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Complicated question: First you want to test your equipment. As Hoghauler said, memtest or memtest+ for testing your memory.  Do a complete pass without any errors = a pass. There are some non-default settings in which you can attempt to test the areas of memory occupied by OS/drivers which are not default tested for a more thorough test, ...

Tiesto:great article but what the hell is a bios?  I am really new at building a pc from scratch, I've never done it.  this article seems geared more towards people who know these ''basic'' things.  this stuff about bios is the only thing preventing me from building a PC in the first place.  I wish there was a site that ...

Here's my laptop bios splash screen, Luckily I suppose on yer mode of thinking. My bios supports jpeg importing. but I think it sucks also that almost every oem decides to drop all the advanced settings out of firmwares. Here's the actual image I created in Paint.NET Here's a dump of the Bios running the splash