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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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A light pen is a computer input device in the form of a light-sensitive wand used in conjunction with a computer's CRT TV set or monitor. It allows the user to point to displayed objects, or draw on the screen, in a similar way to a touch screen but with greater positional accuracy. A light pen can work with any CRT-based display, but not with LCD screens (though Toshiba and Hitachi displayed a similar idea at the "Display 2006" show in Japan[1]), projectors and other display devices. An input device that utilizes a light-sensitive detector to select objects on a display screen. A light pen is similar to a mouse, except that with a light pen you can move the pointer and select objects on the display screen by directly pointing to the objects with the pen.
What does PCI mean in computer terms?
PCI stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect, it is a type of architecture connectors used by different components.
Super Socket 7 is a slight enhancement of the Socket 7 platform created by AMD and VIA after Intel abandoned the platform. The socket itself is not distinctive; it is the chipsets used with it that set it apart from Socket 7 boards. Namely, Super Socket 7 boards run at a faster FSB speed than ones with Intel chipsets. Intel stopped at 66 MHz, but AMD and VIA pushed it up to 100 MHz.
How do you transfer files from a dead laptop to another laptop?
If the hard drive is still good, it can be removed and easily and inexpensively installed into an enclosure that will give it a USB interface. This can be connected to any other computer that also has a USB interface (like a big thumb drive).
What type of expansion slot is compatible with nic?
A network interface card can be connected to a standard PCI slot or PCI-E slot. The choice of what slot to use is up to the person building the system and also based on what expansion slot is unused.
Ask around for some recommendations. If you have a local neighborhood computer nerd or can find a local LINUX group, ask about a shop that sells high quality components for reasonable prices.
DELL IS , by far, THE BETTER COMPUTER. Dell Computers have a habit of going for years and NOT BREAKING. This can NOT be said of HP. If you want reliability, choose Dell! And, if you watch the Dell website, Dell periodically has great deals on a range of their Laptop and Desktop computers.
What is the full meaning of AGP in computer?
An AGP slot is a dedicated local bus found on many motherboards. It is used for high-performance video cards.
AnswerThe Accelerated Graphics Port (also called Advanced Graphics Port) is a high-speed point-to-point channel for attaching a graphics card to a computer's motherboard, primarily to assist in the acceleration of 3D computer graphics. Some motherboards have been built with multiple independent AGP slots. AGP is slowly being phased out in favour of PCI Express. AnswerIn computer jargon, AGP means Accelerated Graphics Port, and is used to generate video images based upon graphic generator programs. This is the port commonly used for games, which require that the image displayed on the monitor be calculated from a data stream, rather than simply passed through the computer like a television signal. Many high level gamers prefer to use graphics generated by specialized video/graphic cards, which are added to the motherboard of the computer. These cards have separate processors for decoding and generating video, and are able to create high resolution graphic images at a much faster rate than graphics chips which must rely upon the CPU to process the graphics output. The Accelerated Graphics Port is where these specialized cards are installed on the motherboard, where they are able to receive the graphics data stream prior to it entering the CPU, if I remember correctly.AGP Stands for Accelerated Graphics Port. An AGP port is specifically used to connect a graphics card. For more information on AGP, go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGP
A heat sink is usually something that draws something away from an electrical componet (Ex: ICU's, Processors and transistors)
APEX- A device that absorbs and draws heat from a hot object, dispersing it into the surroundings.
Why is it important that your case and motherboard share a form factor?
assures that the mother board fits in the case.
Holes in case align with ports coming off the motherboard.
The holes holes in the motherboard align with the holes in the case for anchoring the board to the case.
What is a machine that performs input processing output and storage?
Is a printer an input output or storage device
A DVI-D cable is a digital video display connector used in computers. It supports the same resolutions as VGA which has been the analog standard for many years. Digital signals do not suffer from timing errors that can sometimes reduce the clarity of an image delivered with VGA.
Note that there are two other formats. DVI-A uses the DVI connector but it carries an analog signal identical to that of VGA connector. A DVI-I carries both digital and analog signals and therefore provides two video links within the same cable.
Finally, DVI digital signals are compatible with HDMI video signals. DVI does not carry sound in either digital or analog video formats whereas HDMI supports sound within the same cable.
What could cause the monitor to display No Signal Input after windows start up displays?
the resolution is probably set to hi....when you turn on your computer hit f8 over and over until you see a screen with some options...select safe mode and then when windows loads left click on your mouse select properties then change your resolution lower..
What is the difference between socket 775 and lga 775?
The socket 775 and the LGA 775 are the same. If you want to get technical it's not really a socket CPU, as the pins themselves are located on the socket grid and the back of the processor is flat with contact points. Totally opposite of what were used to seeing. Intel designed it this way to take increase the power distribution.
The term LGA stands for Land Grid Array
Is an ATM an input or output device?
An ATM incorporates a keypad, (optional) scanner and card reader, which are all input devices, with a display and printer, which are output devices. The cash dispenser is a mechanical device controlled by the processor which neither takes in or displays information.
input
What is the purpose of the northbridge?
It depends on the type of CPU used. Originally, the northbridge chip served as a memory controller, AGP bus controller, and system bus. It interfaced with the CPU, the RAM, and the southbridge chip. The southbridge connected to about everything else. But most of the northbridge functions are now done by the CPU in many computers. The memory controller and sometimes even graphics are in the CPU these days.
cdr can be formatted into an audio CD, data CD or video CD... its the format you choose that determines what you can put onto it. cdr can take almost anything.
note, if you just drag mp3 files onto your cdr and burn, it does not make it an audio CD, but data.
What is another name for voltage?
Voltage can also be called "potential" and is measured across components or sections of a circuit.
Answer'Voltage' is another word for 'potential difference', not'potential'!
An input device that inputs biological data about a person?
Fingerprint Scanner
Retina Scanner
Face Scanner
These are some of the BIOMETRIC devices that inputs biological physical data.
What is an example of computer hardware platforms?
1) Microsoft Windows
2) Linux
3) Unix
4) Mac OSX
5) DOS
6) BIOS Software
7) HD Sector Boot Software
8) Device Driver Software i.e Graphics Driver etc
9) Linker Software
10) Assembler and Compiler Software
[Daniela Remogna]:
The previous answer isn't correct and it's misleading.
A computer hardware platform is a set of hardware components such as CPU (ARM based, Intel based,etc), memories (Cache, RAM, Flash Memory), video boards, USB subsystems and so on. In an hardware platform you have to define how these components communicate with each others. Tipically this task is achieved by a BUS system. On an hardware platform you can execute an operating system and only with an operating system you can install and use others programs. An operating system is responsible of communication with the hardware platform and it has to provide an interface towards the user. A software is typically binary coded for a type of CPU architecture via a Compiler (See assembly and ISA - Instruction Set Architecture).
It turns out without an hardware platform you cannot run software and operating systems such as "Linux, Windows, DOS" etc.
In "computer speak" a word is a specific amount of storage. The exact size of a word varies from machine to machine, however. If you read that your system has an 8-bit word, then it means that any time you see "word" you can think of 8 bits (and if you see "double word" or "quad word" you can think 16 bits or 32 bits, respectively).
