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Firmware - 2
Firmware - 2
7. Platform Controller Family of chips that are the successor to the North
Hub (PCH) Bridge and South Bridge chipset for Intel mother-
boards
10. nonvolatile memory Storage that retains data even when powered down
(such as flash memory, hard disk, or DVD storage).
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12. UEFI (Unified Exten- Modern and 32 or 64 bit firmware programming inter-
sible Firmware Inter- face, supports large drives, additional features, and
face) more direct booting process
14. CMOS (complemen- Originally, ram that was hooked up to the RTC so
tary metal-oxide semi- it wouldn't be erased. Now refers to cmos set up a
conductor) program or system set up utility
15. system setup utility Enables you to access and update cmos data (bios,
uefi)
17. CMOS clear A jumper on the motherboard that, when set, will
revert CMOS settings to the factory defaults.
19. Ai Tweaker (Graphic The Ai Tweaker tab lets you overclock both the CPU
UEFI) and RAM. You can change the clock multiplier, clock
speeds, voltages, and more here.
20. Advanced tab (Graphi- The Advanced tab gives BIOS component info about
cal UEFI) CPUs, hard drives, and optical drives and all the built
in components, such as USB ports. In this tab, as you
drill down to each subcategory, you can configure
drive settings, enable and disable devices, and more.
21. boot options Settings that define which devices the system will
attempt to boot from and in which order
22. Secure Boot A UEFI feature that prevents a system from booting
up with drivers or an OS that are not digitally signed
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and trusted by the motherboard or computer manu-
facturer.
23. Chassis Intrusion De- Feature offered in some chassis that trips a switch
tection/Notification when the chassis is opened.
25. Trusted Platform Mod- A hardware platform for the acceleration of crypto-
ule (TPM) graphic functions and the secure storage of associ-
ated information.
26. BitLocker Drive En- Drive encryption software offered in high-end ver-
cryption sions
of Windows. BitLocker requires a special chip to vali-
date hardware status and to ensure that the comput-
er hasn't been hacked.
27. Option ROM Alternative way of telling the system how to talk to a
piece of hardware. Option ROM stores BIOS for the
card in a chip on the card itself
34. power good wire Used to wake up the CPU after the power supply has
tested for proper voltage.
35. Boot Sequence The order in which the BIOS will search devices for
an operating system to start. (4)
36. boot sector First sector on a PC hard drive or floppy disk, track
0. The boot-up software in ROM tells the computer
to load whatever program is found there. If a system
disk is read, the program in the boot record directs
the computer to the root directory to load the operat-
ing system
37. PXE (preboot execu- Tech that enables pc to boot without any local stor-
tion environment) age by retrieving an os over a network
38. bootstrap loader Segment of code in a system's BIOS that scans for
an operating system, looks specifically for a valid
boot sector, and, when one is found, hands control
over to the boot sector; then the bootstrap loader
removes itself from memory.
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