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OPERATING SYSTEM STARTUP AND SHUTDOWN

What a pain to have to sit and wait for your Operating System
to boot up.You push the ON switch and the computer begins
to whin,crack,etc.

Take the time to understand the process of your computer
booting up when power first begins to enter the power
supply.Knowing what happens when the computer starts
will help you to find and fix startup problems much faster.

Just exactly what happens from the very second you pushed
the ON button and the operating system boots.And when you
pushed or click on Shut Down,what takes place behind the
scenes of Windows.

FIRST...You press the power switch and electricity
flows through the power supply which converts the
Alternating Current (AC) into low voltage Direct
Current (DC).

SECOND...The Basic Input/Output System (BIOS)
is loaded into memory by a Read Only Memory (ROM)
chip and run the Power On Self Test (POST). Here is
where the computer looks for the Central Processing
Unit (CPU) Memory and the Video Card.The POST is
performed by all computers as it checks itself and looks
for all hardware it needs

THIRD...The BIOS tells the video card to begin showing
images.The POST checks the first megabyte of memory
for errors.The BIOS tell's Windows to load.You can stop
and allow the Bios to load Windows Step-By-Step to see
if there are any problems or errors with any device drivers.

FOURTH....The Device Drivers and other parts of the
Operating System are initialized.The Windows logon
screen appears.Whsould the computer freeze during this
process,you can re-boot the computer and run the step
by step boot up procedure to see if any errors appear while
the PC is loading the operating system.

FIFTH....The operating system now loads Terminate
And Stay Resident programs (TSR) such as the any
Antivirus software and the operating system is now
complete. When you are finished using your computer
you can either Shut It Down or allow it to run in the
standby mode.This allows the monitor and hard drive
to shutdown after a set period of time.

It is important to understand just what happens in the
boot process so that you can respond to in failures
that may occur.You may be in for a rough day if you
see error messages buring the boot process.

Be certain you have taken the time to create at least
two operating system startup disks should something
go wrong.You will have a bad day without this disk
should your operating system crash.

In our next article,we will discuss those all important
operating system files needed to run the computer.

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