Information in the BIOS (Basic Input Output System) includes things such as power settings, installed memory, hardware details, clock settings, Access to various functions such as "wake on LAN". The initial function of the BIOS is to identify, test, and initialize system devices such as the video display card, hard disk, floppy disk and other hardware. This is to prepare the machine into a known state, so that software stored on compatible media can be loaded, executed, and given control of the PC
Its a "Read Only Memory" a type of memory that can only be embedded on a device, like your phone, digital camera, Bios, calculator
Bios rom
what is the role of BIOS? why is it important for it to keep its memory after the computer is switched off?
Memory address FFFF0h is the memory address always assigned to the first instruction in the ROM BIOS
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You can check your computers memory by going into the BIOS menu.
The memory address FFFF0h is always assigned to the first instruction in the ROM BIOS startup program.
Upper Memory
Upper Memory
Allocation is performed by OS while memory detection is done by BIOS.
On start up the computer fetches information from BIOS. BIOS is a ROM. After that the computer loads OS from Hard disk into the RAM.
H2 bios is a type of bios specifically made for notebooks.