PC Hardware A Beginner’s Guide

ports, and the Intel Accelerated Hub, which features a 266MB per second bus speed between memory and peripherals.  810e This ch ...

Chapter 5: Chipsets and Controllers^101 Non-Intel Chipsets Besides Intel, ALi (Acer Labs), Via Technologies, and Silicon Integra ...

for nearly all sockets since the Socket 7 and feature a shared memory architecture and UMA (Unified Memory Architecture)type of ...

their more recent chipsets concentrate on the Cyrix and AMD processors. VIA now pro- duces the Cyrix processor, having purchased ...

(^104) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide performance, energy efficient chipset that supports AGP, PCI, and ISA bus on desktop and ...

IDE controllers). Because the south bridge was a PCI device and the PCI controller at the same time, some efficiency (and one PC ...

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CHAPTER 6 The BIOS and the Boot Process 107 Copyright 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Click Here for Terms of Use. ...

(^108) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide W hen you flick, push, or pull on the power to your PC, there are absolutely no instructi ...

Chapter 6: The BIOS and the Boot Process^109 An Introduction to the BIOS A PC’s BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) includes the pr ...

(^110) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide System Boot Sequence The most important action of the BIOS is to boot the PC. The process ...

Chapter 6: The BIOS and the Boot Process^111 Any device BIOS routines are started. The video card’s BIOS starts first to turn o ...

If the BIOS supports Plug and Play (PnP) technology, any PnP devices detected are configured. Information on each PnP device is ...

Chapter 6: The BIOS and the Boot Process^113 Depending on the cause of the error, the POST routine uses an established beep pat- ...

(^114) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide The Phoenix BIOS POST error bee pcodes, listed in Table 6-4, are more com plicated than m ...

BIOS Startup Screen If the POST completes successfully, the BIOS loads the video adapter’s BIOS, which makes the PC display avai ...

the key to upgrading the BIOS. The BIOS manufacturer should have information on its Web site to help you find the configuration ...

Like all other BIOS displays, the information included depends on the manufacturer and version of the BIOS. The following lists ...

addresses (see Chapter 13 for more information on system resources). The display shows the resources assigned to each serial por ...

Chapter 6: The BIOS and the Boot Process^119 As shown in Figure 6-5, the EPROM chi phas a quartz crystal window on the face of t ...