Fiber channel interface, 185-186
Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI), 520
Fiber optic cable, 516, 518, 520
Fifth-generation processors, 88, 97
File Allocation Table (FAT), 191, 193
File System Properties (Windows), 310
File systems, 193-194
FireWire, 229-230, 496-498
Flash BIOS, 127-128
Flash memory card, 234-235
Flash RAM, 137
Flash ROM, 84, 119, 130-131
Flat keyboards, disadvantages of, 455
Flat shading, 273
Flat-panel displays, 21, 368-371, 389-394
Floating point operations, 49
Floppy disk construction, 196-199
Floppy disk controller (FDC), 92
Floppy disk drives, 92, 195-200, 592, 594, 627-629
Fog (3D rendering process), 273-274
Fonts, 409-411
Frame buffer, 266
FRMs (field replaceable modules), 620-638
Full-duplex parallel communications, 436, 483
G
Game port, 473
Gateways, 523
Gauss, 397
General protection fault, 150
Generators, 613-614
GIS (geographic information systems), 389
Glidepoint mouse, 472-473
Gouraud shading, 273
Graphical user interface (GUI), 464
Graphics, 270-274, 386-389
Graphics accelerators, 254-255, 267, 380
Graphics chip, 267
Graphics drivers, 269
Graphics processing unit (GPU), 260
Gray code, 181
Green Star energy standard, 396, 595, 615
Grounding (electrical), 34-35, 183, 317-319,
322, 400
H
Halftoning, 417-421, 432
Half-duplex transmission mode, 483
Hard disk controller (HDC), 92
Hard disks/drives, 168-195
air filters, 181-182
backing up, 589
bezel, 184
capacities of, 189
connectors and jumpers, 182-183
construction, 170-172
encoding methods, 179
form factors, 172
formatting, 191-193
interfaces, 184-186
logic boards, 182
maintaining, 589-592
optimizing, 591-592
partitioning, 192
performance, 189-191
read/write heads, 175-179
space requirements, 192-195
spindle motor, 173-174
storage media, 174-175
troubleshooting, 630-633
Hard memory errors, 149
Hardware, troubleshooting, 617-638
Hardware Compatibility List (HCL), 622
Head actuators, 179-180, 198-199
Head Disk Assembly (HDA), 171
Heat sink (microprocessor), 53-54
Hercules Graphics Adapter, 379
Hertz (Hz), 134, 383
Hewlett packard (HP) print process, 425-427
Hexadecimal (hex) number system, 30-31, 45
High-level formatting, 191, 200
High-voltage power supply, laser printer, 429
HMA (High Memory Area), 91, 149
Horizontal scan rate (monitor), 386
Household circuit (HC), 33
HPEC cloth, 575, 594
HPFS (High-Performance File System), 193
HP-IB (Hewlett Packard Interface Bus), 434
HPSB (High Performance Serial Bus), 229
Hubs (networking), 521-522
Humidifiers, 319 I
IBM bee pcode set, 113
IBM clones, 13
IBM computers, 13
IBM PC, 9
IBM PC AT, 9-11, 90
IBM PC AT keyboard, 454
IBM PC AT power supply form factor, 323-324
IBM PC keyboard, 454
IBM PC XT (Extended Technology), 9, 74
IBM video standard, 257
IC (integrated circuit), 46-48, 132, 433
IDE hard disk drives, 630-633
IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) interface, 185
configuration submenus, 125
controller, 92
device setu pand auto-detection, 124-125Index^643