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31 Cards in this Set
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The passive electrical components used to store charges and filter signals.
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Capacitors
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Multiple lane highways made of copper circuit paths on the motherboard are called
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Traces
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These are used to limit current, or the flow of electricity
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Resistors
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This acts as a miniature transformer, it increases or decreases voltage.
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Inductor
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The 2 bridge type of controllers on a motherboard that are examples of qsop
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Northbridge & southbridge
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These are small plastic coated shunts that are used to produce an electrical connection between open circuits on the motherboard. You may need to configure jumpers when installing new devices in the computer, such as harddrives.
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Jumpers & Switches
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The essential size, shape, and design of a motherboard.
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Form factor
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IBM allowed open access to the motherboard components they pioneered by making their system this?
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Open Architecture
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The most common form factor
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ATX
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The CPU fits into this type of socket
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ZIF
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This means to communicate.
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Interface
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The speed of data is determined by this.
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Clock speed
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Control how the data is sent via the?
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data bus
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Where data is going via?
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address bus
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The 2 main bus categories are the ?
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system bus & the in/out bus
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This type of bus connects the CPU to the RAM?
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systen bus
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This gets the attention of the CPU
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IRQ
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Each bus runs at a different clock speed true or false?
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true
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This allows for data to be transferred from the component to the memory without passing the CPU.
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DMA
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The device sends more than one signal over a single pin.
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Multiplexing
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AGP uses what to increase speed?
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Pipelines
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This replaced AGP?
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PCI eXpress
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attaches cd and dvd drives to the motherboard
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IDE, EIDE etc.
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I/O connectors that are shaped like a horizontal D and are called
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D Shell Connectors
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Meaning it can be plugged and unplugged while the computer is on
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Hot Swapping
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Both IEEE and USB support these data transfers
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Isochronous
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High speed parallel data sustained interface, available in several versions
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SCSI
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This controls the type and speed of CPU's that the motherboard will accept?
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Chipset
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BIOS means?
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Basic Input / Output System
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The GUI is the part of the collection what? that allows the user to make changes in the BIOS?
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Bios
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3 steps of the boot process/
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post, BIOS/CMOS, and the bootstrap
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