The speed, or frequency, expressed in MHz, that controls activity on the motherboard and is generated by a crystal or oscillator located somewhere on the motherboard.
What is clock speed
100
A chip on the motherboard that contains a very small amount of memory, or RAM enough to hold configuration, or setup, information about the computer The chip is powered by a battery when the PC is turned off. A
What is CMOS setup
100
The paths, or lines, on the motherboard on which data, instructions, and electrical power move from component to component.
What is bus
100
The technology used to manufacture microchips. These chips require less electricity, hold data longer after the electricity is turned off, are slower, and produce less heat than earlier technologies. The configuration, or setup, chip is a chip like this.
What is CMOS (complementary metaloxide semiconductor):
100
Also called a microprocessor or processor. The heart and brain of the computer, which receives data input, processes information, and executes instructions.
What is central processing unit or CPU
200
Power management standard developed by Intel and Microsoft. Has been superseded by ACPI.
What is Advanced Power Management(APM):
200
A computer component, such as the main motherboard or an adapter board, that has electronic circuits and chips.
What is circuit board
200
A collection of eight bits that can represent a single character.
What is byte
200
region of memory that uses battery power to retain data after the PC is shut off.
What is CMOS RAM
200
A 0 or 1 used by the binary number system.
What is bit(binary digit)
300
A circuit board inserted into a slot on the motherboard to enhance the capability of the computer.
What is expansion cards
300
The main secondary storage device of a PC, a small case that contains magnetic coated platters that rotate at high speed.
What is hard drive
300
The lines on the system bus that the CPU uses to send and receive data.
What is data bus
300
One thousand MHz, or one billion cycles per second.
What is gigahertz (GHz)
300
A miniature circuit board installed on a motherboard to hold memory. DIMMs can hold up to 2 GB of RAM on a single module.
What is DIMM (dual inline memory module)
400
Adapter boards or interface cards placed into expansion slots to expand the functions of a computer, allowing it to communicate with external devices such as monitors or speakers.
What is cards
400
Firmware that can control much of a computer’s input/output functions, such as communication with the floppy drive and the monitor.
What is BIOS (basic input/output system)
400
Another term for the system bus.
What is front side bus (FSB)
400
Output from a printer to paper.
What is Hard Copy.
400
The number of lines on a bus that can hold data, for example, 8, 16, 32, and 64 lines, which can accommodate 8, 16, 32, and 64 bits at a time.
What is data path size
500
A narrow slot on the motherboard where an expansion card can be inserted. Expansion slots connect to a bus on the motherboard.
What is expansion slot
500
A group of chips on the motherboard that controls the timing and flow of data and instructions to and from the CPU.
What is Chipset
500
ROM that can be reprogrammed or changed without replacing chips.
What is flash ROM
500
The number system used by computers; it has only two numbers, 0 and 1, called binary digits, or bits.
What is binary number system
500
Software that is permanently stored in a chip. The BIOS on a motherboard is an example of firmware.