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The BOIS is the first thing that runs when you turn on your computer. The BIOS tells the processor were to boot the OS kernel from (c:/windows/) and then the OS runs. The BIOS also lets you boot from CDs, change clock time and in some computers lets you overclock the processor (not recommended)

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