BIOS is short for Basic Input/Output System. The BIOS is a chip in your computer that controls how the computer communicates with the hardware inside of your system. The BIOS contains all of the code required to control the many different components of your computer such as the keyboard, monitor, drives, and a number of other miscellaneous functions. The information on the BIOS is stored on a ROM chip The BIOS may be updated to fix errors, support new CPUs and hardware

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