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Booting Process

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Booting process

The starting of the computer‘s operating system and identifying its


hardware and software components that all work together to provide
computing activities. This explains what happens between the time that
the user powers up the computer and when the graphical user interface
appear on the desktop.

In order for a computer to successfully boot, its BIOS (Basic Input Output
system), operating system and hardware components must all be working
properly, failure of any one of these three elements will likely results in a
failed boot sequence.

When the computer’s power is first turned on, the CPU initilaizes itself,
which is triggered by a series of clock ticks generated by the system
clock. Part of the CPU’s initialization is to look to the system’s ROM BOIS
for its first instruction in the start up program.

ROM BIOS stores the first instruction, which is the instruction to run the
power – on self test (POST), in a predetermined memory addr4esss. POST
bengind by checking the BIOS chip and then tests CMOS RAM. If the POST
does not detect a battery falure, it then continues to initialize the CPU,
Checking the inventoried hardware devices such as video card),
secondary storage devices, such as hard disk and foppy drives, ports and
other hardware devices such as the keyboard and mouse to ensure they
are functioning properly.

Once the POST has determined that all components are functioning
properly and the CPU has successfully initialized, the BOIS looks for an OS
to Load.
The BIOS looks to the CMOS chip to tell it where to find the OS and in
most PCs, the OS loads from the C drive on the Hard disk even the BOIS
has the capability to load the OS from a floppy disk, CD or ZIP drive.

The order of divers that the CMOS looks to in order yo locate the OS is
called the boot sequence, which can be changed by altering the CMOS
setup. Looking to the appropriate boot drive, the BIOS will first encounter
the boot record, which tell it where to find the beginning of the OS and
program file that will initialize the OS.

Once the OS initialize, the OS basically takes over control of the boot
processes. Now in control, the OS loads the device drivers that it needs to
control the peripheral devices, such as printer, scanner, optical drives,
mouse and keyboard.

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