BIOS

B.I.O.S. Site (Basic Input / Output System) is for many an unknown, while others offered means to increase system performance and stability. This BIOS handle as the name suggests the basic operations performed by a computer. Older operating systems most operations executed through the functions provided by BIOS. Nowadays, however, modern operating systems use their own routines to perform some of those operations.
This article begins with a series dedicated to explaining each part of the BIOS options also come with advice on increasing performance and system stability.

However, the BIOS still can not miss as much as the hardware settings are made here, he represents the glue between hardware and operating system. Therefore BIOS poorly configured system can greatly slow down while the BIOS may well set it faster. Speed and system stability depends on many factors and are not always directly influenced by buying the most expensive and best ingredients. Comes to mind now that MSI K7T266 motherboard with BIOS version 1.0 was very unstable and had a notable performance. However, once the BIOS version 1.3 all problems were solved which show that very often and software matters, not just hardware.

Usually, the BIOS is structured into the following major sections:
• Standard Setup C.M.O.S;
• BIOS Features Setup (Advanced BIOS Features)
• Chipset Features Setup (Advanced Chipset Features)
• Power Management Setup;
• P.N.P / P.C.I Configuration;
• Integrated Peripherals;
• Hardware Monitor Setup;

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