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PART 1: Your BIOS or UEFI Setup

1. What key(s) must you press to enter your BIOS or UEFI Setup?

2. Within your BIOS or UEFI Setup what menu options are there?

3. Which menu option within your BIOS or UEFI Setup do you use to change the boot order?

4. What key(s) do you press to change the boot order?

PART 2: Explain differences, alterations, configurations

5. Name 4 ways that UEFI improves upon legacy BIOS.

6. What is a jumper?

7. If a disgruntled employee on his/her way out puts a power-on password and also locks you out of the BIOS setup, how can you clear the password to be able to utilize the computer again?

8. If you flash UEFI and now your computer is no longer working, is there anything you can do to correct the situation?

9. How is CMOS RAM powered when the system is unplugged?

10. In order for virtualization software to work well, where must you first enable hardware virtualization?

11. Which chip on the motherboard does Windows Bitlocker Encryption use to secure the hard drive?

12. When installing a motherboard you must use standoffs or spaces to keep the motherboard off the bottom of the case. Why is it important that the motherboard does not touch the bottom of the case?

Explanation / Answer

1. IN case of old bios, there is a definite key or a combination of keys to enter into bios setup. Like in gigabyte motherboard, " delete" is the button to enter into bios, in hp mostly esc or f10 button.

In case of UEFI bios, if you are using windows 8 or above, you can access to bios via Settings->update & Security->Recovery--> advance startup->Restart->Troubleshoot->Advance options-> uefi firmwire settings and it will restart and enter into BIOS.

2. MAIN MENU OPTIONS ARE:

MAIN, ADVANCE, PCI, BOOT, SECURITY, CHIPSET, EXIT

Each of the above menu options has many options.

3." Boot" menu option is for selecting boot order.

4. TO change the boot order we need the help of "+" and "-" key of the keyboard.

5. improvements:

UEFI has partitioning size of 9 Zettabyte which is huge

UEFI can run both in 32 bit and 64-bit option.

UEFI can help to load more than 2 OS.

UEFI also supports and enable options to boot from the traditional network which is IPV4 as well as IPV6

6. Jumper is a small plastic or metal wire system to close an electrical circuit in the computer. Its position in the hard disk can determine the master and slave disk. can be used to clear bios set up. like so many works.

7. We need to open up the desktop chasis to access the motherboard and use a jumper to clear the bios setup to its default value. Once we clear the old BIOS settings and revert back to default bios settings, we will have normal access to the bios set up.

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