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| BIOS, Memory, and early processors |
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| What can DIP chips be used for? |
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| QSOP (Quad Small Outline Package) |
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| What component do we use as controllers on the motherboard? |
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| What physical component allows for the customization of motherboard functions? |
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| What do we call motherboards that use CMOS or BIOS to configure new devices? |
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| Which type of motherboards have been configured to meett the needs of an OEM? |
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| What term refers to a motherboard's size, shape, and design characteristics? |
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| What motherboard form factor is commonly used today with AMD and Intel processors? |
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| What two categories do we divide the computer's bus into? |
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| Which bus connects the CPU to the memory? |
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| What do we call the bus that doubles or quadruples the system bus' speed? |
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| What do we call data that is sent in pulses controlled by the clock speed? |
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| What do we call the controller that moves high speed information between the CPU, the memory and the video card? |
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| What is the most common modern expansion card port? |
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| What allows peripheral devices direct access to the memory? |
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| How does PCI transfer data in respect to the clock? |
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| Speed, DMA, Pipelining, and sideband addressing |
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| What are the four advantages of the AGP slot for video cards? |
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| What new technology provides high speed, scalable, serial I/O interface that is backward compatible with PCI technology? |
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| What slot adds networking connectivity to some motherboards? |
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| What is the common type of memory used to store the BIOS? |
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| Power on Self Test, CMOS Setup Screen, BIOS INstructions, Boot Instructions |
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| What are the four main functions of the BIOS? |
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| What do we call a buffered type of memory that sharpens the clock signal and reduces the occurances of misread data? |
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| What type of device measures the charge present in DRAM memory? |
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| What type of memory weaves two cell banks of data together? |
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| Which type of memory quad pumps data over a 16 to 18 bit channel at very high frequencies? |
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| What do we call the process of erasing a ROM chip? |
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| What describes how strongly magnetic domains resist changes. |
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| How long magnetic domains retain information. |
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| Boot Record, File System, and Root Directory |
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| What three things does a high level format configure? |
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| ADC, DSP, DAC, and Flash Memory |
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| What are the four main components on a sound card? |
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| What do we call the processor on the sound card that allows the manipulation of digital data? |
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