These are three common problems that require troubleshooting.
What is problems with installation, motherboards or processors, and overheating.
100
A multi-processor can have these three types of caches.
What is L1, L2, and L3.
200
The families of processors used by Intel.
What is Core, Pentium, Celeron, Atom.
200
A creamlike substance that is placed between the bottom cooler of the heat sink and the processor.
What is thermal compound/paste.
200
These parts of a processor are very delicate and should not be bent.
What is pins.
200
If the system hangs or freezes at odd times, you may be having problems with this.
What is overheating.
200
The technology that allows a processor to handle multiple threads in parallel is called this.
What is hyper-threading (Intel)/HyperTransport (AMD)
300
Three of the families of processors used by AMD.
What is Phenom, Athlon, Sempron, Turion Mobile, Athlon for Notebook, and Sempron for Notebook.
300
The most popular method of cooling overclocked processors.
What is liquid cooling system.
300
When installing a processor you need to be sure to protect it against this.
What is ESD.
300
If the system begins to boot but then powers down, or displays an error message, you may have a problem with this.
What is motherboard or processor.
300
Use these to prevent problems with dust.
What is cans of compressed air, antistatic vacuum, and/or blower.
400
This carries data between the processor and the northbridge.
What is front-side bus.
400
This can cover components and cause overheating and stop fans.
What is dust.
400
When installing a cooler over your processor, it is important not to use too much of this.
What is thermal compound/paste.
400
If these are not installed correctly, the processor can overheat during the boot.
What is cooler and thermal compound/paste.
400
It is best to eliminate these possibilites when troubleshooting a motherboard or processor.
What is simple and less expensive fixes.
500
Four of the eight features processors are rated on.
What is system bus speed, core frequency, socket and chipset, multiprocessing ability, memory cache space, amount and type of memory, computing technologies usable, and power consumption.
500
Most cases have one or more positions to hold these to help draw air out of the case.
What is case fan.
500
It is very important to connect the cooler to the motherboard using this. Doing otherwise could result in overheating.
What is power cord.
500
You must check this in order to troubleshoot.
What is BIOS.
500
A. The L1 cache is contained on this.
B. The L2 is contained on this