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| The original ISA 8 bit bus use the edge of an IC card with 62 connectors, and ran at 4.77 Mhz. The newer ___ bit ISA bus allowed up to ___Mhz |
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| Socket 7 allowed for ____ packaging and was inserted into the socket intself called ______, allowed the following chips : ____, ____, _____ |
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| The North bridge is for high speed devices, THe South bridge connects lower speed devices like ____, ____,_____ |
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| USB Ports, IDE Drive controllers, CMOS |
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| The Flopating point unit/coprocessor was integrated with Intel _____ |
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| Secondary FIxed Disk Controller (IDE) |
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| 8250 (1 byte),16450(2 byte), and 16550A(16 byte FIFO) are types of what type of chips |
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| - External modem is connected to an ________ serial port with 9 pin or ____ pin cable or USB port with connector. |
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| A Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART) chip is used to break down incoming bytes into bits that can be transmitted out of a ____ port |
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| can test ability of an analog modem to send and receive signals properly with an analog _________ ________ or a loopback plug. |
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| Hang up or disconnect modem |
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| Dot pitch: measured in ___ is the distance between pixels. |
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| Color Depth 1, 2 available colors |
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| Color depth 8, 256 available colors |
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| ________ Matrix LCD – display uses LCD elements, electrical current , and a grid of wires to control passage of light, has fixed resolution of pixels. |
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| _________ Matrix LCD – based on Thin Film Transistor (TFT), constantly refreshes each pixel providing consist sharp image. |
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| ______ Scan – LCD screen divided in 2. Each half of the screen is refreshed separately. Increases the resolution rate, but decreases the brightness/contrast level of the LCD. |
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| _______MB of VRAM would be required to display 1024x768 (24 bit) |
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| RS-232 is a standard that applies to ____ ports |
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ONe discrete signal can encode more than 1 bit, hence a 9600 bps modem operates at 2400 baud. |
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| ___ is the term used when 2 modems estalbish communiction with each other |
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| Your modem does not respond when you try to dial out, you try another. What is the problem? |
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| YOur modem uses COM1, and you can't dial out , what is the problem? |
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| Name 3 interfances that CD ROM drives typically have: One is SCSI.... |
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| CXD ROM drives use 3 types of connectors, one is a data calble, audio cable and_____ |
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| IN a computer with an EIDE adapter, where do you connect an ATA CD-ROM |
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| Your IDE CD ROM drive is attached to the primary IDE adapter with your hard drive. How should its jumpers be set |
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| These are related to to what kind of issues: unique ID settings, limited cable length, parity, passive and active termination. |
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| WHen you have a hardware resource conflict, it is more likely to be an IRQ conflict than an I/O conflict because.... |
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| Differential SCSI has 2 wires for each signal that is sent and can be up to 25M, how long can single ended SCSI cables be = ____ meters? |
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| Your PC has both internal and external SCSI devices connected to one SCSI host adapter. Which devices should be terminated? |
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| How many devices can connect to a typical SCSI adapter. Assume it only has one data connector. |
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| How many devices can be used on a single SCSI bus? keep in mind that the SCSI host adapter counts as a device. |
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| TorF: IN addition to I/O port addresses, SCSI adapters also use a range of ROM addresses for thehir onboard BIOS |
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| You are about to install a second IDE hard drive in a PC with 1 IDE adapter. YOur first hard drive will set to be the boot drive. HOw should the second drive be configured? (Master, secondary, slave?) |
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| YOu are installing an IDE hard drive that will be our boot drive? What are the steps? |
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| jumper properly, autodetect in CMOS, partition, high level format with /s switch. |
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1. set ID jumpers to all zeros
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All are considered FRU's except:
hard drive, system board, RAM, DMA controller, level 2 cache SIMM |
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| A static jolt of ___ volts can damage almost any PC integrated circuit |
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| A human cannot feel a static discharge as high as ____ volts |
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Satic electricity thrives in which type of enviornment.
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| A CRT's grid voltage can be as high as ____ V |
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| A CRT's grid voltage can be as high as ____ V |
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| ON power supplies the wire attached to pint 1 is usually ____ or ____ (colors) |
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| If the voltage on pin 1 of the power supply is not in the range of ___ volts, the PC will not boot |
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| Resistance is measured in OHMS while Current is measured in AMPS, Capacitance is measured in _______ |
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| Type ___ PC cards are the thinnest of the PC cards |
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CRTL-ALT-ENTER or DELETE or F_/F__ |
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| You get a phatonom directory because of a bad floopy cable on line__ or the floppy drive is deffective |
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| Printing from a dot matrix printer is sometimes light and sometimes dark because: |
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| paper not advancing properly |
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| dot matrix printer need lub maintaenace on platen bearings, carriage rails, carriage bearings... but which component should NEVER be lubed? |
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| During the conditionigng phase a uniform charge of ___ is placed on the drum |
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| As seen from the PC side, the printer port is a ____ pin ____ parallel connector |
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| You can place an ISA device in an EISA slot T or F |
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| You can place an EISA device in an ISA slot T or F |
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WHich bus aritecture suppots 32 bit data transfers
(a) ISA
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16 bit word size, 8 bit data path
(a) 8088
(b) 80386SX
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(a) 8088
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