What exactly is bios?

[Mcdoorknob]

Hello everyone, I have decided to ask a question here that I never really understood. I have heard lots of things about "bios flashback" and new versions of bios. Could somebody please explain to me what the bios is and what it does. I put it in this forum because I know that it has something to do with motherboards.

thanks for any help that you could give me!

[orangecat]

Basic Input and Output System. Its basically like a control panel but not for Windows its for your computer.

[Andi]

it's basically a programmable checklist that controls and looks for stuff connected do the mainboard

 

flashing a bios means uploading a differnet version to the bioschip. Could be a newer version with more stuff or an old one to fix a problem.

[Atomicjango]

Bios Is basically a Operating system for your Motherboard. It controls setting for basic hardware functions like storage devices or fan control. And bios flashback is just a tool that allows u to get an updated bios for your motherboard to get more features or correct some bugs. Which can fix things like ram settings, updated list of supported cpus, and fix instability issues when overclocking.

[physX]

Basic Input and Output System

 

It recognize all the parts of your system and put them together,, :: it is more complicated than this 

[mgsstar]

BIOS is basically a thing for your system which manages all your parts and it is what makes your system run and work with each other. BIOS updates are usually updates to update this system in order make the motherboard recognize and be able to run the newer generation cpus.

[Quaker]

BIOS stands for Basic Input/Ouput System. It's the base level machine code that controls the actual hardware in your system. In that way, software, such as Windows, needs to only concern itself with, for example, sending a file to the hard drive, without getting into the nuts & bolts of what particular controller, etc, is used on the particular motherboard.

[joelthezombie15]

kinda what everyone else said.