hey guys, just got some homework from my computer course and i was wondering if u could help out asap

Explain what the BIOS EPROM chip does on a motherboard.


Explain what EPROM is.


if anyone could help me, that would be awesome
thanks

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As ash has said you can google for the answer but ill give you a brief explanation to get you on your way

EEPROM stands for Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory. It's a long name for a small chip that holds bits of data code that can be rewritten and erased by an electrical charge, one byte at a time. EEPROM data cannot be selectively rewritten; the entire chip must be erased and rewritten to update its contents.

While Random Access Memory (RAM) loses its data every time you power down your computer, EEPROM does not require a power source to maintain its data. For this reason EEPROM is commonly used by many BIOS chips to save system settings.

Hope this is of some help.

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haha yes i know its a bit of a n00b question seeing as i could've easily googled it


thanks for the help though guys