what is a computer hardware?
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Motherboard, Hard drive etc. The internal components of your computer.\nSoftware is a program like Anti-Virus that you install into the Hardware.
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Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. Program software performs the function of the program it implements, either by directly providing instructions to the computer hardware or by serving as input to another piece of software. \nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software
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Wikipedia says: \n\nphysical memory: The computer hardware that is the primary memory system of a computer (normally RAM). The term is only used in contrast to logical memory or Virtual memory.\n\nThus your RAM chips seem to be broken.
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Hardware is the physical devices in your computer -- disk drives, modems, network cards, etc.\n\nFirmware is actually software that resides within those hardware devices, usually low level code that controls the device. It is sometimes contained in unalterable memory (ROM), but may also be in updateable memory (PROM), so that it can be updated at a later time in what are called "firmware updates".
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_hardware
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Hmmmm, I think you may have some confusion there.\nA CPU (Central Processing Unit or processor) is on your MB (motherboard) it is the main processor or brain of the PC.\nSome PC's also have video chips, sometimes called video processors inbedded as well.\nThe CPU makes the computer more than a box with a light on it.  It is the part that performs the mathematical functions of the PC.  Without it you would not be able to load Windows, a floppy or do anything on the PC.\nA video chip is a processor for the video or pictures you see on the monitor.\nHTH
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You have a processor, some memory, and some input/output devices.  The processor fetches instructions in sequence from a memory location, and modifies its internal state based on them.  The instructions also may tell it to write data out to memory, or make a call to an I/O device.  Hard drives, printers, monitors, and keyboards are all I/O devices.
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Hello Friend! \n Without hardware, software is not possible and without  software, hardware is not possible. They mutually depend on each other.
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Hardware and software.
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I would say hardware. Hardware is the technical stuff that lets the software work. Like, a cd player: The actual player is the hardware but the software plays on it. You can't play the software without the hardware. With things like computers it's the same way. Anyone can make a plastic or metal machine but if you want it to do something fancy you have to have software to put in it. And if you just have software but nothing to read it or carry out the commands, you'll get nowhere as well. I could own this computer I'm on right now but if they didn't have the software for me to download internet explorer, I wouldn't be here right now. Make sense?
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Underneath the central processing unit(CPU) if your talking about a computers Basic input/output system(BIOS)...
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CPU stands for Central Processing Unit, which is also called the Processor, though some peoploe tend to think that the Tower (or computer as a whole) whcih encases the CPU, Motherboard, etc. IS the CPU.  \n\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:\n\nA chipset is a group of integrated circuits ("chips") that are designed to work together, and are usually marketed as a single product.\n\nIn computing, the term chipset is commonly used to refer to the specialized motherboard chips on a computer or expansion card. When discussing personal computers (PCs) based on recent Intel Pentium-class systems, the term "chipset" often refers to the two main motherboard chips: the northbridge and southbridge. The manufacturer of a chipset can be, and often is, independent from the manufacturer of the motherboard. Examples of PC motherboard chipsets include NVIDIA's nForce chipset and VIA Technologies' KT800, both for AMD processors, or one of Intel's many chipsets (see, for example, [1]).\n\nThe term "chipset" was also widely used in the 1980s and 1990s for the custom audio and graphics chips in home computers, games consoles and arcade game hardware of the time. Examples include the Commodore Amiga's Original Chip Set or SEGA's System 16 chipset.\n\nComputer systems produced since the late 1980s often share commonly used chipsets, even across widely disparate computing specialties—for example, the NCR 53C9x, a low-cost chipset implementing a SCSI interface to storage devices and the like, could be found not only in Unix machines (such as the MIPS Magnum), but also in embedded devices and personal computers.\n\nThe Chipsets are usually smaller than the CPU and are located elsewhere on the motherboard.
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Computer software (or simply software) is that part of a computer system that consists of encoded information as opposed to the physical computer equipment (hardware) which is used to store and process this information. The term is roughly synonymous with computer program but is more generic in scope.\n\nThe term "software" was first used in this sense by John W. Tukey in 1957. In computer science and software engineering, computer software is all information processed by computer systems, programs and data. The concept of software was first proposed by Alan Turing in an essay.\n\nIn strict layman terms, the part of the computer which is not touch and feel is software. \n\n[In retailing, software refers to clothing. \nIn mechanical engineering, software refers to rubber gaskets and seals.]
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A system of anything is a set of things that work together. A computer hardware system would be: a processor unit, connected to a monitor (screen) or more, plus printers, storage devices (disks), modems, and so on. So, I could ask: Is the system up, which means is the computer hardware system working. A system may also mean a software (program) system, a program that runs on the hardware system. So, a word processor (like Word) is an application system (actually an application system is a bigger system, so maybe MS Office is a system) that runs on the hardware system. So, I could ask: Is the system up? which means is the software running.
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Please view this URL :\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_hardware\nYou will get a complete list, plus links to relevant sites/pages, for additional information as well.\nHappy hunting !
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you're kidding right?\n\nSoftware.\n\nHardware is everything tangible. An OS is a medium for hardware and application to communicate.
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