Two other motherboard items you'll want to consider are the system BIOS ( basic input / output system ) and the expansion bus.
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This password is used at the most basic level of your computer, in what is called the BIOS ( basic input output system ).
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BIOS ( Basic Input / Output System ) is a firmware chip designed to initialise computer hardware and load a computer's operating system.
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"' } } "'will display a short line of text as if being the content of a basic input box.
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There's a program called the Basic Input-Output System, or BIOS, that's built into a chip on the motherboard.
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_Hardware : More than 90 percent of PCs with a basic input-out system ( BIOS ) built before 1996 are not Y2K compliant.
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The BIOS, or basic input output system, is the fundamental code that boots the system, connects the hard drive and manages the peripheral devices.
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The Basic Input-Output System, a program that loads into a computer each time it is turned on, is stored on such a chip.
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When you start the computer, the BIOS ( Basic Input, Output System ) looks to the CMOS for this information about the computer and its devices.
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The company added that the notebook is PC97 compliant and it provides increased manageability features including desktop management interface 2.0 basic input / output system support.
