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Baby AT motherboard form factor, 75
Baby AT power supply form factor, 325
Backbone, network, 520
Backing u phard disk data, 589
Backplane-style mainboards, 72
Backu putility (Windows), 589-590
Backups, 589-591
Barreling (monitor), 378
Baseband networks, 517
BASIC programming language, 9
Batteries (portable PC), 595-596
Bee pcodes, 20, 110, 113-115
Bezel, 184
Binary, 27-30, 41-45
BIOS (Basic Input/Output System), 81, 108-109,
121-128, 621-622
BIOS bee pcodes, 113-115
BIOS chips, 118-121
BIOS error messages, 624-625
BIOS ROM, 81
BIOS ROM battery on motherboard, 126
BIOS settings, 294
BIOS startu pscreen, 115-116
BIOS upgrades, 84, 127-128, 621-622
Bit groupings, 41-42
Bit values in a byte, 43
Bitmapped fonts, 410
Bitmapped graphic, 387
Bits (binary digits), 27, 41, 134
Bits per inch (bpi), 190
Blackouts (power), 329, 602-603
Block mode transfer, 187
Blocking cache, 164
Bluetooth, 535-537
Boolean algebra, 35, 44-45, 316
Boot block, 128
Boot sequence, 108-110
Break codes (keyboard processor), 459-460
Breakout box, 565
Bridge CD, 205
Bridges (networking), 522
Broadband networks, 517
Broadcast storm, 523
Brownouts (power), 330, 602
Bubble jet printers, 405, 414
Burning in (BIOS onto chip), 118
Burst-mode memory access, 60, 136
Bus architectures, 89, 91, 104-105
Bus mastering, 226, 267, 306
Buses, 50-51, 83, 287-288, 524
Bytes, 28, 41-43, 134 C
Cable media and connectors, 484-485, 524
Cable modems, 533
Cabling
CD-ROM drive, 213
keyboard, 462-463
network, 514-520
serial, 489-490
Cache hits and misses, 159, 163
Cache levels, 160
Cache lines, 162
Cache mapping techniques, 165
Cache memory, 83, 157-167
Cache module, installing, 166-167
Cache mounts, 165-166
Caches and caching, 158-164
Campus area network (CAN), 511
Capacitive keyswitches, 460, 462
Capacitors, 36, 138, 316, 462
Carbon-contact keyswitch, 462
Case (PC).SeeSystem case
CD caddy, 212
CD (compact disc), 202-216
CD media, 207-208
CD-A (audio), 554
CD-DA (Digital Audio), 203
CD-E (Erasable), 208
CD-I (Interactive), 205
CD-PROM, 206
CD-R (Recordable), 206, 208
CD-ROM (Compact Disc-Read Only Memory),
202-205
CD-ROM drive, 208-215, 594
CD-ROM formats, 202-206
CD-ROM XA, 205
CD-RW (CD-MO) disc, 208
Celeron microprocessor, 64-65
CELP (card edge low profile) mounts, 166
Centronics connector, 434
Centronics dot matrix printers, 404
Ceramic Pin Grid Assembley (CPGA), 60
Character data (ASCII), 480-482
Characters per second (cps), 407
Chi pcree p, 131
Chipsets, 81, 84, 86-88, 92-104.See alsoCPUs
Choke points, 249
CHS (cylinder-head-sector), 186
Cleaning supplies, 586-587
Clients, 513
Clock speeds, 57, 133-134
Closed circuit, 314
Clusters (disk), 187
CMOS, 82, 120, 132, 621
CMYK colors, 417-419, 431
COAST (cache on a stick) modules, 165-167(^640) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide