FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

TROUBLESHOOTING COMPUTER ISSUES

IDENTIFYING HARDWARE SOFTWARE NETWORK PROBLEMS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
You take over working on a system that one of your coworkers began. You notice that the system attempts to boot to the DVD-ROM drive and then to the network. How do you set the default boot device to the primary hard drive?
A
Change the default boot device in the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS)
B
Set a jumper block on the hard drive that identifies it as PRIMARY
C
Set the system boot flag on the hard disk
D
Cable the hard drive into the motherboard’s primary integrated development environment (IDE) interface
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -This boot firmware is called the basic input/output system (BIOS). This software consists of code that instructs the boot-up processes for the computer–such as loading the operating system (OS) into the random access memory (RAM) or running hardware diagnostics.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the early days of personal computers, the floppy disk was set as the first boot device and the hard disk second. Subsequently, the CD-ROM was chosen to be the first and eventually a USB drive.

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