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OCR: SECTION CHAPTER 2 find the operating system, and load it into RAM. After the operating sys- tem .S loaded, the computer can understand your input, display output, run software and access your data EEPROM Where does computer store its basic hardware settings? To operate correctly, computer must have some basic information about stor- age memory and display configurations For example, your computer needs to know how much memory available so that can allocate space for al the programs you want to run. RAM goes blank when the computer power is turned off so configuration information cannot be stored there ROM would not be poof place for this information, either because i holds data on permanent basis. for example your computer stored the memory size ROM you could never ppe more memory -well, y ...