Building PC HomeWork

Building PC HomeWork

1. What is BIOS and the settings you can change?

   • BIOS is the instructions in a computer which controls the input and output operations
   • The settings that you will be aloud to change is the... Date and time, Memory and The boot device.

2. Main Purpose of an operating system

   • Is a layer between the hardware and the programs that are ran.
   • It is also rapidly switching between processers so it is giving each one of them a little time slice.

3. Keywords that I had learnt

   • CMOS
     • If you take the battery out of the monitor it will restart the whole of the computer and everything will get deleted off the monitor
   • Optical disk Drive (ODD)
     • The ODD (optical disk drive) has a laser light that reads the data from the CD or DVD and transmits it to the optical dick