User guide
CommPlete Series 4000 Server SBC, Model IPC-551 41
Award BIOS Setup
Chapter 5
Award BIOS Setup
5.1 Introduction
This chapter describes the function of the BIOS in managing the
features of your system and how to configure the BIOS in its Setup
Menu. The IPC-551 single-board computer is equipped with a system
BIOS chipset from Award Software Inc.
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, in turn, relies on a BIOS (Basic Input and
Output system), a program stored on a ROM (Read-only Memory)
chip, to initialize and configure your computers hardware. As the
interface between the hardware and the operating system, the BIOS
enables you to make basic changes to your systems hardware without
having to write a new operating system.
The following diagram illustrates the interlocking relationships
between the system hardware, BIOS, operating system, and an
application program:
Application Program
Operating System
BIOS
System Hardware
Figure 5-1: PC Subsystem Relationships