The chipset or BIOS collection

For each time not to mention a variety of chips, located on the computer motherboard , "a variety of chips, located on the motherboard," computer scientists invented a special term. All these chips are called the chipset. The chipset is embodied individual computer. It provides instructions that allow a computer to communicate with his main devices: keyboard, mouse , network interface card, sound and video cards.
Complete chipset depends on characteristics of the computer . Some of them, for example, allow you to work with wireless networks , or complex graphics. The names of chipsets consist of strange words and numbers, therefore, to find out what chipset is installed in your computer, carefully review the documentation. (If you are interested in it at all.)
• In different PCs use different chipsets. What - it depends on the motherboard manufacturer.
• The old name of the chipset, in particular, the main chip ROM (or ROM - read-only memory) - BIOS.

BIOS - an acronym for Basic Input / Output System (basic input output system). There is a BIOS for the keyboard and mouse, BIOS for the video, BIOS for the network interface, etc. Together they constitute the chipset.

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