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Computer Hardware

Computer hardware is a general term used to refer to all the physical parts of a computer. Internal hardware devices include hard drives and motherboards, while external hardware devices include monitors, mice, keyboards, and printers.

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How can you connect your computer to a TV or television screen?

You would need either a S-Video, or HDMI out on the computer or a RGB or DVI in on the TV. If you have neither of these you can purchase a graphics card with HDMI out relatively cheap. Once installed you simply connect the cable. Anything less that HDMI/DVI will be hard to read as the resolution will be very low.

When troubleshooting a computer hardware problem which tool might help you?

Some troubleshooting tools for Windows are Microsoft Fix It Solution Center and Windows Error Lookup tool or WELT. Two others are WinAudit and Joeware Utilities. These tools are all free to use.

What is online output system?

An online system is a system that is connected to the Internet. An offline system would be a system that is disconnected from the Internet.

What is the price for a compact disc?

It would depend on what KIND of CD you want to make. The blank CD itself is the least expensive part; purchased in bulk, they go for 15-20 cents apiece. Assuming you already have a CD/DVD burner and software in your computer (most machines manufactured in the last 10 years include these), you can create CDs of document, picture, music or software files for no additional cost.

If you're asking about producing a music CD as a recording of yourself or your band, the cost escalates. You can use a computer as a digital audio workstation (DAW).

If you just want to record yourself, all you may need is a USB microphone and the software. Condenser mics with USB outputs are available from most musical instrument vendors (Check out: American Musical Supply, Full Compass, Musicians' Friend, Sweetwater, zZounds, Music 123) For the software, Audacity is a decent first choice and it can be downloaded for free.

If you also need to have a second input for a guitar or keyboard, there are small USB/Firewire preamp-interface units with 2 inputs (such as the PreSonus Aspire) also available rather inexpensively from the above vendors.

You will also want a good pair of headphones and some speakers that are of better quality than those provided with most computer systems. The above vendors often sell packages that include the interface, a good microphone and the speakers.

If you need to record an entire band, you will need a somewhat more sophisticated system. Professional software (Cakewalk, Sonar, SoundForge, ProTools etc.) which includes mastering (post-recording) software to put the finishing touches on your recording. Pro software also allows for plug-ins to add any number of effects, loops and/or instruments (as you can afford them).

You will also a better interface (with at least 8 inputs) or, possibly, more than one.

Whichever route you need to go, plug in your microphones, connect the interface to a USB or Firewire port and spend some time learning how to use the software. There's lots of on-line help about how to get the most out of your recording rig. Once you have something listenable, You can then 'press' the CDs on your own computer one at a time. Or, you can purchase a CD duplicator (from one of the above vendors or most any computer vendor such as PC Connection or Tiger Direct). Make sure it has the Lightscribe feature so that it can print professional looking labels on the CDs at it duplicates them.

Be aware, however, that there's a steep learning curve to all of this and, if you do your recording in a room that is less than acoustically ideal, the finished product may not be much to listen to. Demo quality at best.

If you want a professional recording, you will have to book space in a studio, hire the engineer and maybe a producer (a great idea if you can afford it since an experienced, impartial producer can make the difference between marketable music and just plain noise). You will then end up with a master CD from which you can duplicate yourself as noted above. Or, there are any number of companies that will dupe your disks in lots of 250, 500, 1,000 or more, including jewel cases and liners, for reasonable cost. Cost per disk goes down the more you order.

You should also be aware that, if you are recording covers of other people's music, you will need to pay royalites. Some newer music cannot be covered without direct permission from the copyright holder (usually a recording company). Performance rights for most music, however, can be purchased on-line through the Harry Fox agency (www.harryfox.com/index.jsp) at 9.5 cents per song per disk with a minimum of 250 disks.

Then, of course, you have to actually SELL the disks, but that another whole issue entirely.

Are expansion cards an input or output device?

Input I would have thought.

If you are refering to the big readers of the 80-column punched card then they are Input devices. But many of these devices were made so that they could also be used for output - ie for punching cards - these are both Input and Output devices.
A card reader is an INPUT (not imput) device.

Whenever you are trying to categorize a device as Input or Output, think of how it looks from the computer.

If the computer is transmitting data to it, it is an Output device.

If the computer is receiving data from it, it is an Input device.

What do you do if your computer freezes?

It is better to run some malware scan like malwarebytes antimalware. However, cleaning Windows registry with Reginout registry optimizer is often recommended when computer freezes most of the times.

Where do deleted files in a computer go?

By default in windows XP when a user deletes files they go into the recycle bin where they reside until they are bumped out by other files the user deletes later. At which point they are actually deleted.

However when a file is deleted, the data still resides on the hard disk. Basically all the file system does is remove the file from its table of contents which leaves that dataspace open for use in the future whenever new files are written. The actual data will remain until that same space is allocated to another file & thus over-written. This is done for the sake of performance, as otherwise when you deleted a large file, it would take just as long to delete it as it did to write it. As it is, file deletion is near instantaneous.

There are utilities availble which can go through and recover and/or remove this hidden data. Recovering files in this manner is very hit or miss, many times the files will be corrupted or incomplete as most OS's are near constantly reading and writing to the hard drive, it is very likely -some- of the data will have been over-written.

Is a cam an input device?

Yes. It converts what are you recording in to electric signal and this signal put INTO a computer.

According to ACPI standards the S1 mode causes what two devices to stop using power?

In S1 (sleep mode) only the hard drive and monitor are shut off, everything else runs normally.

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What are the Basic computer operating system of Main Frame?

MAINFRAME OPERATING SYSTEMS:

VSA/XA

VM.XA

VSA/ESA

VM/ESA(virtual machine/enterprise system)

MVS/XA(multiple virtual storage/ extended architecture)

TPF (transaction process facility)

MVS/ESA(Multiple virtual storage /enterprise system)

MVS/SP

OS/390

LINUX

Z/OS

this are the operating systems that are associated with mainframes

What hardware is needed to make a computer become Bluetooth accessible?

You would need a bluetooth adapter. Usually, these are small USB adapters that plug right into a free USB port.

Is a digital camera both an input and output device?

Normally unless something is broken, it is a storage device (it stores pictures and sometimes videos), an input device (it gets the photos and videos from something within it), and it is an output device (it has a screen)

Is PC and Mac hardware interchangable?

Yes. Windows PCs, Linux PCs, and Macs can all coexist on the same network, share files with one another, and communicate with one another. While the applications (programs) are particular to each operating system, there are often comparable or compatible applications that can work with the same or similar file formats. For example, Microsoft Office is made for Windows and for Mac OS X (although in different versions), but not for Linux -- but Linux has OpenOffice.org or StarOffice, which are similar products and can even work with standard .doc and .rtf files. Many file formats are standard file types that can be opened and/or used with many different applications. Take JPEG (.jpg), for example - it's a standard image file format that can be opened and/or saved with a variety of applications, ranging from MSPaint to Adobe Photoshop to Graphic Converter to Corel Photo Paint and more. All platforms have email applications and web browsers, and the internet is becoming increasingly standards-based, making computing platform choice a secondary concern. Also, virtualization technologies are allowing users to install and use multiple OSes on a single computer, mitigating many concerns about cross-platform compatibility.

Two categories of software are?

This is not possible to categorized software into two types.

Let discuss the main category of software types:

Application Software

In information technology, an application (app), an application program, or application software is a computer program designed to help people perform an activity.

Some application packages focus on a single task, such as word processing; others, called integrated software include several applications.

System Software

System software is software designed to provide a platform for other software. Examples of system software include operating systems like macOS, Linux, Android and Microsoft Windows, computational science software, game engines, search engines, industrial automation, and software as a service applications.

Programming Software

Programming software is a software which helps the programmer in developing other software. Compilers, assemblers, debuggers, interpreters etc. ... Integrated development environments (IDEs) are combinations of all these software. Programming software is also known as programming tool or software development tool.

Driver Software

It is challenging to give a single precise definition for the term driver. In the most fundamental sense, a driver is a software component that lets the operating system and a device communicate with each other. For example, suppose an application needs to read some data from a device. The application calls a function implemented by the operating system, and the operating system calls a function implemented by the driver.

The driver, which was written by the same company that designed and manufactured the device, knows how to communicate with the device hardware to get the data. After the driver gets the data from the device, it returns the data to the operating system, which returns it to the application.

These is not a enough for software because there are many types exits in IT filed.

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Will a 16x card work in 8x slot?

You cannot plug a x16 graphics card into a x8 slot. You can however, if you wish, plug an x8 card PCIe card into an x16 slot. A p-lane PCIe card will work at some speed in an n-lane PCIe slot, where n > p. This is not true if n < p. So in this situation the card wants 16 lanes but the motherboard can only support 8 For more specific answers though, please post more detailed info such as make and model of hardware

Why is there little hole in the middle of a CD?

The hole in the CD is where the machine you put it in "grips" the CD so the disk can be spun and thus read and used.

What is a USB serial interface?

USB stands for universal serial bus for short. USB is a universal port that can be used to exchange data between a storage device and a peripheral. Example, you can transfer data from your phone to your system by simply connecting the two with USB.

A USB port is a Universal Serial Bus port. This is a universal port that nearly any kind of peripheral can be manufactured to use thereby limiting the number of port TYPES needed on a PC.

Why do automated input devices allow more accurate input of data than manual input device?

Automated input devices are more accurate because there is a decreased chance of human error due to the following factors; computers never get tired, they are not biased in any way and more accurate calculations can take place quickly and repetively. The same task can be performed with 100% efficiency.

What is a 4 pin auxiliary connector?

4 Pin Aux connectors are used by some video cards to provide additional power to them via the power supply.

What kinds of computers is the Pentium processor compatible with?

The Pentium is a PC chip, or what oldschoolers call "IBM-compatible." i.e, non-Mac.

Since the Pentium (and the stuff it attaches to) IS the computer, I'm guessing what you're really asking is, what will the Pentium processor run?

It'll run Windows (and keep in mind that there have been Pentium processors since 1995, so you'll want to figure out whichPentium you have before you run out and buy Windows 7.

They'll also run Linux (including Ubuntu), Unix, and other OS's - - essentially (again), if it's not the Mac OS, it'll probably run on a PC.