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Answer by JdeBP for Is BIOS read from the BIOS chip or copied into RAM on...
This is another case where the received folk wisdom on the subject, as unfortunately exemplified by psusi's answer and indeed part of the question, is stuck in the world as it was around 1991, despite...
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Most boards used to have an option in the BIOS to configure this behavior. It was typically called shadowing, and it was usually enabled by default. I don't think many boards bother giving you the...
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When you first turn on your computer, is the fetch/execute cycle first set up to fetch instructions from the BIOS chip directly to the instruction register in the CPU or is there automatic circuitry...
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