Ct 120 Unit 2 Terms

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The official name for the smaller peripheral power -supply connectors that most often attach to a floppy disk drive .

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Berg Connector:

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Windows utility that checks a hard disk for errors . It attempts to fix file -system errors and scans for and attempts to recover bad sectors.

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CHKDSK:

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The ratio between the light intensity of true black and true white .

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Contrast:

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D-shaped connectors user for a variety of connections in the PC and networking world l.Can be male (with prongs) or female (with prongs ) or female (with holes) and have a varying number of pins or sockets .

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D -connectors:

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To remove magnetism from a device. The terms is usually used in reference to color monitors and other display devices that use a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT). These devices aim electrons onto the display screen by creating magnetic fields inside the CRT.These divices aim electrons onto the display screen by creating magnetic fields inside the CRT . External magnetic forces -- such as the earth's natural magnetism or a magnet placed close to the monitor -- can magnetize the shadow mask , causing distorted images and colors.

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Degauss:

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A utility that allows technicians to examine and configure all the hardware and drivers installed on a machine .

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Device Manager:

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An application error debugger .This diagnostic tool detects application failures and logs diagnostic details.

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Dr .Watson:

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A partition on a basic disk that is created from unpartitioned free disk space, and is not formatted with a file system . The space is allocated to logical drives.
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Extended Partition:

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A DOS utility used to partition a hard disk , It can create only one primary partition and one extended partition .

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FDISK:

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An IEEE 1394 standard to send wode-band signals over a thin connector system that plugs into TV cameras, PCs, etc. This serial bus , developed by Apple and Texas Instruments , enables connection of 60 devices at speeds ranging from 100 to 400 magabits per second.

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Firewire:

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Both a DOS command and the act of preparing a volume to receive fiels and folders by defining the file structure .Places the file system onto the volume.Common file systems include FAT16,FAT32 and NTFS.

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Format :

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A passive device made out of a heat -conducting metal that is installed on top of a CPU.Usually eill have a powered fan on top of it.

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Heat Sink:

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Specific area of memory that a component uses to communicate with the system.

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I/O Address:

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A signal from a hardware device, such as a modem or a mouse, associated with a particular device, it is therefore imported to ensure that two devices do not share a common channel.

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Interrupt Request (IRQ):

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Also called a wrap plug , this takes the signal going out of a plug and essentially echoes it back , It allows you to test parallel and serial ports to make certain they are working correctly.

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Loopback Plug:

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The 6-pin round circular connectors that are keyed to plug in only one way. Designed for keyboards and mice.

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Mini-DIN connector:

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The large peripheral connector used on such devices as hard drives and CD/DVD drives.

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Molex Connector:

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A section of the storage area of a hard disk. A partition is created during initial preparation of the hard disk, before the disk is formatted.

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Partition:

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The name retroactively given to the ATA/IDE standards which uses a normal 40-pong connector . Can support up to two devices per channel and requires devices to be configured as Master, Slave or Cable -select.

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Parallel ATA:

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A type of partition on a basic disl that can be marked active .There can be up to four on any single physical disk.

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Primary Partition :d

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A serial link --a single cale with a minimum of four wires creates a point-to- point connection between devices .Transfer rates begin at 150 MBs. One of the main design advantages is that the thinner serial canles facilitate more efficient airflow inside a form factor and also allow for smalleer chassis designs.

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Serisl ATA:

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The primary computer memory that hlods instructions and data for currently executing software.

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System Memory:

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This utility shows all running programs, including hidden ones. Useful for terminating programs that are non-responsive or that will not shut down normally.

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Task Manager:

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A 12 Mbps serial interconnect for keyboards , printers, joysticks ,and many other devices,.Enables hot -swapping and daisy chaining of up to 127 devices.

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USB (Universal Serial Bus)

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Run -line command that will launch the System Information utility . It provides comprehensive information about the system's resource usage, hardware , and software environment:

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Win MSD: