As I understand it, a bios is neither software or hardware, but I thought this section to be the best to get a reply.
From circa Windows 95 to the present day, has the relationship between the two changed? Why is/was it bad news if you lost your cmos settings. Can’t you just enter the bios and use defaults. Do the cmos batterys in newer motherboards recieve a trickle charge when the pc is in use and changing the cmos every 2 years be a non issue now. Why are there such dire warnings about entering the bios and making changes. What kind of changes would make the system un-bootable, if any.
I read, in a city newspaper an advertisement for instant on pc’s. Does this mean a change in which the bios functions, and what has happened to the POST?
Thanks.
ps. answers to this question WILL BE RATED!!
