PC Hardware in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition
| [SYMBOL] [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [X] [Y] [Z] wait states, in CPUs Wake-on-LAN (WOL) Wake-on-Ring (WOR) warranties 2nd backup power supplies and breaking seals displays and motherboards and OEM software and video cards and wattage power supplies and waveform audio waveguide synthesis wavetable synthesis Weekly Full with Daily Differential rotation Weekly Full with Daily Incremental rotation, caution with White Book (CD formats) Wide SCSI Willamette core WinChip IDT processors Windows 3.x, BIOS and 2nd Windows 95 [See Windows 9x] Windows 98 2nd [See also Windows 9x] Accelerated Graphics Port and font sizes, setting memory ranges and PCI Bus IRQ Steering Quick Res utility and USB and video drivers, changing performance settings for video, configuring viewing and reserving system resources Windows 9x 2nd ATA DMA mode transfers and BIOS updating bundled software and CD writer firmware revision and CD-ROM drives letter assignments for, changing SCSI drivers for, installing and troubleshooting CMOS settings COM port settings, configuring displays, configuring DOS boot disks and DVD drives and emergency repair disk and font sizes, setting hard drives and, formatting Image Color Management keyboards, configuring mice/trackballs, configuring parallel ports, configuring for PCI Bus IRQ Steering Plug-n-Play (PnP) support for startup disk for, vs. emergency disk tape drives, configuring USB and, configuring video adapters, problems with viewing system resources virus scans Windows Me [See Windows 9x] Windows NT BIOS 2nd CD-ROM drives installing/configuring SCSI drivers for, installing and troubleshooting disk cloning displays, configuring DOS boot disks and DVD drives and emergency repair disk and font sizes, setting hard drives and, formatting Hardware Compatibility List keyboards, configuring mice/trackballs, configuring parallel ports, configuring for tape drives, configuring video adapters, problems with video, configuring viewing system resources virus scans and Windows NT 4 CD writer firmware revision and CD-ROM drives, changing letter assignments for COM port settings, configuring DMA support memory ranges of PCI PnP devices, problems with UDMA/66 standards and viewing system resources Windows RAM (WRAM) Windows 2000 Accelerated Graphics Port and ATA DMA mode transfers and BIOS CD writer firmware revision and CD-ROM drives letter assignments for, changing SCSI drivers for, installing and troubleshooting COM port settings, configuring displays, configuring DVD drives and font sizes, setting hard drives and, formatting keyboards, configuring mice/trackballs, configuring parallel ports, configuring for Plug-n-Play support USB and caution with configuring VIA chipsets, caution with video, configuring viewing system resources Windows XP CD writer firmware revision and CD-ROM drives letter assignments for, changing SCSI drivers for, installing and troubleshooting displays, configuring font sizes, setting hard drives and, formatting parallel ports, configuring for USB and, configuring video, configuring viewing system resources Wintel WinZip wireless keyboards WOL (Wake-on-LAN) WOR (Wake-on-Ring) working on PCs 2nd [See also upgrading PCs] backing up data CD-ROM drives, choosing DOS diagnostics, difficulty with electrostatic discharge precautions emergency repair disk and 2nd general procedures for grounding 2nd PC toolkits, assembling processors, installing 2nd record keeping for software tools for swapping components toolkit for turning power off and, caution with Workstation PC 99 WRAM (Windows RAM) wrist straps, anti-static write power write-through algorithms write-through caches writing CDs 2nd [See also CD-R drives; CD-RW drives] WTX cases |