Acnodes FPC 7915 - Manual (Page 62)

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FPC7915
15-inch touch Panel PC
Atom N270 fan less all-in-one system
4-1. INTRODUCTION
This chapter will show you the function of the BIOS in managing the features of your system.
The FPC-7915 is equipped with the BIOS for system chipset from Phoenix Award Software Inc. This
page briefly explains the function of the BIOS in managing the special features of your system. The
following pages describe how to use the BIOS for system chipset Setup menu.
Your application programs (such as word processing, spreadsheets, and games) rely on an operating
system such as DOS or OS/2 to manage such things as keyboard, monitor, disk drives, and memory.
The operating system relies on the BIOS (Basic Input and Output system), a program stored on a ROM
(Read-only Memory) chip, to initialize and configure your computer's hardware. As the interface be-
tween the hardware and the operating system, the BIOS enables you to make basic changes to your
system's hardware without having to write a new operating system.
The following diagram illustrates the interlocking relationships between the system hardware, BIOS,
operating system, and application program: