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| USB _____ drives are compact, easy to use, and currently hold up to 64 GB of data. |
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| Primary storage is provided by devices called memory or _____ located on the motherboard and on some adapter cards. |
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| The __________ or system timer is dedicated to timing the activities of the chips on the motherboard. |
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| A ________ bus port can be used by many different input/output devices; such as, keyboards, printers, scanners, mice, and digital cameras. |
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| A 1 or 0 in a system is called a ___. |
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| A device that is not installed directly on a motherboard is called a(n) _____ device. |
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| Data and instructions are stored on special ROM (read-only memory) chips on the motherboard and are called the _____. |
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| BIOS - basic input/output system |
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| Everything on a computer is ________. |
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| The term ______ refers to the set of instructions that directs hardware to accomplish a task. |
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| The first ATX power supplies and motherboards used a single connector called the ____ connector that had 20 pins. |
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| For an older motherboard, instead or screws you'll see ______ that keep the board from resting directly on the bottom of the computer case. |
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| The motherboard, like all other componants inside the computer case, should be _____ to the chassis. |
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| A(n) ______ is a general purpose tool that can measure several characteristics of electricity in a variety of devices. |
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| The ____ form factor was designed in 2003 for flexibility and can be used by everything from larger tower systems to those ultra-small systems that sit under a monitor. |
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| A ______ is an electronic device that can hold an electrical charge for a period of time and can smooth the uneven flow of electricity through a circuit. |
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| A ______ color or stripe down one side of a cable marks this side of the cable as pin 1. |
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| A power _____ is a box inside a computer case that supplies power to the motherboard and other installed devices. |
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| ____ is running a processor, motherboard, or video card at a higher frequency than the manufacturer recommends and is not considered a best practice. |
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| The ____ form factor is a major variation of ATX and addresses some technologies that have emerged since the original development of ATX. |
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| The fast end of hub in the Intel i800 series chipsets, which contains the graphics and memory controller, connects to the system bus and is called the hub’s ____. |
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| The slower end of the hub in the Intel i800 chipsets, called the ____, contains the I/O controller hub. |
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| Earlier Pentiums used a ____ socket, with pins aligned in uniform rows around the socket. |
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| ____ buses have been improved several times; there are currently three major categories and within each category, several variations of the bus. |
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| The most reliable way to restore settings is to keep a written record of all the changes you make to ____. |
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The ____ menu in BIOS setup allows you to configure automatic power-saving features for your system, such as suspend mode or a sleep state. |
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The ____ and the chipset determine which processors a board can support. |
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| On the motherboard, the ____ controls power to the motherboard and must be connected for the PC to power up. |
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| With any installation, remember the importance of using a ground strap (ground bracelet) to ground yourself when working inside a computer case to protect components against ____. |
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| The ____ have a lever that is used to lift the processor up and out of the socket. |
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| If the chip’s surface is dull or matted, or you can scratch off the markings with a fingernail or knife, suspect that the chip has been ____. |
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| DIMMs intended to be used in servers must be extremely reliable and use an error-checking technology called ____. |
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| RAM is divided into two categories, ____. |
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| When Windows does not have adequate memory to perform an operation, it gives a(n) “____” error or it slows down to a painful crawl. |
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| A(n) ____ gets its name because it has independent pins on opposite sides of the module. |
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| ____ memory temporarily holds data and instructions as the CPU processes them. |
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| In Windows, memory errors can cause frequent ____ errors. |
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| GPF - general protection fault |
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| When installing the RIMM, ____ on the edge of the RIMM module will help you orient it correctly in the socket. |
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| For RIMM modules, install the RIMMs beginning with bank ____. |
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| ____ is used for a memory cache and is contained within the processor housing. |
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The first sector on the disk, called the boot sector or ____ record, contains the information about how the disk is organized and the file system used. |
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| The first sector on the disk, called the boot sector or ____ record, contains the information about how the disk is organized and the file system used. |
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| External ____ is up to six times faster than USB or FireWire. |
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| ____ mode involves the CPU and is slower than DMA mode. |
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| A ____ drive has one, two, or more platters, or disks, that stack together and spin in unison inside a sealed metal housing that contains firmware to control reading and writing data to the drive and to communicate with the motherboard. |
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____ is a standard for communication between a subsystem of peripheral devices and the system bus. |
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| Each side, or surface, of one hard drive platter is called a ____. |
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The top and bottom of each disk of a magnetic hard drive have a(n) ____ that moves across the disk surface as all the disks rotate on a spindle. |
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____ is a system BIOS feature that monitors hard drive performance, disk spin up time, temperature, distance between the head and the disk, and other mechanical activities of the drive in order to predict when the drive is likely to fail. |
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| The total number of ____ on the drive determines the drive capacity. |
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| The ____-conductor IDE cable has half the number of pins as it has wires. |
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