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A bent pin on a three row DB-15 male connector plug could cause problems with which device or component?
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Monitor
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What is the total number of devices that can connect to a IEEE 1394 (Firewire) port?
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63
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What new feature was added to the Pentium III?
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SSE (Streaming SIMD Extensions)
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Which processors will fit in the same socket?
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Cyrix MII
AMD K6 Pentium MMX |
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A 144 pin memory module MOST likely belongs to which type of device?
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Laptop Computer
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What is the advantage of using ECC memory?
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Corrects memory errors
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Which of the following devices require an IRQ?
1. Serial ports 2. Parallel ports 3. IDE primary controller 4. System timer |
1. Serial ports
3. IDE primary controller 4. System timer |
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What does a 601 POST error indicate?
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A floppy drive error.
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You get a CMOS Checksum error during boot up. What is the most likely cause?
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CMOS battery is nearing end of life.
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Which interrupt does the RTC use?
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8
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When installing an AT power supply, which colors are adjacent on the P8/P9 connectors?
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Black, Black
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A bearing in the power supply fan goes out. What should you replace?
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The power supply.
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When you boot up your computer the light on the diskette drive lights up and stays lit. What does this mean?
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The data cable is installed backwards.
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What DMA channel does the floppy drive controller use?
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2
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What is the smallest storage access unit on an IDE hard drive?
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A Sector
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How many pins does a standard IDE connector have?
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40
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Which of the following are valid translations in the hard drive settings in the CMOS?
1. CHS 2. LBA 3. MFM 4. ECHS 5. RLL |
1. CHS
2. LBA 4. ECHS |
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How would an ID logical 3 be set on a three-bit jumper block on a SCSI hard disk drive?
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011
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Which items need to be set up on SCSI drives?
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Unique ID
Terminators |
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Which RAID level is known as "Disk Duplexing"?
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RAID 1
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ESD
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Electrostatic Discharge
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Three types of ESD are?
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Upset Failures - causes an electrical componet to fail without causing any detectable physical damage.
Degradation Failures - take place when a componet is physically damaged by ESD, but still works-at least some of the time. Catastrophic Failure - when the ESD damage is so severe that the componet is physically destroyed. |
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Before working on a PC?
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Take a moment to touch the power supply every once in a while as you work to keep the same electrical potential as the PC.
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ESD
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CPU
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Central Processing Unit or Microprocessor -performs all the calculations that take place inside a PC.
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Every CPU has?
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A Make
A Model A Speed A Package Type |
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RAM
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Random Access Memory -stores programs and data currently being used by the CPU. Each piece of RAM is called a Stick.
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EIDE
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Enhanced Intergrated Drive Electrons -EIDE drives are inexpensive and easy to install. More than 95% of all PC's use EIDE drives.
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SCSI
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Small Computer System Interface -SCSI drives are generally faster and more expensive, so they usually show up only in high-end PC's such as network servers or graphics workstations.
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DIN Connectors
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DIN =25pin female
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MCA
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Microchannel Architecture
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ISA
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Industry Standard Architecture
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IRQ Used: Primary Hard Drive
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14
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IRQ Used: Secondary Hard Drive
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15
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5 1/4 Floppy KB=?
Double Sided Double Density Double Sided High Density Double Sided Extra High Density |
360KB / Double Sided Double Density
1.2KB / Double Sided High Density None Made / Double Sided Extra High Density |
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3 1/2 Floppy KB=?
Double Sided Double Density Double Sided High Density Double Sided Extra High Density |
720KB / Double Sided Double Density
1.44KB / Double Sided High Density 2.88KB / Double Sided Extra High Density |
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Uses a serial wire instead of a parellel wire & transfers 150-600MBS
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Serial ATA
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Parallel ATA Bandwidth
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33/66/100/133/MBs
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Parallel ATA Volts Required?
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5v
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Parallel ATA Pins Per Cable?
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40
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Parallel ATA Cable Length?
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18"
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Parallel ATA Cable Width?
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Wide
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Parallel ATA Ventilation?
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Poor
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Serial ATA Bandwidth?
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150/300/600/MBs
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Serial ATA Pins Per Cable?
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7
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Serial ATA Cable Length?
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1 Meter
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Serial ATA Cable Width?
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Thin
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Serial ATA Ventilation?
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Good
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How Many Hard Drives in a Normal System?
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4
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Name the 4 types of parellel ports and their differences.
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SSP (standard Parelle port) -can only send data to a printer.
Bi-directional -can send & recieve data, but it is slow by todays standards. EPP (enhanced parellel port) -is a faster parellel port. ECP (enhanced capabilities port) -It is the same as an EPP exect it can use DMA for an even faster transfer speed. |
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Parelle Port : LPT 1 , IRQ 7
= I/O Port? |
378h
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Parelle Port : LPT 2 , IRQ 5
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278h
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serial
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Data high speed on one wire
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IEEE 1394
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Firewire
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Memory SIMS =pins?
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72
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Power supply fall tollerance is?
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10% up or down.
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Media Type Floppy 5 1/4 , 3 1/2
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Double Sided Double Density
Double Sided High Density Double Sided Extra High Density |
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Are expansion cards for laptops. Supports PNP. Comes in 3 Types.
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PCMCIA or PC Cards - (Personal Computer Memory Cards Industry Association)
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IRQ's & Which Com Ports are being used:
Com 3 , IRQ 4 |
3E8H
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IRQ's & Which Com Ports are being used:
Com 4 , IRQ 3 |
2E8H
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1.5 MB (megabyte) is = to?
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12 mb (Megabits)
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60 (megabyte) is = to?
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480 mb (Megabits)
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PCI
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(Peripheral Componet Interconnect)
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Created for the penn. CPU's because the UL-Bus was closely tied to the 486 CPU & runs @ 33 MHz w/32 or 64 bit bus.
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PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect)
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AGP
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(Advanced Graphics Ports)
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Used for graphic cards only.
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AGP (Advanced Graphics Ports)
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AMR
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(Audio Modem Riser)
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Used as an interface between the motherboard and the phone line. (20% CPU power only)
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AMR - (Audio Modem Riser)
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CNR
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(Communication & Networking Riser)
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Used to hold chips for the modem & audio devices. Used for low budget Lan Modems & audio subsystems. Used to reduce the cost of onboard Lan Cards. Up-Gradable to support DSL lines.
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CNR - (Communication & Networking Riser)
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PCMCIA or PC Cards
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(Personal Computer Memory Cards Industry Association)
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What are the 3 types of PCMCIA Cards?
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Type I: 3.3mm in thickness and used for flash memory.
Type II: 5.0mm in thickness and used for I/O devices like modems, networks, SCSI Cards. Type III: 10.5 mm in thickness and used for hard drives. |
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IRQ's & Which Com Ports are being used:
Com 1 , IRQ 4 |
I/O Port is 8F8H
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IRQ Used: Keyboard
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1
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IRQ Used: open / casaded to 9
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2
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IRQ Used: com 2
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3
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IRQ Used: com 1
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4
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IRQ Used: Floppy Drive
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6
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IRQ Used: Real Time Clock
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8 (reserved)
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IRQ Used: Open / Cascaded to 2
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9
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IRQ Used: Open For Use
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10, 11, 12
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IRQ Used: LPT 1
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7 (reserved)
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IRQ Used: LPT 2 (line printer port)
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5 (reserved)
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IRQ Used: math CO Processor
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13
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SYSTEM I/O PORT ADDRESSES:
Parallel Port 1 |
0378
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SYSTEM I/O PORT ADDRESSES:
Parallel Port 2 |
0278
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SYSTEM I/O PORT ADDRESSES:
Com 1 |
03F8
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SYSTEM I/O PORT ADDRESSES:
Com 2 |
02F8
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SYSTEM I/O PORT ADDRESSES:
Com 3 |
03E8
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SYSTEM I/O PORT ADDRESSES:
Com 4 |
02E8
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MCA
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Microchannel Architecture
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MCA I/O Bus - bit/MHz running are?
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32 bit running @ 12 MHz
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Has the ability to self-configure devices.
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MCA (Microchannel Architecture)
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MCA is used by what manifacture?
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IBM Only
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MCA is not compatible with what?
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ISA
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ISA
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Industry Standard Architecture
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8 bit running @ 4.77 MHz
16 bit running @ 8 MHz |
ISA - (Industry Standard Architecture)
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Developed to give 386 & 486 32 bit bussupport.
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EISA
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Developed for the 486 to provide a faster bus & runs @ 33 MHz w/32 bit bus.
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UL- Bus (UESA LOCAL BUS)
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IRQ's Used: system timer
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