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17” industrial Core 2 Duo Panel PC
4-1 Introduc tion
This chapter will show you the function of the BIOS in managing the features of your system.
The PLP-P61x Inte l® Core 2 Duo/ Core Solo Mini-ATX Mother board is equipped with the BIO S for
system chipset from Phoenix -Award Soft ware Inc. This page briefly explains the function of the BIOS
in managing the special fea tures 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 syste m such as DOS or OS/2 to manage such things as keyb oard, 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 comp uter's hardware. As the inter-
face between the hardwar e and the operating system, the BIOS enabl es you to make basic changes
to your system's hardware without having to write a new operating system.
The following diagram illustrate s the interlocking relationships between the system hardware, BIOS,
operating system, and application program: