What is it used for? How do I access it?
PLZ DONT COPY-PASTE FROM WIKIPEDIA. I DIDNT UNDERSTAND IT!
2007-05-13 14:25:26 · 7 answers · asked by james 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
It's the very basic piece that gives you computer its inital smarts sort to speak. Basic I/O System. What it does is looks at the base hardware and tells the CPU how to get started, sort of a kick in the butt.
You get to it from your first screen that shows up when you turn on the computer usually by hitting a function key or the delete key. F2, or Delete are the most common.
Want more details let me know.
2007-05-13 14:33:13 · answer #1 · answered by pappy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BIOS (basic input output system)
program which is permanently located in a computer's memory and is activated at startup and it stores a set of instructions which tells your PC how to handle input from the keyboard or the mouse & output to the printer or monitor.
It is located in one or two chips, usually on the motherboard of the computer.
You can access it by restarting your computer , and pressing delete button on your keyboard when testing memory ..
I mean when the info. ofthe main board shows up ...
And if you didn't know how to do that , just keep pressing del again and again till the bios shows up , but watch out not to mess up the bios , this could really harm your computer ..
2007-05-13 21:45:13 · answer #2 · answered by EM 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BIOS is an acronym. It stands for Basic Input/Output System. It is a VERY low level set of instructions for the computer chip to get information from the hard drive and from the memory chips in the computer.
2007-05-13 21:30:52 · answer #3 · answered by howtoms 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BIOS acronym is as they said; although trade papers and talks use FlashROM and other similar terms. It is the very basic denominator software that can nearly analog to "getting your foot in the door" for much more advanced systems like DOS, Windows, Mac OS, UNIX/Linux to run, then after those advanced system boots up it retreats to serve as programmatic interface for the hardware within that computer.
As one of my books wrote, BIOS concept came about as sophiscated CP/M came about in the end of '70s requiring stocked CP/M running on customized Z80 machines.
2007-05-13 21:43:40 · answer #4 · answered by Andy T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's an acronym for Basic Input/Output System. The computer gets instructions from this system in order to boot up (start).
2007-05-13 22:00:01 · answer #5 · answered by Jobs_141 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BIOS = Basic Input Output System
It configures your hardware devices.
It tests them when you start yor computer and then loads the operating system.
2007-05-13 21:30:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
BIOS is basic/input out system. First thing system does it after checking POST it goes to BIOS and check status of hardware. if every hardware device in system shows a green status system load Windows boot files.
2007-05-13 21:30:58 · answer #7 · answered by steven25t 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋