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1. video memory




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2. video card




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3. serial port




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4. software




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5. system bus




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6. secondary storage




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7. volatile




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8. system BIOS




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9. traces




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10. A sound port that connects to an external home theater audio system, providing digital output and the best signal quality.




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11. Chips that contain programming code and cannot be erased.




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12. Part of system BIOS that is responsible for controlling the PC when it is first turned on. Startup BIOS gives control over to the OS once it is loaded.




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13. A line on a bus that is dedicated to timing the activities of components connected to it. The system clock provides a continuous pulse that other devices use to time themselves.




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14. An ATAPI cabling method that uses a narrower and more reliable cable than the 80–conductor cable. See also parallel ATA.




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15. Memory modules on the motherboard containing microchips used to temporarily hold data and programs while the CPU processes both. Information in RAM is lost when the PC is turned off.




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16. A hard drive that has no moving parts. Also see solid state device (SSD).




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17. See motherboard.




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18. A type of port designed to make installation and configuration of I/O devices easy, providing room for as many as 127 devices daisy–chained together.





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