I haven't upgraded since 2007 or so. After doing my usual ton of research, I have a questions about the availability of a separate Boot Menu outside the BIOS allowing changing boot order with entering ...

If during installation, you receive an error message The selected boot device failed, Press <Enter> to Continue then know that this error can occur when you use a USB ...

N.B.: Some laptops allow you to set the boot devices using a Windows application. Toshiba, for example, does this with some of their laptops. The application is either a standalone application or an ...

If you have encountered a black screen with a message – Reboot and Select proper Boot device, Or Insert Boot Media in Selected Boot device and press a key, you have come to the right place, as we will ...

Connecting an external hard drive to a computer before turning on the system can confuse the device when loading the operating system. When a computer hangs after the BIOS splash screen while being ...

Most modern computers use SATA hard drives because they transfer data considerably faster and are more versatile than older IDE drives. However, many modern motherboards still support IDE ribbon ...

It's easy to start panicking when your laptop suddenly refuses to boot and shows nothing but a cold, unresponsive black screen. Your mind probably flashes to what you ...

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 ...