SBC81870 Intel
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Pentium
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M w/ DDR/VGA/Dual LAN
Award BIOS Setup
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4.1 Introduction
This chapter will show you the function of the BIOS in
managing the features of your system. The SBC81870 M Half
Size CPU Card is equipped with the BIOS for system chipset
from Award Software Inc. This page briefly explains the
function of the BIOS in managing the special features of your
system. The following pages describe how to use the BIOS
for system chipset Setup menu.
Your application programs (such as word processing,
spreadsheets, and games) rely on an operating system such
as DOS or OS/2 to manage such things as keyboard, monitor,
disk drives, and memory.
The operating system relies on the BIOS (Basic Input and
Output system), a program stored on a ROM (Read-only
Memory) chip, to initialize and configure your computer's
hardware. As the interface between the hardware and the
operating system, the BIOS enables you to make basic
changes to your system's hardware without having to write a
new operating system.
The following diagram illustrates the interlocking relationships
between the system hardware, BIOS, operating system, and
application program:
