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Ralph Mowery Ralph Mowery is offline
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Default Computer keyboard and mouse question

In article ,
says...

If not, what takes the place of the BIOS ? Maybe something like it by a
different name ? The Microsoft type computers I know of need something
in the hardware/firmware to tell the processor how to start up the hard
drive to load an operating system of some sort and where the video and
key board/mouse is.


Unified Extensible Firmware Interface.




Ok, seems to do the same thing,a program that runs to start with to get
access to the hard drive or other starting device that contains the
programs you want to use.