Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The set of routines stored in read-only memory that enable a computer to start the operating system and to communicate with the various devices in the system, such as disk drives, keyboard, monitor, printer, and communications ports.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Living things considered collectively and in contrast with things that are not alive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- initialism computing Built-in operating system.
- initialism computing Basic input/output system.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Software includes EasyTune (monitoring, fan controls, etc.), Face-Wizard (BIOS splash screen editor), Q-Share (LAN file sharing), @BIOS (BIOS upgrade with automatic search).
OCTools 2010
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Gigabyte has an application called @BIOS which will check your current BIOS and update it automatically through windows.
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PS: I did update the BIOS, then reverted it with the appropiate Gigabyte @BIOS tool, and I also used
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If the BIOS is uptodate, attempt a socket A AMD XP 2000+ (a 2400+ could also work)
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But if you just enabled virtualization in BIOS via a restart, make sure you actually give the computer a hard shut down.
Set Up And Use XP Mode In Windows 7 | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Installed all packages, Virtualization is turned on in BIOS but when I start the VM for the first time the long progress bar makes it ALMOST to the end, before popping up a generic error message, saying something went wrong.
Set Up And Use XP Mode In Windows 7 | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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This task depends on two things; Console redirection on serial port in BIOS and console redirection in operating system.
IPMI in Ubuntu 8.04 Ante Karamati 2008
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Once your BIOS is set, you need to find and adjust a few system settings to allow you to wake up your computer using the Wake-on-LAN feature.
Access Your Computer Anytime and Save Energy with Wake-on-LAN | Lifehacker Australia 2008
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This task depends on two things; Console redirection on serial port in BIOS and console redirection in operating system.
Archive 2008-09-01 Ante Karamati 2008
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The force power off by holding down the power button is usually selected as an option in BIOS, so may be disabled in your machine.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » I Want A Hard Power Switch on My Computer 2005
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