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BIOS
BIOS stands for
Basic Input/Output System
.
BIOS-based computers, rely on a boot loader in the first sector of the disk to help get the computer booted. (
MBR
).
BIOS is unable to interpret the
partition table
in the
MBR
.
The successor of BIOS is
UEFI
.
BIOSes: AmiBIOS, Award, Phoenix …
Determining BIOS version
On
Windows
, the BIOS version can be determined for example with
systeminfo.exe
.
See also
First instruction of an x86
The value of
BIOS Version/Date
under
System Summary
in
msinfo32.exe
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