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OCR: 5-32 COM PUT FP ARCHITECTU Check Confi igura tion and Custom tion Does the compute get all its configuration data from CMOS? Early in the boot process, the computer checks CMOS to determine the amount 0 installed RAM and the types of available drives. Often however more configuration data *.. needed for the computer to properly access all available devices pue set up your screen-based dopysap In the next stage of the process the computer searches the root directory the boot for cor figuration and setup files, as shown Figure 5-32 On some computers these instructions are stored in a file called Autoexec. .bat tor Windows startup group which you can modify to customize your computing environment. FOr example you might customize the startup instructions 50 your To-do list Jocument appears eve ...