Sooner or later, many users have to deal with the question of how to enter the BIOS. On Windows 7 or any other system, this can come in handy when crashing and reinstalling the OSes, when the distribution is on removable media, or if some additional parameters are included. Consider the basic methods. This may be useful later on.
What is BIOS: general information
Before starting to consider how to enable BIOS on Windows 7 and make the necessary settings, let's see what this system is, why it is needed.
In simple terms, BIOS is a small device located on the motherboard, in the memory of which all the basic information about the "iron" components and the settings of the devices installed in the computer system are stored.
In addition, the BIOS setting (Windows 7 is used or any other OS) allows you to set completely different system boot sequences, obtain information about the hardware characteristics, turn on or off the devices themselves or their additional features, and even overclock the processor.
How to enter BIOS on Windows 7: standard method
Now we turn to the main problem. How to turn on BIOS on Windows 7? Yes, very simple. Any motherboard manufacturer initially embeds a BIOS chip and involves the use of special keys to enter.
Surely many owners, for example, stationary computer terminals, noticed that when the system speaker turned on after the signal that the BIOS checked all the “iron” components, you could see an inscription in the middle or at the bottom of the screen asking you to press this and that then to start the BIOS.
Most often, this is the Press Del to run Setup line (or something else like that). Thus, the question of how to turn on BIOS on Windows 7 is solved by pressing the Del key. However, depending on the manufacturer, this technique may be ineffective.
Most often this applies to laptops. Here the situation is somewhat more complicated, since the keys used differ. However, for the most part, the keys F2, F12, F1, Esc are used, less often - F3, or combinations like Ctrl + Del + Esc (or Ins), or Fn + F1. As a rule, laptops are supposed to use several basic combinations, which are indicated on the initial boot screen after an inscription suggesting that you use any key to enter the BIOS. True, this line on the screen is displayed in time for a very short time, so you should immediately pay attention to it. In principle, if the user did not have time to see which key he needs, you can reboot and press the pause button (Pause / Break key) at the time the label appears.
How to open BIOS on Windows 7 and see basic information
Now a few words about what most users simply do not know. The fact is that in any operating system from Microsoft there is a special section of information about the system. And the "seven" is no exception. Just here you can view data not only about hardware, the software environment or the operating system itself, but also get information about the BIOS. Often this may be necessary if you install a more recent BIOS firmware.
You can go to that section, of course, through the start main menu, using administrative tools or utility utilities (it all depends on the version of Windows itself), but it’s better to use a universal solution - enter the “Run” menu, called by the Win + R keys , msinfo32 command. On the home page, general information and basic data are shown.
Interestingly, the components of information about the system are constantly updated, and that is why here you can sometimes see that in front of the BIOS operating mode there is an inscription stating that it is out of date. What does it mean? It only means that you need to change the BIOS firmware to a newer one. But to do this without specific knowledge is not recommended categorically.
Instead of an afterword
Here, in fact, briefly and all about how to turn on BIOS on Windows 7. As for the settings, here you need to be extremely careful. Nevertheless, there are still some recommendations. For example, you need to set the system date and time exclusively in the BIOS, and not in the system, calling the appropriate settings from the system tray. In addition, it is in the BIOS settings that you can connect additional features like the Virtualization Technology hypervisor, as well as change the priority of devices in the Boot Sequence so that the first device can use an optical disk or a regular flash drive.
You can generally reset all parameters to the factory settings, etc. You can, of course, use "native" utilities of the motherboard manufacturer, but, as a rule, they do not allow fine-tuning BIOS. However, this is not about that now, since it is precisely the settings of the main and additional parameters that can be discussed for a long time.