PC Hardware A Beginner’s Guide

B Baby AT motherboard form factor, 75 Baby AT power supply form factor, 325 Backbone, network, 520 Backing u phard disk data, ...

Coaxial (coax) cable, 515 Codecs, 561 Cold boot, 112 Color conversion, inkjet printing, 419 Color depth, 262-264, 375-377 Color ...

Diodes, 36, 317 DIP chips, 131, 138 DIP switch block, 290 DIP sockets, 81 Direct thermal printers, 433 Disc, 172 Disk cache, 158 ...

Fiber channel interface, 185-186 Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI), 520 Fiber optic cable, 516, 518, 520 Fifth-generation ...

IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), 435 IEEE 1284 standards, 435-436 IEEE 1394 (FireWire) standard, 229-23 ...

L Lands, 207 Lasers, dangers of, 438 Laser printer technologies, 424-428 Laser printer toner, 423, 426, 428, 432-433, 437-438 ...

fuzzy/blurry/scrambled, 278, 377-378 integrated with PC, 394 LCD vs. CRT, 389 maintenance, 397-399 masking, 383-384 nominal size ...

Open circuit, 314 OpenGL, 271 Optical encoding disk, 466 Optical mouse, 465, 470, 577 Optimizing a hard disk, 591-592 Optomechan ...

Power problems, protecting against, 436, 603-615 Power sags or dips, 602 Power source problems, 618 Power spikes, 601-602 Power ...

Resource error codes in Device Manager, 293-294 RF keyboards and mice, 499-500 RGB (Red Green Blue) color scheme, 270, 381, 419 ...

Surge protectors, 330 Surge suppressors, 330-331, 596, 604-607 Switchbox, parallel port printer connection, 435 Switches (networ ...

VGA (Video Graphics Array), 257, 373, 379-380, 503 VIA Cyrix processors, 61, 66, 102-104 Video BIOS, 268-269 Video bus, 238 Vide ...

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