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2. Instant-on - Wikipedia

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   Instant-on technology is today mostly used on laptops, netbooks, and nettops because the user can boot up one program, instead of waiting for the PC's operating system to boot. This allows a user to launch a single program, such as a movie-playing program or a web browser , without the need of the whole operating system.

3. Power-on self-test - Wikipedia

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   BIOS POST card for ISA bus BIOS POST card for PCI bus Professional BIOS POST card for PCI bus Two POST seven-segment displays integrated on a computer motherboard. The original IBM BIOS made POST diagnostic information available by outputting a number to I/O port 0x80 (a screen display was not possible with some failure modes). Both progress ...

4. BIOS - Wikipedia

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   The keyboard works even if the BIOS keyboard service is not called; keystrokes are received and placed in the 15-character type-ahead buffer maintained by BIOS.) The boot program must set up its own stack, because the size of the stack set up by BIOS is unknown and its location is likewise variable; although the boot program can investigate the ...

5. Speed up your computer now with these 6 steps - AOL

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   Step #3: Add more RAM to your hardware. RAM is a temporary memory used by your computer's operating system and helps your programs run smoothly.

6. Booting - Wikipedia

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   This memory location typically contains a jump instruction that transfers execution to the location of the firmware (UEFI or BIOS) start-up program. This program runs a power-on self-test (POST) to check and initialize required devices such as main memory ( DRAM ), the PCI bus and the PCI devices (including running embedded Option ROMs ).

7. Windows Boot Manager - Wikipedia

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   On system with BIOS firmware, the BIOS invokes MBR boot code from a hard disk drive at startup. The MBR boot code and the VBR boot code are OS-specific. In Microsoft Windows, the MBR boot code tries to find an active partition (the MBR is only 512 bytes), then executes the VBR boot code of an active partition.

8. System Mechanic Software | 30-Day Free* Trial | AOL Products

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   Once downloaded, it helps speed up slow computers by removing unnecessary software and files and fixes problems to help keep your PC stable and issue free, saving you time, money and the ...

9. Pin AOL.com to your Windows 10 Start menu - AOL Help

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   Your pinned tiles can be found in the right panel of your Start menu. Just click the tile to open up the website on Edge. Open Microsoft Edge. In the address bar, go to the AOL homepage. In the upper right, click the More icon | select Pin this page to Start. Click Yes to confirm.