Old School Monday: Knowing Your BIOS
Old School Monday: Knowing Your BIOS
Posted 05/23/2011 at 4:12pm
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Last weeks Old School Monday featured a 1997 white paper explaining RAM - and since it was so popular, we thought we'd give you another one. Up this week, Knowing Your BIOS--courtesy of the June 1997 issue of Boot. It's actually hard to believe that an aspect of computing could have changed so little in 14 years, but the ancient BIOS is finally on the way out. So, read on for a historical perspective on the ins and outs of BIOS and PC performance and stay tuned, next week we'll cover magnets. (How do they work?)
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mt_mike
May 24, 2011 at 6:26am
I'm refurbing one of my old PCs that I gave to someone several years ago and recently got back - similar AwardBIOS as the article. It's a 1900+ Athlon XP rig, 2 GB RAM. I'm putting in a small SSD with an IDE-SATA adapter and it's made the box a very usable Win7 system.
Matarsak
May 24, 2011 at 5:03am
Three comments, three spambots. Is anyone even watching these things?
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