By Jean Andrews
Aiding home windows eight is a necessary source for present and aspiring computer fix technicians who want to know up to date details on find out how to help the most recent home windows working systems.This Microsoft home windows eight complement is designed to take advantage of along with A+ advisor TO coping with AND holding YOUR computing device, 8th version, or A+ consultant TO software program, 6th version. Wide-ranging and hugely functional, the textual content presents thorough insurance of the diversities among home windows eight, 7, and Vista; the best way to set up and continue home windows eight; and instruments for troubleshooting community connections. The textual content additionally examines protection instruments and methods proper to home windows eight and explains find out how to troubleshoot startup mistakes and slowdowns. Labs for every bankruptcy concentrate on help instruments and methods for home windows eight that range from 7 and Vista.
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UDMA ATA hard disk drive card n. Expansion card used to control and interface with an ATA hard disk drive. These cards are usually ISA cards. See also ATA, ISA. ATA/IDE hard disk drive n. ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment) and IDE (Integrated Drive Electronicsâ or numerous other interpretations) are one and the same thing: a disk drive implementation designed to integrate the controller onto the drive itself, thereby reducing interface costs and making firmware implementations easier. ATAPI n.
See also direct memory access, EIDE, IDE, logical block addressing, PIO, SMART system. 2 ATA Specifications. ATA Specification Also Called ATA IDE ATA-2 Fast ATA, Enhanced IDE (EIDE) ATA-3 Features Supports PIO (Programmed Input/Output), which transfers data through the CPU. 3 mbps. Supports faster PIO rates and DMA (direct memory access), which bypasses the CPU. 6 mbps. It also supports LBA (logical block addressing), which allows support for drives larger than 528 MB. Revision of ATA-2 with SMART (self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology) for greater reliability.
A device that automatically prepares a diskette, CD, or other storage medium for use. automagic adj. Slang for a process performed in some unexplained (but not inexplicable) way by a computer. An automagic process might either be too complicated to explain (such as a complex spreadsheet calculation), or it might be a complex process made to appear simple to the user (such as clicking on a heading to arrange the items in a list in alphabetical or chronological order). Compare black box. automata theory n.