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Names of Components
Hardware Issues/Repairs
General Hardware
Data Transfer
Monitors
100
A large piece of Silicon that connects the other hardware
What is a motherboard
100
No Hard drive will give you this error
What is disk boot failure
100
This is a virtual hard drive
What is a partition
100
This is the cable that transfers data to and from your hard drive
What is a SATA cable
100
This stands for liquid crystal display.
What is a liquid crystal display?
200
A rotating piece of plastic used to cool your computer
What is a fan
200
An ethernet cable has this many wires in it
What is 8
200
This cools your CPU
What is a heat sink and CPU fan
200
This is the older means of transferring data to hard drives, sometimes called ribbon cables
What is IDE
200
On this, a picture can get burned into the display in about 3 hours.
What is a plasma display.
300
This form of sending video information to your moniter also transfers sound
What is HDMI
300
your hard drive makes this sound when its dying
What is a ticking noise
300
There are 3 main ways of putting video onto your monitor (wires)
What is VGA, DVI and HDMI
300
PCI express is now this many times faster than PCI
What is 16 times faster
300
This cable haves 15 pins and transfers video.
What is a vga cable.
400
The entire outside of your computer
What is a case
400
Several long beeps upon startup usually indicates this
What is insufficient RAM
400
This is the main way of transferring power to your components (wire)
What is a molex connecter
400
This is the maximum speed boasted by SATA 3.0
What is 6GB/s
400
This component increases the voltage coming into the monitor.
What is a capacitor.
500
Moving this component over one pin for several seconds can reset CMOS
What is a shunt or jumper
500
3 Ways to reset CMOS
What is the reset button, removing the CMOS battery and moving a component over a pin
500
Microsoft owns ****** in apple
What are stocks/shares
500
As video cards became faster their (blank) had to get faster
What is their connections
500
These can store energy in your monitor for up to ten years.
What are capacitors.