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  2. System Management BIOS - Wikipedia

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    Version 1 of the Desktop Management BIOS (DMIBIOS) specification was produced by Phoenix Technologies in or before 1996. [5] [6] Version 2.0 of the Desktop Management BIOS specification was released on March 6, 1996 by American Megatrends (AMI), Award Software, Dell, Intel, Phoenix Technologies, and SystemSoft Corporation. It introduced 16-bit ...

  3. AMD 700 chipset series - Wikipedia

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    The AMD 700 chipset series (also called as AMD 7-Series Chipsets) is a set of chipsets designed by ATI for AMD Phenom processors to be sold under the AMD brand. Several members were launched in the end of 2007 and the first half of 2008, others launched throughout the rest of 2008.

  4. BIOS - Wikipedia

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    In computing, BIOS (/ ˈ b aɪ ɒ s,-oʊ s /, BY-oss, -⁠ohss; Basic Input/Output System, also known as the System BIOS, ROM BIOS, BIOS ROM or PC BIOS) is a type of firmware used to provide runtime services for operating systems and programs and to perform hardware initialization during the booting process (power-on startup). [1]

  5. UEFI - Wikipedia

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    As of UEFI 2.7, RISC-V processor bindings have been officially established for 32-, 64- and 128-bit modes. [33] Standard PC BIOS is limited to a 16-bit processor mode and 1 MB of addressable memory space, resulting from the design based on the IBM 5150 that used a 16-bit Intel 8088 processor.

  6. cFosSpeed - Wikipedia

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    cFosSpeed is a traffic shaping software often bundled with MSI motherboards for the Windows operating system. The program attaches itself as a device driver to the Windows network stack where it performs packet inspection and layer-7 protocol analysis. It has been noted as causing some issues with network connections, and can be difficult to ...

  7. CPUID - Wikipedia

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    K,M,G : binary kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte (capacity for caches, page-size for TLBs) E : entries (for TLBs; e.g. 64E = 64 entries) p : page-size (e.g. 4Kp for TLBs where each entry describes one 4 KB page , 4K/2Mp for TLBs where each entry can describe either one 4 KB page or one 2 MB hugepage)

  8. American Megatrends - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, any utility capable of reading a PC's NVRAM was able to read and to alter the password. [17] The AMI WinBIOS encrypts the stored password, using a simple substitution cipher. [19] By pressing the Delete key during power-on self-test when a prompt is displayed, the BIOS setup utility program is invoked. [17]

  9. Solid-state drive - Wikipedia

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    Prior to version 7, Microsoft Windows did not take any specific measures to support solid state drives. From Windows 7, the standard NTFS file system provides support for the TRIM command. [198] By default, Windows 7 and newer versions execute TRIM commands automatically if the device is detected to be a solid-state drive.