Acronyms for PC Practicals

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Flashcards to help with speaking like an IT Professional
Thomas Lynass
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ESD Electrostatic Discharge
PSU Power Supply Unit
FRU Field Replaceable Unit
MB Motherboard
CPU Central Processing Unit
ZIF Zero Insertion Force
IPA Isopropyl Alcohol
HS/FA Heatsink Fan Assembly
VM Volatile Memory or Virtual Machine
OD Optical Drive
FDD Floppy Disk Drive
MOLEX D-shape 4 Pin Power Connector
BERG Power Connector used for Floppy Disk
AC Alternating Current
NIC Network Interface Card
VAC Video Adapter Card
ATX Advanced Technology Extended
ATA Advanced Technology Adapter (Also called IDE)
SATA Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
eSATA External Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
PATA Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment
SCSI Small Computer System Interface
IDE Integrated Drive Electronics (Also called ATA)
USB Universal Serial Bus
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks
BIOS Basic Input Output System
CMOS Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
POST Power On Self-Test
POSTCARD Post Card – Provides digital value of MB/POST error
BEEP Beep code output during POST
DIP Dual In-line Package
SIMM Single In-line Memory Module
DIMM Dual In-line Memory Module
RIMM Rambus In-line Memory Module
ECC Error Correcting Code
ROM Read Only Memory
PROM Programmable Read Only Memory
EPROM Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
RAM Random Access Memory
DDR Double Data Rate
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory
SDRAM Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
SRAM Static Random Access Memory
FPM Fast Page Mode
EDO Extended Data Out
HDMI High Definition Multimedia Interface
+12V – Yellow Disk motors, fans, cooling devices
+5V – Red Motherboard, old CPUs, MB components
+3.3V – Orange Modern CPUs and AGP video cards
0V – Black Ground, the return loop for circuits
-5V – White ISA expansion slots and early PROMs
-12V – Blue Some serial ports and early PROMs
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