can we say that firmware and operating system are same
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APPARENTLY AND TECHNICALLY THEY ARE NOT THE SAME HOWEVER AT A LATER STAGE YOU CAN TREAT THEM TO BE SAME.
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you mean windows? its licence last a lifetime of the os. as far as i know as long as you use it on your computer. you can get updates for life but support i think they have restrictions
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You can't really. If you could somehow do that then you would in essence be losing your dual boot status. Keep in mind when you boot your motherboard bios is looking for bootable system files. When it looks for those files it sees two sets. That's why you get the choice and there is no way to tell your bios not to look for that and to only choose one operation system over the other.
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You should never restart while doing a firmware upgrade, it probably corrupted the CDRW bios. Check with the manufacturer and see if they have any bios recovery tools for it.
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Everytime you install something, the program will write new data in the registry system (so when you run your computer, it knows about the new program). The same thing happens when you update your program, it is simply to tell your computer that you have newer version, that is capable of more things. But,.. the information in the registry file is only read during the booting, so when there is new information, rebooting is simply telling the computer to "check it out, something is new". You can continue using the computer without rebooting, but the system will not aware of the changes, and you will not able to use the upgraded/updated features yet.\nand yeah... sometime the the system will crash because it doesn't know about the changes when it tries to run something on the program (hey don't blame me... I don't know you change it.. I assume it was like last time when I did it, so I did it the old way).
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unless you are a developer, you cannot just extract your firmware and slightly modify it!!!!.\nif you do manage to successfully extract your firmware and then you manage to modify it; without really knowing what you are doing, I can guarantee your device will not work after you apply your modified firmware.\nfirmware should be messed around with at your own risk!!
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Please make sure that you are not installing the two operating systems on the same partition.
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The only advantage I can think of is if one of the OS does something the other can not.
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When you install a new mobo its best to start a new OS. I think you're windows disc will be fine
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Hardware is the physical devices in your computer -- disk drives, modems, network cards, etc.\n\nFirmware is actually software that resides within those hardware devices, usually low level code that controls the device. It is sometimes contained in unalterable memory (ROM), but may also be in updateable memory (PROM), so that it can be updated at a later time in what are called "firmware updates".
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OEM software is the stuff that came with the computer... Original Equipment Manufacturers. Programs are usually modified slightly to show the brand name of the computer or something like that, but functionally they are exactly the same.
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Same. System restore is a function of the windows operating system...not the pc type or style
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You might want to think about reformatting your hard drive and doing a fresh install of the operating system. This is usually a last resort after all other troubleshooting is done. If the install does not work then you might be looking at a hardware problem.
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The system clock is independent of the operating system and exists on the mainboard of all computers.  A tiny battery powers it when the computer is plugged in.  \n\nNow, most modern operating systems also synch the system clock  with a time server on the internet, so that even in the event your system clock (for whatever reason) loses time, it is properly set on each boot.
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well if you gave the brand it would be more helpful also which operating system.  XP might automatically detect it
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(m)\n\nDisk Operating System (specifically) and disk operating system (generically), most often abbreviated as DOS (not to be confused with the DOS family of disk operating systems for the IBM PC compatible platform), refer to operating system software used in most computers that provides the abstraction and management of secondary storage devices and the information on them (e.g., file systems for organizing files of all sorts). Such software is referred to as a disk operating system when the storage devices it manages are made of rotating platters (such as hard disks or floppy disks).\n\nIn the early days of microcomputing, memory space was often limited, so the disk operating system was an extension of the operating system. This component was only loaded if it was needed. Otherwise, disk-access would be limited to low-level operations such as reading and writing disks at the sector-level.\n\nIn some cases, the disk operating system component (or even the operating system) was known as DOS.\n\nSometimes, a disk operating system can refer to the entire operating system if it is loaded off a disk and supports the abstraction and management of disk devices. An example is DOS/360. On the PC compatible platform, an entire family of operating systems was called DOS
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They are simply software updates. They address problems that your current operating system has.