Fill in the Blanks Class2 -ITS303- Activity 1Online version Connect Internal Hardware Components by ghazwa moukaddem 1 POST Input internal BIOS physical Working hardware bootstrap storage boot BIOS RAM Internal boot drive control motherboard failures operating power beginning Computer hardware refers to the parts of a computer . There are many different kinds of hardware : hardware External Von Neumann divided a computer's hardware into 5 primary groups : CPU Output storage Permanent PC Boot Process When you first power up a PC , the machine goes through several processes before it's ready for you to use . This is called the process . Booting process means to start something from the very . The boot process is controlled by the PC's basic input - output system ( ) . PC Boot Process Summary The button activates the power supply in the PC , sending power to the and other components . The PC performs a power - on self - test ( ) . The POST is a small computer program within the that checks for hardware . The PC displays information on the attached monitor showing details about the boot process . The BIOS attempts to access the first sector of the designated as the disk The BIOS confirms there's a loader , or boot loader , in that first sector of the boot disk , and it loads that boot loader into memory ( ) . Once the boot loader is in memory , the BIOS hands over its work to the boot loader , which in turn begins loading the system into memory . When the boot loader finishes its task , it turns of the PC over to the operating system .
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