CHAPTER 7BIOS and CMOS
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• Objective 7.01 Boot Process and POST
• Objective 7.03 System BIOS and CMOS Setup Utility
In the seconds between the time that you press the power button and the desktop appears on your monitor, your PC goes through a series of ordered steps called the boot process. The vital components that drive the boot process are the system ROM, the system basic input/output system (BIOS), and the complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) memory chip and setup utility. The system ROM—for read-only memory—is the special memory chip that stores the BIOS programs. System BIOS is the collective ...
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