BIOS (Binary In Out System)
BIOS
BIOS.
Software or computer programs.
No, hardware does not consist of a series of instructions. Software is what consists of a series of instructions that tells the computer how and what to do. Examples of hardware includes plugs, cables, fans, circuit boards, and drive units.
Computer software is made of the instructions that tell the computer hardware how to do something useful that people need done. Computer hardware is the physical objects (e.g. electronic, optical, mechanical) that make up the machinery and mechanism of the computer.
This would be contained in the driver.
Hardware is the equipment, everything on the computer that actually exists, everything you can see and touch. Software is the programs on the computer, it is the programming, the instructions which tell computer what to do.
The "Operating System" or OS
A computer monitor - is a piece of hardware.
Computer Software is a list of instructions that tells the computer hardware what to do. Without software hardware would be just metal, plastic that does nothing.
A combination of computer instructions and data definitions that enable computer hardware to perform computational or control functions.
Set of instructions is called a PROGRAM. And set of program is called a SOFTWARE.
To download original, up-to-date drivers for the various hardware components of your computer, please visit your manufacturers website. All name brand manufacturers websites have vast Support sections where detailed instructions are kept on how to update or reinstall drivers for any piece of hardware that initially came with your computer.
A computer needs instructions to perform a task. There are many aspects of a computer, such as all the internal parts, the peripherals, and the software components. A computer needs hardware to store and process information, and needs software instructions to do anything for us. If there was no software at all on a computer it would merely be a box of parts. There would be no software telling the computer to show information on the output, and no software to accept instructions from the input.