Wednesday, 2 October 2013

Hardware Lesson 3

Hardware Lesson 3/5


Motherboard - Main part of the computer (The Hat) all connections go to this.

RAM - Random Access Memory. 

LAN - Local Area Network 

Cache Memory - is the faster version of RAM.
Level 1 and Level 2 Cache, level 1 is the faster type, level 2 is slower that level 1. 

BiosA set of computer instructions in firmware that control input and output operations - Basic programming. 

Post - Power-On-Self-Test.

Boot Sequence - Booting (also known as "booting up") is a bootstrapping process that starts operating systems.

Disk partitioning - The act of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple virtual hard disk drives. 

ROM - Read-Only Memory