difference between bios and cmos

eh... F10 for compaq eigh F1 or F2 for HP... on most PCs you hit "Del"

cmos is complimentary metal oxide semiconductor methinks. bios is what you actually "see" on the monitor. you make your changes and schite and its all kept in there with that little 3.3 volt battery.

cmos physical
bios .... not physical lmao


but then again, i'm prolly wrong

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no, i'm wrong

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.... wtf? i even confused myself

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Here is a link for bios as well

<A HREF="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/B/BIOS.html" target="_new">http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/B/BIOS.html</A>

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BIOS is the program normally stored on CMOS. Compaq did things differently, putting the SETTINGS on the CMOS chip, but using a special partition on the hard drive for the GUI. GUI means Graphical User Interface.

The reason Compaq did this is so that when your drive failed and you tried to replace it, you wouldn't be able to enter BIOS to reconfigure it. Of course you could go to a technician, and he'd download the system configuration restore disk, etc, and charge you a fat fee for the 2 hours of work.

Now companies have gone 1 better and put the system restore partition on the hard drive, so that when your hard drive fails you have no recovery CD to load the new one.

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wait wait, are you insinuating that compaq made a mistake! oh compaq lord, forgive crashman, he didnt mean it. take this sacrifice to atone for his ramblings.

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Compaq: POS. Although at least it's not a DELL.

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Sorry, there was no need for that really. A terrible thing to say.

...*hangs head in shame*...


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I am so proud I could forgive you but I forgot what the topic was ...buzzzz.

What I am simply getting into the spirit of things I mean if you can't get onboard get off I always say.

Yes so proud Canada is making us all out to be Drug smokeing peace keepers I just know that is exactly what God proly wanted...........Our seat in the U.N is a little more earlthy now so wear brown slacks.

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Isn't it actually LAW that you can demand an actual restore CD? or is there some loophole that means they can do that.. It really bugs me.

I use a compaq at work, but the fact they'd partitioned a 10Gb drive into no less than FIVE separate partitions really irritated me (Why? ), so I just reformatted it.... then realised I had no 'restore' cd at all. I did have a spare win 98 CD kicking around though, so I just used that instead, but home users are unlikely to be so fortunate.

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