CIT165 Hardware Components - All About Motherboards
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| show | Ports developed specifically for video cards.
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| show | The partician used for booting.
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| audio/modem riser (AMR) | show 🗑
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| show | Responsible for loading the OS.
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| show | A 512-byte sector is physically the second sector on the hard drive right behind the MBR. This OS boot record contains a small program that points to a larger OS program file that is responsible for starting the OS load.
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| show | Refers to the computer bringing itself up to a working state without the user having to do anything but press the on button.
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| BootMgr | show 🗑
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| CMOS battery | show 🗑
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| show | A specification for a small expansion slot on a motherboard that accommodates a small audio, modem, or network riser card.
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| CrossFire | show 🗑
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| show | A switch on a circuit board or other device that can be set on or off to hold configuration or setup information.
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| show | The corner of the motherboard for lights and switches.
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| show | A hard boot, or cold boot, involves turning on the power with the on/off switch.
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| I/O shield | show 🗑
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| jumper | show 🗑
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| land grid array (LGA) | show 🗑
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| Master Boot Record (MBR) | show 🗑
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| North Bridge | show 🗑
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| show | The OS boot record program for Windows XP.
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| On-board ports | show 🗑
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| show | The second item in the MBR, which contains a map to the partitions on the hard drive. This table tells BIOS how many partitions the drive has, where each partition begins and ends, and which partition is used for booting (called the active partition
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| show | Buses have been improved several times. There are currently three major categories and within each category, several variations of PCI. The PCI buses are used for many types of cards, including video cards.
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| show | PCI Express uses a serial bus, which is faster than a parallel bus because it transmits data in packets similar to how an Ethernet network, USB, and FireWire transmit data. A PCIe expansion slot can provide one or more of these serial lanes.
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| show | Sockets aligned with pins aligned in uniform rows around the socket. Used in earlier Pentiums.
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| show | A password that a computer uses to control access during the boot process.
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| program file | show 🗑
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| show | A card that plugs into a motherboard and allows for expansion cards to be mounted parallel to the motherboard. Expansion cards are plugged into slots on the riser card.
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| show | See track.
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| SLI (Scalable Link Interface) | show 🗑
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| soft boot | show 🗑
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| South Bridge | show 🗑
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| show | Another term for standoffs.
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| show | Having the pins staggered over the socket to squeeze more pins into a small space.
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| standoffs | show 🗑
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| show | Another term for power-on password.
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| show | Concentric circles on a hard drive. Each track is divided into segments called sectors, and each sector can hold 512 bytes of data. The Master Boot Record (MBR), contains the master boot program'
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| show | A password enabling you to logon to the operating system.
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| wait state | show 🗑
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| zero insertion force (ZIF) sockets | show 🗑
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