In this video, Sean, our Senior Support Technician at Simply NUC, will walk you through how to update the BIOS on your Intel NUC.
BIOS stands for Basic Input/Output System. It’s firmware that loads before your operating system. The BIOS performs start-up procedures that check system devices (ranging from your RAM to your hard drive to your keyboard) and load your operating system.
Here are a few reasons to perform a BIOS update:
Compatibility: An update expands compatibility and allows you to use new hardware like recently-released memory, storage drives, or CPUs.
Stability: An update improves stability. This is appropriate if you’re experiencing system crashes that you’ve traced back to your motherboard.
Optional features: An update enables optional functions of new hardware, such as Resizable BAR on graphics cards.
Security: An update addresses newly-discovered security flaws.