When it comes to various settings and configurations, most people picture some window filled with a bunch of buttons, check‑boxes, sliders, and the like. And there’s no one to blame – this is indeed the most convenient way to present things for configuring aspects of an OS. The same applies to hardware that can be adjusted, for example, in the BIOS Setup, where we can configure various platform parameters, or even those of our CPU, as an option.
For the average user, it generally doesn’t matter much how or where any configurations are stored, whether they are purely OS configurations or hardware configurations. Yet they do exist somewhere, right? Absolutely!
The article, originally intended as a short write‑up about a vulnerability I discovered, and then it grew into something more extensive. Today we’ll discuss with you what configuration blocks are, how they are used, who uses them, and what they contain.
All work was performed on the motherboard DANJWIMBAA0, revision A, model NJWI. This is the motherboard of the ASUS TUF Gaming A18 laptop (FA808UH). BIOS version – 310. I dare not delay you any longer.
