1. ACRONYMS / IDENTIFICATION OF HARDWARE PARTS & FUNCTIONS(any 10 of these): a. BIOS/CMOS/HDD/ROM/RAM/ISA/PCI/AGP/PCIE/SATA/PATA/IDE /LAN/FAT32/NTFS/LCD/CDROM/DVDROM/SCSI/CPU/NORTHBRI DGE-SOUTHBRIDGE CHIPSETS/LPT1/COM1/MIDI/USB/etc. 1.

BIOS- Basic Input/Output System (BIOS), The fundamental purposes of the BIOS are to initialize and test the system hardware components, and to load a bootloader or an operating system from a mass memory device. 2. CMOS Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor. CMOS is an onboard semiconductor chip powered by a CMOS battery inside computers that stores information such as the system time and date and the system hardware settings for your computer 3. HDD- The hard disk drive is the main, and usually largest, data storage device in a computer. The operating system, software titles and most other files are stored in the hard disk drive. 4. ROM- Read-only memory (ROM) is a class of storage medium used in computers and other electronic devices. Data stored in ROM can only be modified slowly or with difficulty, so it is mainly used to distribute firmware (software that is very closely tied to specific hardware, and unlikely to need frequent updates). Erasable (non volatile) 5. RAM Random Access Memory - RAM is normally associated with volatile types of memory (such as DRAM memory modules), where its stored information is lost if the power is removed.

6. PCI- Conventional PCI, often shortened to just PCI, is a local computer bus for attaching hardware devices in a computer. PCI is an initialism of Peripheral Component Interconnect and is [1] part of the PCI Local Bus standard. The PCI bus supports the functions found on a processor bus but in a standardized format that is independent of any particular processor's native bus. 7. AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port, an interface specification developed by Intel Corporation. AGP is based on PCI, but is designed especially for the throughput demands of 3-D graphics. 8. PCIE- PERIPHERAL COMPONENT INTERCONNECT EXPRESS 9. PATA - Parallel ATA (PATA), originally AT Attachment, is an interface standard for the connection of storage devices such as hard disks, floppy drives, and optical disc drives in computers. The standard is maintained by X3/INCITS committee.[1] It uses the underlying AT Attachment (ATA) and AT Attachment Packet Interface (ATAPI) standards. 10. SATA SERIAL AT ATTACHMENT -CABLE FOR HARD DISK

11. IDE - IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) is a standard electronic interface used between a computer motherboard's data paths or bus and the computer's disk storage devices. 12. LAN- A local area network (LAN) is a computer network that user interconnects computers in a limited area such as a home, school, computer laboratory, or office building using network media 13. FAT 32 - File Allocation Table (FAT) is the name of a computer file system architecture and a family of industry standard file systems utilizing it. The FAT file system is a legacy file system which is simple and robust.[4] 14. NTFS - NTFS (New Technology File System) is a proprietary file system developed by Microsoft.[1] Starting with Windows NT 3.1, it is the default file system of Windows NT family.[7] 15. LCD- A liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat panel display, electronic visual display, or video display that uses the light modulating properties of liquid crystals. Liquid crystals do not emit light directly. 16.CDROM- COMPACT DISK 17.DVDROM- DVD (sometimes explained as "digital video disc" or "digital versatile disc"[5][6]) is a digital optical disc storage format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than compact discs while having the same dimensions. 18.SCSI - SCSI (pronounced SKUH-zee and sometimes colloquially known as "scuzzy"), the Small Computer System Interface, is a set of ANSI standard electronic interfaces that allow personal computers to communicate with peripheral hardware such as disk drives, tape drives, CD-ROM drives, printers, and scanners faster and more flexibly than previous interfaces 19. CPU- A central processing unit (CPU) (formerly also referred to as a central processor unit[1]) is the hardware within a computer that carries out the instructions of a computer program by performing the basic arithmetical, logical, and input/output operations of the system. 20. The northbridge or host bridge was one of the two chips in the core logic chipset on a PC motherboard, used to manage data communications between a CPU and a motherboard. It is supposed to be paired with a second support chip known as a southbridge. 21 SOUTHBRIDGE- The southbridge is one of the two chips in the core logic chipset on a personal computer (PC) motherboard, the other being the northbridge. The southbridge typically implements the slower capabilities of the

motherboard in a northbridge/southbridge chipset computer architecture. In Intel chipset systems, the southbridge is named Input/Output Controller Hub (ICH).

22.COM 1-

COM (Communication port[1]) is the original, yet still common, name of the serial port interface on IBM PC-compatible computers. It might refer not only to physical ports, but also to virtual ports, such as ports created by Bluetooth or USB-to-serial adapters.