Uploaded September 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Without firmware you wouldn’t be able to boot up your computer. Firmware is hard coded software; it’s literally positive and negative charges in the silicon ( silicon is the stuff your computer chips are made of ). Don’t forget the hardware only works with positive and negative charges or ones and noughts. When your computer first boots up it cannot understand a programming language so without firmware or physical software that is, positive and negative charges your computer would not be able to boot up.
BIOS is firmware but it’s a class of firmware. BIOS stands for Basic Input Output System; in order for any firmware to be classed as a BIOS all it needs to do is receive basic input and pass back basic output. We’ve all heard of the main BIOS chip that you can change the configuration of on startup, however please do note there’re lots of BIOS firmware found throughout your computer. The main BIOS chip holds the basic instruction set and all those positive and negative charges get stored in memory. You can think of this BIOS chip as a basic set of instructions for your computer to understand itself, if that chip goes wrong your motherboard will be a paper weight.
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Without firmware you wouldn’t be able to boot up your computer. Firmware is hard coded software; it’s literally positive and negative charges in the silicon ( silicon is the stuff your computer chips are made of ). Don’t forget the hardware only works with positive and negative charges or ones and noughts. When your computer first boots up it cannot understand a programming language so without firmware or physical software that is, positive and negative charges your computer would not be able to boot up.
BIOS is firmware but it’s a class of firmware. BIOS stands for Basic Input Output System; in order for any firmware to be classed as a BIOS all it needs to do is receive basic input and pass back basic output. We’ve all heard of the main BIOS chip that you can change the configuration of on startup, however please do note there’re lots of BIOS firmware found throughout your computer. The main BIOS chip holds the basic instruction set and all those positive and negative charges get stored in memory. You can think of this BIOS chip as a basic set of instructions for your computer to understand itself, if that chip goes wrong your motherboard will be a paper weight.
Programming 101 course:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGC-hHIh7l5s6Spz86OT1u0A7kvQH-2B0
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