq – Esc (starting to use F9 also) (F10 will usually access BIOS) Dell – F12 (F2 will access BIOS) Gateway⁄eMachines – F10 (moving to F12 with newer models) (F2 will access BIOS) Acer – F12 (not always) (F2 will access BIOS) Toshiba – F12 (older systems will be different) Sony – usually will boot to CD, may ask you to “Press any key to boot from CD” Asus – Esc (F2 will access BIOS) Samsung – Esc (F2 will access BIOS) Nokia – F12 (F2 will access BIOS) Lenovo – F12 (?Del wil access BIOS) |