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BIOS and CMOS
Adding personality to your PC
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We Need to Talk!
• The CPU needs some method to talk to the devices to tell them what to do
• The devices need some way to send data to, and receive data from the CPU
• We need to expand our logical model from the CPU chapter
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CPUNorthbridge RAM
EDB
Address Bus
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CPUNorthbridge RAM
EDB
Address Bus
Southbridge
keyboard
Hard Disk Drive
Video Card
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CPUNorthbridge RAM
EDB
Address Bus
Southbridge
KeyboardController
Hard Disk DriveVideo Card
Chipset
Chipset
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845 Chipset
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925 Chipset
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Keyboard
• How we communicate with the keyboard
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Problems
• Different motherboards have different keyboard controllers
• We need specific code to talk to the controller
• We need a place to store this specific programming and the programming for other devices (optical drive, floppy, etc.)
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Solution
• Use a ROM chip• Does not “forget” when power is removed,
like RAM does• Specific to motherboard and devices on it• Read only, code does not change• Can hold lots of programs, like a “chapter
book”• Called “firmware”
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BIOBIOS
IBM’s BIOS
Patent “fence” around BIOS
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Making a ROM chip
• We “burn” the code into the chip:
1 0
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System ROM
• Holds all the support programming for basic devices
• Is given a specific address space, or range of memory addresses for its code
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The First Megabyte
• Upper Memory
• Conventional Memory
Address 0
640 KB
1 MB
(384 KB)
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Basic Hardware
• CPU• Mouse• Keyboard• Video card• RAM• Network card
• Sound Card• Floppy drive• Hard Disk drive• Zip drive• USB ports• CD-ROM drive
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Basic Hardware
• CPU• Mouse• Keyboard• Video card• RAM• Network card
• Sound Card• Floppy drive• Hard Disk drive• Zip drive• USB ports• CD-ROM drive
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Stored Information
• Stores access/write code for keyboard• Stores access/write code for system
speaker• Stores access/write code for other chips
(functions) on motherboard• Does not change (more on this in a
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CMOS
• Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor – how it was made
• Stores specific information about your system:– Amount of RAM present– Type of hard disk drive– Date and Time
• Needs battery power to “remember” when power is off
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CPUNorthbridge RAM
EDB
Address Bus
Southbridge
KeyboardController
Mouse Video Card
Chipset
BIOSAndCMOS
Chipset
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BIOS
• All devices need BIOS code to interoperate with CPU. Some is stored directly in System BIOS chip, most is stored elsewhere.
• One of the functions of BIOS is to provide the CMOS Setup Utility, or Setup, which allows us to change CMOS data.
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BIOS information CMOS
information
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CMOS or Setup
• Option to use this program is early in the boot cycle – long before system loads Operating System
• Different key(s) to enter different Setups• You should only get to Setup on purpose• Program stored in BIOS, but only edits
data in CMOS• First CMOS was set of switches!
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Who makes BIOS?
• Award Software• Phoenix Technologies• AMI – American Megatrends Inc.• They write BIOS with lots of options;
motherboard maker picks sections to be used
• Long gone are IBM’s patents on BIOS
Same parent company
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Setup
• Lots of screens and subscreens• You don’t need to know about all settings
on all screens• Motherboard book is mildly helpful on
some options• You should know generally where things
can be found
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Date and Time and …
• Usually on the first screen, or first menu choice
• Lets you set Date, Time, floppy present (will autodetect it), memory count, hard drive(s) present (again, autodetected)
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Here is where you set the boot
order
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When adding a modem, you might want to turn both of
these off.
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Old CMOS
• Stored the hard drive “geometry” which was NOT found on the drive’s label
• Old systems had a nasty habit of loosing CMOS data and requiring a trip to the repair shop to get fixed
• I spent many an hour hacking drive geometry values by trial and error
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New CMOS
• Did you notice the “High Performance” option?
• Did you see the “Setup Defaults” option?• BIOS can “talk” to hard disk drive and get
all the information it needs.• About the worst that happens today is the
need to reset date and time.
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Chip Evolution
• EPROM – Erasable Programmable ROM; used ultra-violet light (sunlight) to erase
• EEPROM – Electrically Erasable – what we use today
• Flash ROM – another name for EEPROM• NVRAM – Non-volatile RAM. Really not
so, still needs battery power
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The Three-In-One
• We have BIOS that stores code and access program to CMOS
• We have CMOS that stores changeable information about our system
• We have RTC (Real Time Clock) that keeps track of date and time
• All three are now rolled into one chip
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Easy way to spot this chip is by the
shinny label
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About that Battery
• Should last 5 to 10 years• You can find them at Savon even• If your system forgets date and/or time, it’s
time to replace the battery• Beware the evil ESD!
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More Battery
• Sometimes we WANT to reset CMOS:– A forgotten password– Too aggressive overclocking– Incorrect low-level settings on some screen
• Either move the jumper, or pull the battery• Do either for about 10 seconds• If you are to pull battery, make sure you
unplug system too
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More BIOS
• Option ROM – put a BIOS chip on the card/device– Video is most common for this– SCSI cards– Network cards have socket, chip is extra
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Software Solutions
• Device Drivers – very flexible, but must wait until OS starts loading.
• CONFIG.SYS – DOS utility program, runs before DOS really gets going
• SYSTEM.INI – Introduced with Win 1 to 3, another text file. Win 9x won’t boot without it; XP will
• The Registry – Introduced with Win 95. Binary database of information
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Software Help
• Control Panel – Graphical “window” to the Registry
• Device Manager – Another graphical path to the Registry
• REGISTRY EDITOR(s):– REGEDIT– REGEDT32
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Power On Self Test (POST)
• First thing to run when you start up computer
• Waits for “power good” signal from power supply, then starts the CPU
• FFFA is (almost) at the end of 1st meg of RAM, contains a “Jump Immediate” instruction to beginning of POST code
• CPU instructs our “short list” items to check themselves out with own diagnostic
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POST, cont.
• Until video card is done, we are “in the dark” and could get “Beep Codes” for errors. Don’t memorize them. Constant beeping is either memory or video error.
• Once the video card has checked itself out, we could get error codes/messages on the monitor as other devices report status
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POST, cont.
• About this time, we get the option to run CMOS Setup routine
• POST is done; control passes to “Bootstrap Loader.” It’s job is to find OS.– Looks for the “Boot Sector” on floppy/hard
disk drive(s)• A disk with functional OS is called a
“Bootable Disk” or “System Disk.” Could be floppy (DOS), CD or hard disk drive.
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Boot Order
• Somewhere in CMOS Setup is the ability to set the boot order, or the order in which the bootstrap loader will search for an OS.
• I set my systems to: CD/DVD drive, floppy and then hard disk drive.
• Usually, if a bootable CD is found, you get the option to boot from it (by pressing any key). Do nothing and loader continues the search for an OS.
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POST Cards
• Can be purchased; probably about extinct now.
• I could have used one about three times in my career so far.
• If another (known good) video card and/or memory won’t boot, motherboard is toasted.
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Flashing the BIOS• Mess up the process and motherboard is
history• Won’t allow you to swap 486 for P4 chip• Most processes require a bootable floppy
with special program and very odd command line
• Some newer motherboards include Flash as Setup option.
• I would rather eat a bug
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UEFI
• At least Sandy Bridge processor and current motherboard.
• 32/64-bit replacement for BIOS• Allows use of 3 TB+ drives without
partitioning it down• Good topic for an Internet search some
rainy Saturday