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26. The "!" error can be fixed by reinstalling the device driver with the ____________________ button in the Device Manager's Driver tab.
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27. A diagnostic troubleshooting tool in Windows is provided by the ____________________.
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28. If the incorrect driver is installed, it can be rolled back on Windows XP using the ____________________.
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29. To determine whether a device is supported on Windows XP, you can check the ____________________ or the ____________________.
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30. A driver that has been certified by Microsoft is also known as a ___________ driver.
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31. Drivers that have NOT been certified by Microsoft are known as __________ drivers.
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32. The properties for the device can be checked to see whether a device is disabled after you view a ____________________ error.
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33. After installing a driver, your system is starting to behave erratically. To revert to the previous driver, you would use ____________________.
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34. After installing a new piece of hardware, it's not recognized by Device Manager. The tool used to install the hardware is ____________________.
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Add/Remove Hardware Wizard |
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35. The mechanism that requests the CPU to stop its current function and respond to a particular device is called ____________________.
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36. If a device wants to get the CPUs attention, it lights the interrupt wires with a special pattern of ones and zeroes. These ones and zeroes are known as a(n) ________________.
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interrupt requests (IRQs) |
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37. After installing a new piece of hardware, it's not recognized by Device Manager, even after running the Add/Hardware Wizard. The problem is likely a(n) ________________.
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38. Preset combinations of I/O addresses and IRQs are in the form of ____________________ for serial devices such as a mouse or modem.
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39. Parallel devices such as printers use ____________________ ports.
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40. Two-way communication between the CPU and devices is enabled by ____________________.
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41. What sets the speed of the expansion bus?
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42. IBM established industry standards and created the clone market by enabling others to reproduce the ____________________ bus technology.
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43. I/O addressing is the process of using the ____________________ bus to communicate with devices.
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44. The Intel 8088 CPU used a wire called ____________________ to notify devices of using the address bus to specify an address in memory.
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input/output or memory (IO/MEM) wire |
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45. The ____________________ in Windows 9x/2000/XP enables a user to view the I/O address used in the PC.
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46. The ____________________ manages the requests from devices for the CPU's attention.
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47. An extension of the address bus and data bus to the expansion slots and cards is provided by the ____________________.
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48. I/O addresses and IRQs enable devices to communicate with the ____________________.
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49. The process of accessing memory directly without using the CPU is known as ____________________.
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direct memory access (DMA) |
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50. The system can run background applications without interfering with the CPU using ____________________.
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51. Direct memory access is useful for transferring data from floppy and hard drives into ____________________.
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52. To perform a DMA data transfer, a device must activate the assigned ____________________.
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53. Newer systems use a type of DMA called ____________________, which doesn't require a DMA controller.
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54. Modern hard drives take advantage of a special type of DMA that is totally automatic and invisible. It's known as ____________________.
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Ultra DMA / bus mastering |
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55. A specialized slot for video is known as ____________________.
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56. You access the Driver Rollback function via ____________________.
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57. The flexibility to coexist with other buses as well as scaled-up speed was provided by the ___________________________________ bus.
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58. Efficient data transfer is enabled by the ____________________ feature of the PCI bus.
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59. The CPU uses the ____________________ to access devices and data in RAM.
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60. System resources used by devices such as the keyboard can be viewed using the ____________________.
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61. The tool that would first be used to diagnose and troubleshoot a device that isn't working is the ____________________.
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62. The range of I/O addresses is always implied by referring to the first address known as the ____________________.
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63. Four-digit hexadecimal values starting with 0000 can represent all the ____________________ addresses.
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64. Common devices such as the hard-drive controller in the computer have preset ____________________.
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ports??? I/O addresses??? |
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65. Commands notifying the hard drive to perform a certain function are answered by the ____________________.
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66. The numbering system that provides a shorthand method for describing a series of binary values is called the ____________________ system.
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67. The PCI version that allows multiple lanes to be used together for faster throughput with a possible bandwidth of 16 GBps is ____________________.
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68. Unlike many previous expansion bus types, ____________________ functions independently of other expansion buses.
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69. Technicians should always ____________________ the PC before inserting an expansion card.
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