Dell WorkStation 210 manual Nvram, Abbreviation for Extended Capabilities

hardware. DMI collects information about the system’s components, such as the operating system, memory, peripherals, expansion cards, and asset tag. Informa- tion about the system’s components is displayed as a MIF file or through the Dell '07)Inspector program.

Abbreviation for Desktop Management Task Force, a consortium of companies representing hardware and software providers, of which Dell Computer Corpo- GSLration is a member.

'306Abbreviation for dots per inch.

Abbreviation for Display Power Manage- ment Signaling. A standard developed by the Video Electronics Standards Associa- tion (VESA®) that defines the hardware signals sent by a video controller to acti- vate power management states in a monitor. A monitor is said to be DPMS- compliant when it is designed to enter a power management state after receiving the appropriate signal from a computer’s '5video$0controller.

Abbreviation for dynamic random-access memory. A computer’s RAM is usually made up entirely of DRAM chips. Be- cause DRAM chips cannot store an electrical charge indefinitely, your com- puter continually refreshes each DRAM GULYHchip in￿W\SHthe computerQXPEHU.

Your computer can recognize a number of specific hard-disk drives. Each is assigned a drive-type number that is stored in NVRAM. The hard-disk drive(s) specified in your computer’s System Setup pro- gram must match the actual drive(s) installed in the computer. The System Setup program also allows you to specify physical parameters (logical cylinders, logical heads, cylinder number, and logical sectors per pack) for drives not included in the table of drive types stored in

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'7(Abbreviation for digital signal processing.

Abbreviation for data terminal equipment. Any device, such as a computer system, that can send data in digital form by means of a cable or communications line. The DTE is connected to the cable or communications line through a data com- munications equipment (DCE) device, (&&such as a modem.

Abbreviation for error checking and (&3correction.

Abbreviation for Extended Capabilities

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Acronym for electrically erasable pro- (,'(grammable read-only memory.

Abbreviation for enhanced integrated drive electronics. EIDE devices add one or more of the following enhancements to the traditional IDE standard:

‡Data transfer rates of up to 16 MB/sec

‡Support for drives other than just hard-disk drives, such as CD-ROM and tape drives

‡Support for hard-disk drives with capacities greater than 528 MB

‡Support for up to two controllers, each with up to two devices

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Acronym for Extended Industry-Standard Architecture, a 32-bit expansion-bus de- sign. The expansion-card connectors in an EISA computer are also compatible with 8- or 16-bit ISA expansion cards.

To avoid a configuration conflict when in- stalling an EISA expansion card, you must use the EISA Configuration Utility. This utility allows you to specify which

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