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need to know, therefore, how to change the data in CMOS.

EXAM TIP All the details of UEFI and CMOS that you’re going to spend

many hours memorizing for the 1001 exam only apply to PCs and Linux

machines. Apple computers have EFI and CMOS, but Apple designs their

systems from the ground up as unified systems. Apple has done all the work

for you and you simply use the macOS machine.

Every PC ships with a program built into the system ROM called the

system setup utility that enables you to access and modify CMOS data. On a

completely new system, with no operating system installed, you’ll see

something like Figure 5-14. After the OS is installed, these screens

effectively disappear. I’ll show you how to access them in a little bit.

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