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LCD | Liquid crystal display (LCD) is a flat, |
| consists of two polarizing plates with a liquid crystal panel in between. |
LVDS | |
| differential electrical signaling system commonly used to connect LCD |
| displays to a computer. |
POST | The |
| performs when the system is |
RAM | Random Access Memory (RAM) is volatile memory that loses data when |
| power is lost. RAM has very fast data transfer rates compared to other |
| storage like hard drives. |
SATA | Serial ATA (SATA) is a serial communications bus designed for data |
| transfers between storage devices and the computer chipsets. The SATA |
| bus has transfer speeds up to 1.5 Gbps and the SATA II bus has data |
| transfer speeds of up to 3.0 Gbps. |
S.M.A.R.T | Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T) refers to |
| automatic status checking technology implemented on hard disk drives. |
UART | Universal Asynchronous |
| asynchronous communications on the system and manages the system’s |
| serial communication (COM) ports. |
UHCI | The Universal Host Controller Interface (UHCI) specification is a |
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USB | The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an external bus standard for |
| interfacing devices. USB 1.1 supports 12Mbps data transfer rates and |
| USB 2.0 supports 480Mbps data transfer rates. |
VGA | The Video Graphics Array (VGA) is a graphics display system developed |
| by IBM. |
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