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| This component is used to store charges and filter signals. ____________________________ |
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The capacitors inside your power supply and monitor are large enough to store a dangerous, possibly lethal charge. |
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Although most capacitors typically “dump“ or discharge their stored charges in a few seconds, this is not always the case. When working on a computer system, keep in mind that capacitors may retain |
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Although most capacitors typically “dump“ or discharge their stored charges in a few
seconds, this is not always the case. When working on a computer system, keep in mind
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| This component “resists” or limits current flow. _____________________________ |
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Resistors are useful because they “absorb” some of the electrical current, thereby allowing precise control over the voltage entering a circuit. |
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Semiconductors obey Ohm’s Law. |
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| False----They do not obey Ohm's Law. |
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| This is one use for a quad small outline package chip. |
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| A DIP chip carrier can be used for the: |
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| BIOS, memory, and early processors. |
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| These allow the user to customize certain motherboard functions. They complete an open circuit on the motherboard, allowing new devices to be configured. |
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| Motherboards that use the CMOS setup screen in the BIOS or software to configure new devices are often referred to as this. |
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The motherboard is made of insulated layers of circuit board. Some layers carry ohms / data, while others carry voltage and grounds so that the paths do not short circuit. |
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Industry standard / Proprietary motherboards have been modified to suit the needs of a specific manufacturer. |
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| This term refers to a motherboard’s size, shape, and design characteristics. |
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| This term refers to allowing manufacturers open access to specific technology standards. |
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This popular motherboard form factor offers a single, keyed power connector; situates the memory and faster buses closer to the CPU; and integrates commonly-used ports and
connectors onto the circuit board. |
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Current CPUs fit into a ZIP / ZIF socket on the motherboard. |
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| This term means to communicate. |
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A serial / parallel interface transfers data in waves of Bytes along multiple data lines. |
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A serial / parallel interface moves data in a long line, one bit after another. |
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Data skew, cross-talk, and attenuation are problems associated with parallel data transfers. |
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| It is easier and cheaper to achieve high data transfer rates by pushing a lot of data over a serial / parallel line at high speeds. |
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| The wires on the motherboard are called __________________. |
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Bus technology moves information over data / address wires, while additional
data / address lines determine where the information is sent. |
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| Bus technology moves information over data wires, while additional address lines determine where the information is sent. |
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| The computer bus is divided into these two main categories. |
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| System bus and input/output bus |
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This bus is a parallel interface that connects the CPU to the RAM (system memory).
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| This term refers to the system bus. Its speed is calculated by doubling or quadrupling the system bus speed. |
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In a clock-doubled system, data is sent on both the rising and falling tick of the clock. |
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Isochronous data is sent in regular pulses that are controlled by the clock speed. |
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| Synchronous data is sent in regular pulses that are controlled by the clock speed. |
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The movement of high-speed data between the CPU, system memory, and the video card
(AGP slot) is coordinated by a controller chip often referred to as this. |
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Most modern system buses are 128 bits wide. |
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| Most modern system buses are 32 bits wide. |
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To reduce data degradation, the bus speed is increased for data exiting the system bus and heading for the expansion slots. |
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In/out buses allow data to be accessed from expansion cards and peripheral devices. The
data initially moves at the slower speed of the particular in/out bus, but is then cl |
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| don't know, I dont know either =( |
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| Most current expansion cards, such as sound cards, network interface cards, etc., use this bus interface to connect to the motherboard. |
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| This is the signal used by various computer components to get the attention of the CPU. |
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| This channel allows a peripheral device to access the data stored in the system memory directly without requiring the intervention of the CPU. |
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This in/out bus was created by Intel. It is most commonly identified by the white slots that connect to it on the motherboard. A typical configuration moves data at 66 MHz over a 32-bit
data pathway. |
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| Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) |
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Multiplexing is a technology that >uses flexible plastic leads for data transmission.< |
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| send more than one signal over one pin. |
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The specific in/out technologies that are supported by the chipset of a system can often be determined by the color and size of the expansion slots present on the motherboard |
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PCI transfers data synchronously / asynchronously. This means it uses a start and stop bit for separating words instead of relying on a clock tick. |
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| This company developed the PCI and AGP standards, as well as PnP. |
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| This technology permits expansion cards and peripheral devices to configure their own system resources, such as assigning DMA channels, IRQs, and memory. |
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1066 megabytes per second is equal to 1.066 gigabytes per second. |
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The AGP is not considered a bus because it is dedicated solely to moving data in and out of the graphics card. |
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| AGP offers speed, direct memory access, and these two other advantages over the PCI bus. |
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| Pipelining and sideband addressing |
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| AGP is an independent bus based on the PCI standard that connects to the system bus and is used for this type of expansion card. |
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| This new technology will provide a high-speed, scalable, serial I/O interface that is backwards compatible with existing PCI technology. |
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| This specialized slot is used to add networking connectivity to certain motherboards. |
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| This is today’s standard connector for attaching hard drives, CD drives, and DVD drives to the motherboard. |
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Today, most desktop systems use a parallel bus interface called ATA / ATX for transferring data from hard disks. |
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| This new serial technology for transferring data from hard disk storage has begun taking the place of the standard parallel ATA interface. |
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| This term refers to the ability of a device to be connected or disconnected while the computer is turned on. |
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USB allows up to 127 / 63 devices to be daisy-chained, while IEEE 1394 allows for a maximum of 127 / 63 devices. |
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| USB allows up to 127 devices to be daisy-chained, while IEEE 1394 allows for a maximum of 63 devices. |
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USB 2.0 supports a transfer rate of 12 Mb/s / 480 Mb/s. |
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Both IEEE 1394 and USB are high-speed, multi-purpose, serial / parallel buses. |
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| IEEE 1394 is known commercially as: |
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| Both IEEE 1394 and USB support this type of data transfer, permitting available bandwidth to be divided and dedicated to specific uses. |
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SCSI is an expensive, high-speed, serial / parallel data interface. |
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| This statement highlights one of the benefits of SCSI technology. |
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| The highest data transfer rate achieved using SCSI technology is 320 MB/s, compared with the 133 MB/s maximum reate achieved by Ultra ATA |
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| This is the group of intelligent controller chips that define the capabilities of a motherboard. |
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The form factor / chipset determines the following motherboard specifications: CPU type and speed; ATA transfer rates (or other mass storage data transfer specifications);
AGP support; the maximum bus speed; the motherboar |
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| Details regarding the chipset and other design features provided by specific motherboards can be found by examining these. |
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| These are the two primary controller chips of the chipset. They act like high-tech traffic cops, routing data to appropriate destinations and clocking data speeds up or down. ________________________ and ______________________. |
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| Northbridge & Southbridge |
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This controller chip routes data traveling on the specific in/out buses. It generally links together
the slower buses, and directs data heading for the CPU, AGP, or system memory to the faster system bus via the Northbridge, then the system bus. |
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| Intel uses this term to refer to their controller chips. |
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| This is a small collection of programs stored on a ROM chip that starts up the computer after electricity has been turned on. It also controls the low-level functioning of specific hardware units. |
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| This is the most common type of memory used to store the BIOS instructions for powering-up the computer. |
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Firmware / Software is the name given to instructions that are stored in ROM chips. |
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a ____ Power On Self-Test
b ____ CMOS Setup Screen
c ____ Microchip Manufacturing Process
d ____ BIOS Instructions
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All of the information stored in the BIOS, with the exception of data from the CMOS setup screen, is considered volatile / non-volatile. |
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Some expansion cards, such as video cards, have their own versions of a BIOS that is
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| This is the first BIOS routine executed on startup. It analyzes the PC components to ensure that everything is present and functioning properly. |
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If the RAMDAC encounters errors in the system, an error message will either be beeped audibly or shown visibly on screen. |
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| If the POST encounters errors in the system, an error message will either be beeped audibly or shown visibly on screen. |
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This program allows communication with the BIOS and the CMOS memory. Although it is a
graphical user interface (GUI), it is not a part of the operating system. |
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| The EEPROM chip must be flashed in order to completely erase and rewrite all of the BIOS information. However, minor changes to the BIOS added via the CMOS setup screen, such as adding a boot-up password, can be erased by removing one of these. |
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| During startup, the BIOS information from the ________ is integrated with the BIOS information from the motherboard. This helps the monitor become responsive on startup. |
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| This is another name for a peripheral device or an expansion card. |
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| These are small, easily-updated software programs that instruct adapter cards on how to identify themselves to the computer and how to interact with the other existing hardware. |
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| After the Power On Self-Test, the BIOS reads this tiny program in order to find the boot sector of the disk (HDD, CD, or floppy). |
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The boot sector on the disk contains the bootstrap routine used by the computer to load the operating system into system memory. |
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| This is located in the very first sector of any bootable floppy, HDD platter, or optical disk. It points to the location of the operating system’s startup files. |
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| Windows XP can bypass the _____ and take control of certain hardware functions. |
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Adding certain devices or upgrading certain system components can require updating the Basic Input Output System of a computer. Today, many motherboard and BIOS manufacturers |
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| This system configuration provides an additional, backup BIOS as a safety net. |
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