Firmware Upgrades
Many novice computer users (and beginning system administrators) are surprised to learn that hardware such as network cards, disk drives, and motherboards come with their own software, and they require that software in order to work at all. Firmware is the term used for software that has been written into ROM (read only memory) and that accompanies a specific piece of hardware.
The BIOS Is Firmware
 | One type of firmware that most people are familiar with is the BIOS (basic input/output system) on their PCs. The BIOS is software that contains all the code necessary to run the PC's keyboard, disk drives, monitor, drivers, and other ... |
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