Working with the BIOS/CMOS

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Important Points About BIOS and CMOS

• BIOS is a soft­ware or firmware that enables you to start the system.

• BIOS runs the pow­er-on self-test (POST) when the sys­tem starts, to ensure that all the hard­ware con­nect­ed to the sys­tem are work­ing properly.

• To enter into the BIOS, you will need to press the right key when the sys­tem is boot­ing up.

• CMOS Set­up Util­i­ty enables you to mod­i­fy the set­tings and store them in the CMOS.

• The CMOS Set­up Util­i­ty Main menu page dis­plays the dif­fer­ent BIOS options that you can change.

• Stan­dard CMOS set­up page enables you to set the basic set­tings of the system.

• Advanced BIOS Fea­tures page enables you to access the advanced func­tions of the BIOS.

• Advanced Chipset Fea­tures page enables you to access the advanced chipset fea­tures of BIOS.

• Inte­grat­ed Periph­er­als set­up page enables you to access the inte­grat­ed periph­er­al fea­tures of BIOS.

• Pow­er man­age­ment page enables you to con­trol the pow­er set­up of the system.

• PNP/PCI Con­fig­u­ra­tions page enables the sys­tem to auto­mat­i­cal­ly search for new hard­ware con­nect­ed to the system.

• PC Health Sta­tus page dis­plays the sys­tem hard­ware details to mon­i­tor the tem­per­a­ture and the sys­tem pow­er con­sump­tion.

• Super­vi­sor Pass­word is used to pro­tect the set­tings stored in the CMOS.

• Set­ting the User Pass­word allows the user to access the system.

• The CMOS clear is done when we get the error such as set date and time. The eas­i­est way to clear CMOS is with the help of jumper.

• Updat­ing the BIOS adds addi­tion­al func­tions to the BIOS and it also fix­es all the errors and bugs in the BIOS.

• FlashUp­date is a full-fea­tured and easy-to-use soft­ware update solu­tion for Win­dows developers.