BIOS & CMOS Questions with Complete Correct Answers | Grade A+

northbridge is the_____& acts as the primary_____ Ans: MCC, bridge between the CPU & the rest of the computer northbridge deals with high speed interfaces such as the Ans: connection to the video card and RAM southbridge works with lower speed devices such as Ans: USB controller & hard drive controllers northbridge and soutbridge are a set called the Ans: chipset the____extends the data bus to every device on the PC Ans: chipset the CPU uses the address bus to talk to the _______ Ans: devices in the early days the keyboard connected to the external data bus via Ans: a chip called the keyboard controller the______was one of the last________to be absorbed into the chipset Ans: keyboard controller, single-function chips when you use a keyboard a______is sent to the keyboard controller and stored in______ Ans: scan code, its own register BIOS stands for Ans: basic input/output services the programs that allow the CPU to communicate with devices is called Ans: services or device drivers what devices need BIOS Ans: all of them motherboards store device support programming on a Ans: ROM chip (read only memory) ROM stores programs like______in a ______wide spreadsheet Ans: RAM, 8-bit wide first ROM chips were