
Glossary
Glossary
The technical terms and abbreviations given below represent only a selection of the full list of common technical terms and abbreviations.
Not all technical terms and abbreviations listed here are valid for the described mainboard.
| ACPI | Advanced Configuration and | 
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 | Power Management Interface | 
| AC'97 | Audio Codec '97 | 
| AGP | Accelerated Graphics Port | 
| AMR | Audio Modem Riser | 
| AOL | Alert On LAN | 
| APM | Advanced Power Management | 
| ATA | Advanced Technology | 
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 | Attachment | 
| BIOS | Basic Input Output System | 
| BMC | Baseboard management | 
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 | controller | 
| CAN | Controller Area Network | 
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| CPU | Central Processing Unit | 
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| CNR | Communication Network Riser | 
| Continuity Rambus Inline | |
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 | Memory Module | 
| DIMM | Dual Inline Memory Module | 
| ECC | Error Correcting Code | 
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| EEPROM | Electrical Erasable | 
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 | Programmable Read Only | 
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 | Memory | 
| FDC | Floppy disk controller | 
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| FIFO | |
| FSB | Front Side Bus | 
| FWH | Firmware Hub | 
| GMCH | Graphics and Memory Controller | 
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 | Hub | 
| GPA | Graphics Performance | 
| I2C | Accelerator | 
| Inter Integrated Circuit | |
| IAPC | Instantly Available Power | 
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 | Managed Desktop PC Design | 
| ICH | I/O Controller Hub | 
| IDE | Intelligent Drive Electronics | 
| IPSEC | Internet Protocol Security | 
| ISA | Industrial Standard Architecture | 
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| LAN | Local Area Network | 
| LSA | LAN Desk Service Agent | 
| MCH | Memory Controller Hub | 
| MMX | MultiMedia eXtension | 
| P64H | PCI64 Hub | 
| PCI | Peripheral Component | 
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 | Interconnect | 
| PXE | Preboot eXecution Environment | 
| RAM | Random Access Memory | 
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| RAMDAC | Random Access Memory Digital | 
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 | Analogue Converter | 
| RDRAM | Rambus Dynamic Random | 
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 | Access Memory | 
| RIMM | Rambus Inline Memory Module | 
| RTC | Real Time Clock | 
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| SB | Soundblaster | 
| SDRAM | Synchronous Dynamic Random | 
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 | Access Memory | 
| SGRAM | Synchronous Graphic Random | 
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 | Access Memory | 
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| SIMD | Streaming Mode Instruction | 
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 | (Single Instruction Multiple Data) | 
| SMBus | System Management Bus | 
| SVGA | Super Video Graphic Adapter | 
| USB | Universal Serial Bus | 
| VGA | Video Graphic Adapter | 
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| WOL | Wake On LAN | 
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