Suppliers of system software
All PC's have instructions in ROM chips on the system board. The ROM chips are supplied by specialty software
manufacturers, who make BIOS chips. The primary suppliers are:
l Phoenix
l AMI (American Megatrends)
l Award
You can read the name of your BIOS chip during start-up. You can also see the chip on the system board. Here is a picture
(slightly blurred) of an Award ROM chip:
Here is an AMI chip with BIOS and start-up instructions:
The
All PC's have instructions in ROM chips on the system board. The ROM chips are supplied by specialty software
manufacturers, who make BIOS chips. The primary suppliers are:
l Phoenix
l AMI (American Megatrends)
l Award
You can read the name of your BIOS chip during start-up. You can also see the chip on the system board. Here is a picture
(slightly blurred) of an Award ROM chip:
The
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