Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The boot sector or UEFI loads the Windows Boot Manager (a file named BOOTMGR on either the system or the boot partition), accesses the Boot Configuration Data store and uses the information to load the operating system through winload.exe or winresume.exe on BIOS systems, and winload.efi and winresume.efi on UEFI systems. [2]
Microsoft Surface UEFI, the UEFI used on all Surface models made after 2015 Intel's implementation of EFI is the Intel Platform Innovation Framework , codenamed Tiano . Tiano runs on Intel's XScale , Itanium , IA-32 and x86-64 processors, and is proprietary software, although a portion of the code has been released under the BSD license or ...
The laptop was announced at the #MicrosoftEDU event by Microsoft on 2 May 2017, [1] alongside Windows 10 S and an updated version of Surface Arc Mouse that includes a large capacitive surface. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It became available for pre-order on the same day, and began shipping on 15 June 2017.
On Apple Mac computers using Intel x86-64 processor architecture, the EFI system partition is initially left blank and unused for booting into macOS. [13] [14]However, the EFI system partition is used as a staging area for firmware updates [15] and for the Microsoft Windows bootloader for Mac computers configured to boot into a Windows partition using Boot Camp.
Version 1 of the Desktop Management BIOS (DMIBIOS) specification was produced by Phoenix Technologies in or before 1996. [5] [6]Version 2.0 of the Desktop Management BIOS specification was released on March 6, 1996 by American Megatrends (AMI), Award Software, Dell, Intel, Phoenix Technologies, and SystemSoft Corporation.
Device configuration overlay (DCO) is a hidden area on many of today's hard disk drives (HDDs). Usually when information is stored in either the DCO or host protected area (HPA), it is not accessible by the BIOS (or UEFI ), OS , or the user.
In the interim period, IBM-compatible PCs—including the IBM AT—held configuration settings in battery-backed RAM and used a bootable configuration program on floppy disk, not in the ROM, to set the configuration options contained in this memory. The floppy disk was supplied with the computer, and if it was lost the system ...
The specification is central to the Operating System-directed configuration and Power Management (OSPM) system. ACPI defines hardware abstraction interfaces between the device's firmware (e.g. BIOS , UEFI ), the computer hardware components, and the operating systems .