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    The BIOS is firmware that runs when a computer is powered on. It identifies hardware components and loads drivers to prepare the machine for an operating system to load from a hard disk or other media. The BIOS performs tasks like testing components, activating additional BIOS chips, and providing low-level interfaces between hardware and operating systems. When a computer turns on, the BIOS checks settings, loads drivers, initializes systems, runs self-tests, displays settings, determines boot devices, and initiates loading the operating system.

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    The BIOS is firmware that runs when a computer is powered on. It identifies hardware components and loads drivers to prepare the machine for an operating system to load from a hard disk or other media. The BIOS performs tasks like testing components, activating additional BIOS chips, and providing low-level interfaces between hardware and operating systems. When a computer turns on, the BIOS checks settings, loads drivers, initializes systems, runs self-tests, displays settings, determines boot devices, and initiates loading the operating system.

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    The BIOS is firmware that runs when a computer is powered on. It identifies hardware components and loads drivers to prepare the machine for an operating system to load from a hard disk or other media. The BIOS performs tasks like testing components, activating additional BIOS chips, and providing low-level interfaces between hardware and operating systems. When a computer turns on, the BIOS checks settings, loads drivers, initializes systems, runs self-tests, displays settings, determines boot devices, and initiates loading the operating system.

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    BIOS

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    The BIOS is firmware that runs when a computer is powered on. It identifies hardware components and loads drivers to prepare the machine for an operating system to load from a hard disk or other media. The BIOS performs tasks like testing components, activating additional BIOS chips, and providing low-level interfaces between hardware and operating systems. When a computer turns on, the BIOS checks settings, loads drivers, initializes systems, runs self-tests, displays settings, determines boot devices, and initiates loading the operating system.

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    • The term is incorrectly known as Binary Input/Output System, Basic Integrated

    Operating System and occasionally Built In Operating System. BIOS refers to


    the firmware code run by an IBM PC when first powered on. The primary
    function of the BIOS is to identify and initiate component hardware (such as
    hard disk, floppy and optical disk drives). This is to prepare the machine so
    other software programs stored on various media can load, execute, and
    assume control of the PC. This process is known as booting, or booting up,
    which is short for bootstrapping.
    • BIOS can also be said to be a coded program embedded on a chip that
    recognizes and controls various devices that make up x86 personal computers.
    Among other classes of computers, the generic terms boot monitor, boot
    loader or boot ROM were commonly used. Some Sun and Macintosh PowerPC
    computers used Open Firmware for this purpose. There are a few proposed
    alternatives for Legacy BIOS in the x86 world: Extensible Firmware Interface,
    Open Firmware (used on the OLPC XO-1
    • ) and coreboot.
    • The BIOS software has a number of different roles, but its most
    important role is to load the operating system. When you turn on
    your computer and the microprocessor tries to execute its first
    instruction, it has to get that instruction from somewhere. It
    cannot get it from the operating system because the operating
    system is located on a hard disk, and the microprocessor cannot
    get to it without some instructions that tell it how. The BIOS
    provides those instructions. Some of the other common tasks
    that the BIOS performs include: A power-on self-test (POST) for
    all of the different hardware components in the system to make
    sure everything is working properly
    • Activating other BIOS chips on different cards installed in the
    computer - For example, SCSI and graphics cards often have
    their own BIOS chips.
    • Providing a set of low-level routines that the operating system
    uses to interface to different hardware devices - It is these
    routines that give the BIOS its name. They manage things like
    the keyboard, the screen, and the serial and parallel ports,
    especially when the computer is booting.
    • Managing a collection of settings for the hard disks, clock, etc.
    • The BIOS is special software that interfaces the
    major hardware components of your computer
    with the operating system. It is usually stored on a
    Flash memory chip on the motherboard, but
    sometimes the chip is another type of ROM.
    • When you turn on your computer, the BIOS does
    several things. This is its usual sequence:
    1 Check the CMOS Setup for custom settings
    2 Load the interrupt handlers and device drivers
    3 Initialize registers and power management
    4 Perform the power-on self-test (POST)
    5 Display system settings
    6 Determine which devices are bootable
    7 Initiate the bootstrap sequence

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