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Title: Diff Between Dashboard And Bios
Post by: thewickedjester 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.

Title: Diff Between Dashboard And Bios
Post by: JakeStriker2 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.

Title: Diff Between Dashboard And Bios
Post by: joseph_hac 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.

Title: Diff Between Dashboard And Bios
Post by: antny 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??

Title: Diff Between Dashboard And Bios
Post by: Daedalus 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)