Computer Hardware

A motherboard has expansion slots, most boards even new ones will have a pci, pci-e 1.0, slots. Depending on how old the motherboard is it will not work well with todays software. The expansion slots today are mostly used for:

- Adding or replacing a video card if the orginial video port goes bad or not detailed enough (pixals in the image) to work with certain software.

- Adding USB ports if the if the older computer does not have enough or any. This way more modern perpherals (printers, keyboards, mouses, external hard-drives...etc.) can be used.

- Adding or replacing a network card.

Now take the newest boards, they have pci-e 2.0 16x, which are the fastest slots, but they still have a pci slot for say a wireless card.

Many of the connections for video, sound, keyboard, printer and anything else used on the computer is connected some way or another all built into the motherboard most times. Sometimes these connections go bad. Rather than buy another motherboard the expansion slots offers and alternative and possible upgrade to the repair of the problem.

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There are a variety of websites to purchase the Mini ITX Motherboard. Finding the store with the lowest retail prices is a bit trickier. With Aopen being the primary company at the beginning, they will most likely be your best choice.

Sometimes you can download updates off the internet, others you can get disks from your neighborhood electronic or comp. store

One reason the Fn key may appear stuck is if you recently plugged a full-size keyboard into your laptop and pressed the NumLock key. This key activates the Fn key on the laptop. To return the Fn key to its original state, plug in the keyboard and disengage the NumLock key. Remove the keyboard and test out any of the Fn assigned keys. They should return to normal working status. If it doesn't however, you may require further troubleshooting.

You can find out if its the numlock by holding the fn key to type normally. if it types normally then and oposite when released then that's the problem. you can turn it off by holding the fn key and presing either the blue "num <arrow down>" or the blue numlock key. (both are numlock just look different on some laptops.

It can mean many things. It can mean electronic data processing. In law enforcement, it could mean an emotionally disturbed person.

It could also be short for Energias de Portugal (formerly known as "Electricidade de Portugal"). It ranks among Europe's major electricity operators, and is one of Portugal's largest business groups.

One method of viewing CDs on a system with no CD drive access is to create data images of the CDs. These images can them be mounted from the hard disk using virtual CD-ROM software.

I use a parallel port Zip Drive...

If your computer doesn't have a network card you can still move your data or files utilizing your serial port. You will need software to do this but it is very simple. There is a software bumble called PC Re locater and is available at STAPLES for about $15 this includes the software that you will need and even comes with a cat5 cable and a file transfer cable or serial cable. The software is awesome it does everything for you. You just basically tell the software what file you want to transfer over to your PC and it does the work for you. It' that simple. Take the hard drive out of the laptop and connect it to the other computer. You will need to get a converter device so you can plug the 2.5" drive into the ribbon cable designed for 3.5" drives. Or you can get USB drive en closers made to hold the smaller drives that you can simply plug into the USB port of the computer.

Going from some versions of Windows to Windows, you can enable the Messenger service and use the command "net send" from the command prompt.

The syntax is NET SEND {name | * | /DOMAIN[:name] | /USERS} message

For example, "net send computer01 Don't forget that meeting at 5:00 PM today"

There may also be other third party programs to do this, but you will more than likely need to install the program on both computers.

A multiprocessor organization for supporting relational data base management systems is presented. DIRECT has a MIMD (multiple instruction stream, multiple data stream) architecture. It can simultaneously support both intra-query and inter-query concurrency. The number of processors assigned to a query is dynamically determined by the priority of the query and the size of the relations it references. The size of a relation is not limited to that of the associative memory as in some previous data base machines. Concurrent updates are controlled through address translation tables which are maintained by a controlling processor. DIRECT is being implemented using LSI-11/03 microprocessors and CCD memories which are searched in an associative manner. A novel cross-point switch is used to connect the LSI-11 processors to the CCD memories. While cross-point switches have proven too expensive for use in general purpose parallel processors, their application in DIRECT demonstrates that these switches can be successfully used in specialized applications.

The data cable used by the normal IDE CD-ROM drive is called the USB cable. USB stands for universal serial bus.

A Touchscreen Monitor will work as an input and output device

PCI or PCI Express

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Go to the closest Wal-Mart store where you are in the US and ask at the Service Counter how you pay for a computer to be picked up in the Wal-Mart in Puerto Vallarta. Find out what documents the person picking up the computer will need to present. If your friend's son needs the receipt you get as the buyer, you'll have to mail or send it to him by UPS or FedEx.

Why would you want to buy the computer in the US rather than in Puerto Vallarta?

Can't the Wal-Mart there get the computer you want?

Start a game, go into the options/settings, click video, click advanced and check "Enable Vsync"

Personally I don't see why anyone would want to enable vsync, so don't do it.

Alternatively you could go into your driver and find image quality and settings and enable it in there.

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cause the processor reaches high temperatures that might burn it .permanently...

simple and quick way to do this as a KB equals 1000 then add 3 zeros to the number

12192 (KB)thousand = 12192000 now to workout megabytes (1,000,000) count 3 digits from the right and place a commer 12192,000 count another 3 from there and place a commer 12,192,000 this then is 12.192MB

Anything connected to the computer is called a peripheral

what is going to happen is that your system wont boot again .and if you have bootlock enabled you may restore but if you dont you will have to buy a new bios chip .

Computer chips are green because of the chemicals they use to coat the chip. They chip is a plastic kind of base then coated with the green chemical to allow the circuits to be printed on. It does not conduct electricity at all.

Yes. USB 1.1 is backwards-compatible with USB 2.0, however you may not see the USB 2.0 speeds.