Kyle Poindexter NT1110 Computer Structure and Logic I/O Devices 1/12/15 Mrs. Coleman What critical I/O devices are necessary to use a personal computer? Which ones are not necessary for normal day-to-day use and why? A monitor and a keyboard are the two I/O devices necessary to use a personal computer. The monitor is the most important output device. It allows one to see the information that is being sent out by the computer. You cannot send or receive data to or from a computer without
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* NT1110 Computer Structure and Logic * Short Answer 1.1 * Describe the purpose and function of an operating system. Explain at least five differences among Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X operating systems. * An operating system is the basic platform for any computer. This platform is designed act as a translator to peripheral devices perform basic tasking from Input/output devices and maintaining files and directories on the hard drive. In a larger system, the O/S acts as a traffic manager
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------------------------------------------------- I/O Devices NT1110 February 11, 2015 jOhn Smith Iklhlas Abdulsaid February 11, 2015 jOhn Smith Iklhlas Abdulsaid Critical I/O devices for a computer to operate include monitor, mouse, and keyboard. You need these in order for your computer to fully function and operate smoothly. Your I/O devices that are accessories and not needed for your computer to function are the printer, modem, touchscreens, digital scanners, graphics tablets and
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Exploring the Motherboard and Buses NT1110 What are the major components of the motherboard? Provide a brief description of each component. The major components to the motherboard are the power supply, memory slots, expansion board slots, mass storage, I/O ports, and the CPU. The power supply is used to supply all of the computer with the appropriate power. The memory slots are used for inserting Random Access Memory cards into, to allow memory to be temporarily stored only when power is applied
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Pentium Microprocessor Flaw NT1110 19 October, 2013 Pentium Microprocessor Flaw Pentium microprocessor flaw was in the floating-point math subsection. The flaw was found where the division result returned by the Pentium microprocessor was off by approximately sixty-one parts per million. Once Intel pinpointed the flaw, their solution was to keep the information within the company and not disclose the information to the public. Regardless of the fact that the flaw did not affect all microprocessors
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Differentiating Between File Systems Chrishara Cobb NT1110 Differentiating Between File Systems Windows has tree file systems used to format USB flash drives, Fat 16, Fat 32 and NTFS. FAT32 is primarily used for large USB flash drives. While NTFS may be faster, and more advanced it may cause the USB to not be able to be used on non-Window’s systems. Over time it may cause the Flash drive to crash and have permission problems. If you have permission issues it can stop you from being able
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15OCT14 NT1110-1 Task 1 The LGA 1156 is known as Socket H2, the LGA 1155 CPU socket is used with Intel's “2nd Generation Core* i7/i5/i3 series” of desktop microprocessors codenamed Sandy Bridge. This 1155-circuit socket is a replacement of its predecessor – the LGA 1156 Socket (or Socket H1) – which mates with the Nehalem* processor. Its purpose is to connect the motherboard to the, without this connection the computer would not work. The Intel H55 Express Chipset. The GIGABYTE H55N-USB3 motherboard
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NT1110 Unit 10 Analysis – Repair Shop A computer repair shop chooses to back up the user’s data if there is an issue with the owner’s computer software. Then they just reinstall the operating system. What the computer repair shop does not do is reinstall the user’s applications. There are good and bad things about doing business this way. Some of the pros are it is less time consuming, all of the users pictures, music, videos, and documents will be backed up, and the computer will end up getting
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“The Pentium Microprocessor Flaw” Jamaal Bonner April 25, 2014 NT1110/Computer Structure and Logic Professor Marcus Price The Pentium Microprocessor Flaw The Pentium microprocessor is the CPU (central processing unit) developed by Intel. Pentium chips include a floating-point unit (FPU) that has integrated instructions that tell the chip how to compute integer arithmetic, making them much faster [for heavy numerical calculations], more complex, and more expensive. The problem for Intel is
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NT1110 Short Answer 3.1 1/25/15 In this essay I will be describing what the major components of a motherboard are, why upgrading just the motherboard wouldn’t be necessary because it is limited, and deviate the need for different busses on the motherboard with 64bit busses and 32bit. Basically the processor socket is the input socket for the processor, the ddr2 memory slots are for the ram (random access memory), and the heat sink acts as a radiator for the processor on the north bridge,
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