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thewickedjester

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Diff Between Dashboard And Bios
« on: January 21, 2004, 06:43:00 AM »
Just as an addon, and correct me if I am wrong.

What the bios does is tell the Xbox what media checks to make, and what to do after the media checks are done.

I am pretty sure this is what they do, please correct me if I am wrong.
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JakeStriker2

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Diff Between Dashboard And Bios
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2004, 07:39:00 PM »
QUOTE (thewickedjester @ Jan 21 2004, 04:07 PM)
Just as an addon, and correct me if I am wrong.

What the bios does is tell the Xbox what media checks to make, and what to do after the media checks are done.

I am pretty sure this is what they do, please correct me if I am wrong.

Yep, the bios sets the RULES the xbox will follow.  It tells the operating system what it can and can't do.
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joseph_hac

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Diff Between Dashboard And Bios
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2004, 05:59:00 PM »
It does a bit more than that I think. It also does system checks and initializes the hardware before going through the dashboard boot sequence.
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antny

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Diff Between Dashboard And Bios
« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2004, 05:23:00 AM »
Whats the need for an Operating system, BIOS and Dashboard then???  they seem to perform small tasks - why not roll them all into one??

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Daedalus

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Diff Between Dashboard And Bios
« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2002, 03:56:00 AM »
Dashboard: file stored on the hd that the xbox uses to boot up. It is kinda like the xbox's operating system.

Bios: data stored on the EEPROM (either the modchip eeprom for the modchip bios or the xbox EEPROM for the xbox bios)
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