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Student's name:
Board that forms the foundation of your computer
Computer's "brain"
Name 6 typical Pentium motherboard components:
RAM speed is measured in ...
Information travels within your PC on thin metal conductors, called ...
There are three basic types of buses in a personal computer:
The PCI slot is shorter/longer than the ISA slot
Power supplies are rated in ...
UPS stands for:
The BIOS should be of a
design for easy updating.
Electrical connections into which you insert expansion cards
Chips which provides the working memory for your software
Drive letter used only if the computer has a second floppy disk drive
Circular piece of plastic covered with microscopic magnetic particles
A disk drive inside the computer can "read" the charges of the magnetic particles and
convert them to
that are stored in the computer's memory.
The actual hard disk drive is called the physical drive; each partition is called a
Capacity of Double-sided High-density (DS/HD) floppy:
The BIOS is an EEPROM chip to which the BIOS manufacturer has written program code.
This program code, called
because it represents a blend
of hardware and software, enables the computer to perform many basic functions.
EEPROM stands for:
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