PC Hardware A Beginner’s Guide

Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) The configuration data for a PC is stored by the BIOS in what is calledCMOS(prono ...

processors always look for the start of the BIOS to be in this location in memory. After the processor loads the BIOS programs f ...

(^122) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide To review or modify the system setu pdata, a.k.a. the BIOS or CMOS configuration, press t ...

 DRAM Integrity Mode Indicates whether the computer has error-correcting code (ECC) memory.  EDO DRAM Speed Selection Sets the ...

(^124) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide  PCI IRQ Activated By If your computer includes the PCI bus and support, some devices ma ...

 Hard Disk Predelay Allows disk predelays from 3 to 30 seconds to be set. Typically, this option is disabled. IDE Configuration ...

(^126) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide Figure 6-6. The Password-clear jumper on a PC motherboard Password-clear jumper ROM chip ...

Chapter 6: The BIOS and the Boot Process^127 safe place for them, you may want to try it. That is, of course, if you feel it is ...

These hints may seem obvious, but you can never be too safe:
Avoid flashing your BIOS in an electrical storm.  Protect your c ...

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(^130) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide I n spite of all appearances to the contrary, computers, including personal computers, ca ...

Chapter 7: Computer Memory^131 from the PC to be reprogrammed. An EEPROM can be reprogrammed, a process calledflashing, using sp ...

(^132) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide of their sockets. Should a ROM chi pcree pout of its socket, it can cause startu p proble ...

Chapter 7: Computer Memory^133 must fast forward over the first two songs on the tape. This is calledsequentialorserial access. ...

(^134) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide The CPU’s clock isn’t really a “clock” like the cuckoo clock on the wall. The system cloc ...

Chapter 7: Computer Memory^135 CPU), RAM only requires perhaps 50 to 60ns to do its part. The significance here is that the clos ...

(^136) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide Having more RAM in the PC does not improve the overall speed of the processor, but it doe ...

Chapter 7: Computer Memory^137 Each of the different types of RAM has a specific purpose to which it is best suited:
Static RA ...

(^138) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide DRAM The most commonly referenced form of RAM isdynamic RAMorDRAM. Compared to the other ...

Chapter 7: Computer Memory^139 The earliest type of memory module was the single inline memory module (SIMM). A SIMM consists of ...