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BIOS stands for Basic Input Output System, and is the small program that begins your computer’s boot process. It provides an interface between the hardware and the operating system, and has been the starting block for the loading of all personal computers since the early 1970s. However, it’s time as one of the most important parts of your computer’s code may now be limited.

BIOS was designed more than forty years ago. It was designed to identify the basic hardware parts that make up your computer, and tell the operating system that would run on it, how to address them. It is the most basic program that runs on your system and without it your computer would not be able to address it’s most important parts, such as the graphics card, memory, hard discs and keyboard.

The problem is that BIOS is outdated. In the almost forty years since its creation, computing technology has moved forward a great deal. The personal computer of today is more powerful than the average university computer that would be expected to run the terminals for the whole university. This development in technology has occurred incredibly fast, and has left the BIOS looking like it came out of the dark ages. Read the rest of this entry →

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Motherboard is one of the main components of a computer and made of the printed circuit board (PCB).

The motherboard is also known as mainboard, system board, logic board or sometimes, shortened as “mobo”.

It serves as the backbone of a system because it provides all the electrical connections by which other components of the system communicate.

Aside from that, it hosts the central processing unit (CPU), and other devices. Read the rest of this entry →

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Video card is also known as graphic card, graphic adapter, display adapter or video adapter. A video card is A device (loaded circuit board) that determines the screen output or video display of the computer.

The video card is either installed directly on the mother board or in an expansion slot. The intended use determines which type to use.

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