Inside your PC's BIOS Video
Inside your PC's BIOS Video Transcript
>>[Background music] It might look a little scary, but understanding the jargon behind your computers built-in operating system or bios, will help you get out of any boot woes. I'm Randall Bennett from cnet.com. Let's go inside your PC's bios. ^M00:00:13 [ Music ] ^M00:00:25
>>The bios is the first part of the computer's boot process that you're gonna see as a user. You'll notice when your system starts up there might be some text that's like hit delete to enter setup, or F12, or in our case F2. Press this button and you'll enter the bios of the system. Most bioses are different, but you'll know a few common characteristics across all machines. Within the bios you'll have a place to set your system time, a spot to enable and disable motherboard features, and somewhere to set your system boot order for your storage devices. Typically you'll only want to enter your systems bios when something is critically wrong with your computer. One of the most common reasons is to change your boot order of your storage devices so you can boot off of a CD. Booting off a CD is an easy way to install or reinstall an operating system like Windows, or if you want to give Linux a test drive you can download and burn many Linux live CDs that lets you test their operating system before installing it.
>>To configure the boot order we'll head into the bios and go to the boot order menu. Now you'll notice a bunch of storage devices here, we're gonna move the CD to the top. Now if your machine is already running fine and dandy and you'd like to save a few seconds off your system boot time, head back into the bios and make the hard drive the first boot device. Now if you have a CD inserted when you start your machine you'll notice that your drive won't spit up every time you start your computer.
>>Lastly we encourage you to look around your bios, but remember that if you screw something up and your machine stops working; there is usually a restore default command [Background music] that should reset you back into working order before you start playing around.
>>[Background music] Hopefully, you can get your computer working just the way you like it from start up to shut down. I'm Randall Bennett from cnet.com, see ya later. ^M00:01:50 [ Music ] ^M00:01:54
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