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CMOS RAM
-- Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor. CMOS RAM stores basic configuration information about your computer.
Colour display
-- A video display capable of displaying colours based on the RGB (Red, Green, and Blue) colour-mixing scheme.
Configuration
-- The way in which a computer and peripheral equipment (such as printers and display monitors) are interconnected
and programmed to operate as a system.
Default
-- The initial setting when the system left the factory.
Digital monitor
-- A type of monitor in which display colour is controlled by digital colour control lines that switch on and off ; the
number of colours that can be displayed depends on the selected display mode.
DIMM
-- Dual In-Line Memory Module. RAM chips installed on a small circuit board module, having a single row of connectors (240
pins) on the bottom of the module where it is plugged into the main system board.
DisplayPort
-- A digital display interface standard put forth by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) since 2006. It defines
a new royalty-free, digital audio/video interconnect, intended to be used primarily between a computer and its display monitor, or a
computer and a home-theater system.
DMA (Direct Memory Address)
-- A method for transferring data directly to and from system memory, bypassing the microprocessor.
DVI-D and DVI-I
-- (Digital Visual Interface- integrated) is the connection, or interface used between monitors and computers or home
theatre systems. DVI-I is used to interface with an LCD monitor display for digital video output. DVI-I supports both digital and analog.
However, it will not use both at the same time. DVI-I detects and chooses digital or analog depending on the connected display.
Contrast with DVI-D, which is a digital-only interface and DVI-A which is an analog-only interface.
Driver
-- A utility program accompanying the motherboard that permits application programs to use the extended resolutions of the
VGA circuitry.
Expansion slot
-- A connector on the motherboard for holding an adapter card.
Gigahertz (GHz)
-- A frequency of 1 billion cycles per second.
HDMI
-- (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is a compact audio/video interface for transmitting uncompressed digital data. It
represents a digital alternative to consumer analog standards, such as radio frequency (RF) coaxial cable, composite video, S-Video,
component video, or VGA. HDMI connects digital audio/video sources
—
such as upconvert DVD players, HD DVD players, Blu-ray Disc
players, personal computers (PCs), video game consoles and AV receivers
—
to compatible digital audio devices, computer monitors,
and digital televisions.
Hertz (Hz)
-- A unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second.
Horizontal frequency
-- The rate, at which monitor displays each scan line, usually measured in kilohertz (kHz).
I/O
-- An abbreviation for "input/output", a generic term that refers to the devices and processes involved in the computer's reading
and writing data.
Integrated circuit
-- An electronic device that combines thousands of transistors on a small chip of silicon. Such devices are the building
blocks of computers.
Interleaving
-- A technique for improving the performance of system memory by splitting the memory into two or four sections that
alternately process information. While one memory section goes through a refresh cycle, the microprocessor sends information to
another section for processing.
Jumper
-- On a printed circuit board, a patch connector, wire, or cable used to establish a circuit.
