HOW TO TURN ON THE COMPUTER

HOW TO TURN ON THE COMPUTER?
I. Turn On
As you see it is apparent from the language that you “Turn On” a computer. It is taken for granted, that all the connecting
cables between the computer, monitor, keyboard and mouse, speakers are firm and secured properly in the right place.
Just press the power button and the computer comes to life, making a beep sound. The first initial display on the
computer Monitor provides us the information on the BIOS loaded in the computer, which recalls all the hardware which
the computer tests and loads before coming to a command prompt which is c:/, or in case the computer is loaded with
Registers Fastest Lowest Volatile Highest Yes Onboard
Cost Reliability Physical
RAM Very Fast Low/ Volatile High Yes Onboard
Moderate
Floppy Disk Very Slow Low Non Volatile Low Medium A:\Internal/
& Erasable External
Hard Disk Fast 40 GB Non Volatile Very Low Yes C:\Internal
Upwards & Erasable
CD Roms Moderate 740 MB Non Volatile Very Low Medium D:\Internal/
& Erasable External
DVD Moderate 4 Gb Non Volatile Very Low Yes D:\Internal/
& Erasable External
Flash Roms Moderate 128 Mb Non Volatile Very Low Yes E:\
Upwards & Erasable External
Zip Drives low 200Mb-4GB Non Volatile Low Yes E:\
& Erasable External
Table. 1.2
Microsoft Windows Operating system, it automatically loads the same, and your log in screen shall be visible.
Presuming that we are running the Windows, we enter the password (by default it is blank) in the respective field, by
clicking the designated user, and pressing the enter Key on the keyboard, we come to the main desktop screen. This is
the platform from where we run the desired application.