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On a traditional BIOS, no. Some newer motherboards are starting to include a basic Linux system in their firmware, which can be used even if you have no operating system installed on your hard drive or a bootable CD.
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What provides essential operating system services?
The BIOS. The BIOS provides services to the OS and the OS provides services to the applications.
Why should a OS have applications like web browsers and mail programs?
By default, if you didnt have a webbrowser how would you browse to find a new one?
Do you have to make a bios backup in order to install an OS like windows xp?
No, to my knowledge the BIOS of a computer is not affected by the installation of any Operating System (OS). The BIOS provides some common information to the OS, so the OS does not have to know specific things that may be different from computer to computer, like the type of hard drive for example. The BIOS takes care of how the hard drive is configured so the OS does not need to worry about it.
How do you find in which drive the OS is loaded?
go into your bios
A feature of both the BIOS and the OS is?
plug and play
What does ram and rom stores?
BIOS, OS, communication protocols,...
BIOS and cm-os settings are maintained by what?
a battery in the computer
What translation the logical geometry from the system BIOS to the OS?
The BOIS is the first thing that runs when you turn on your computer. The BIOS tells the processor were to boot the OS kernel from (c:/windows/) and then the OS runs. The BIOS also lets you boot from CDs, change clock time and in some computers lets you overclock the processor (not recommended)
Which two processes can be protected by setting the BIOS password?
no body cant install OS and they will also not change bios setting
How do you browse usefully?
I used firefox and google chrome to browse the web.
Can the ps3 browse the web?
yes
Can DSi browse the web?
Yes.
