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No. Windows does not control the BIOS. The BIOS activates when the machine is powered on, before the operating system becomes active. This is at the hardware ma
by Vrondi 7y ago
No. Windows does not control the BIOS. The BIOS activates when the machine is powered on, before the operating system becomes active. This is at the hardware maker level, and outside the control of Windows.
- ndidi 7y agoThe article mentions how Windows reads an ACPI table, looks for a specific executable file, and willingly runs it. It's not the BIOS forcing anything to happen, Windows goes out of its way to look for an .exe that is bundled in the BIOS and then happily runs it.