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sampling rates, sound cards

Sandra Professional program

SAO (Session-at-Once)

SAO recording

SATA (Serial ATA)
2nd

connectors/cables

devices, configuring

features

hard drives, installing

SATA drives, preparing when building a PC

screws, varieties used in PCs

SCSI (Small Computer System Interface)
2nd

ATA versus

cables/connectors

LVD

narrow/single-ended

wide/single-ended

hard drive interface, selecting

vs. ATA

hard drives, installing

IDs and termination

implementations

interoperability

standards

SCSI CD-ROM drives

installing/configuring

preparing when building a PC

SCSI tape drives

installing/configuring

preparing when building a PC

SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM)
2nd

SE SCSI (single-ended SCSI)

secondary cache memory

security

home system as use for old PCs

using removable hard drive to secure data

seek/access time, considering when selecting hard drives

selecting

BPS

recommendations

cases

recommendations

CD writers

recommendations

CD-ROM drives

recommendations

CRT monitors

recommendations

DVD drives, recommendations

DVD-ROM drives

FPDs

recommendations

game controllers

recommendations

hard disk drives

ATA vs. SCSI

recommendations

hard disk interfaces

headphones

recommendations

high-capacity FDDs

keyboards

recommendations

memory

guidelines for

recommendations

mice

recommendations

motherboards

checking documentation/support/updates

guidelines for

recommendations

parallel ports, recommendations

power supplies

recommendations

processors

considerations

recommendations

SIMMs

sound adapters

recommendations

speakers

recommendations

tape drives

trackballs, recommendations

USB ports, recommendations

video adapters

recommendations

video drivers

writable DVD drive

Serial ATA
[See SATA]

Serial ATA hard drives, power connectors

Serial ATA Working Group

serial communications

asynchronous

frame types

serial framing

flow control

parity

serial data transmission

synchronous

serial data transmission

serial port hardware, installing/configuring

serial ports

add-ons, recommendations

COM ports settings, configuring

disadvantages

ease-of-use issues

resource demands

troubleshooting problems

servers, resource on home network

Session-at-Once (SAO)

setting jumpers/DIP switches

72-pin SIMMs

SFF (Small Form Factor)
2nd

SFX Baseboard Connector

SFX Control Connector

SFX power supply, typical power distribution

SFX/SFX12V

power connectors

power supply specifications

power supply voltage rails/tolerances

SFX12V power supply, typical power distribution

SGRAM (Synchronous Graphics RAM)

shock rating, ignoring when selecting hard drives

shutdown, automatic of BPS

signal-to-noise ratio

SIMMs (Single Inline Memory Modules)

installing/removing

selection guidelines

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

Single Inline Memory Module
[See SIMMs]

Single Inline Pin Package (SIPP)

single-conversion on-line UPS

single-ended SCSI (SE SCSI)

single-jumper configuration of motherboards

Single-Sided, Double-Density (SSDD)

SIPP (Single Inline Pin Package)

SiS chipsets, USB HCI chipsets

SiSoft Sandra

16-bit ISA/PCI standard IRQ assignments

slot covers for expansion cards

Small Computer System Interface
[See SCSI]

Small Form Factor (SFF)
2nd

Small Outline DIMM (SODIMM)

SmithMicroSoftware CheckIt

SMP (symmetric multiprocessing)

SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol

SNMP manageability of BPS

Socket 370 CPU slots

SODIMM (Small Outline DIMM)

software components
2nd
[See also software tools for working on PCs][See also software tools for working on PCs]

software flow control

software tools for working on PCs

utilities, essential

DOS boot diskette

DOS diagnostics

utilities, supplemental

DisplayMate

DriveCopy

DriveImage

Partition Magic

sound adapters
2nd

characteristics

components

configuring under Linux

configuring under Windows 95/98/2000/XP

downloadable sounds

installing

MIDI synthesis methods

PC audio types

MIDI audio

support for

waveform audio

replacing an existing

selecting

recommendations

troubleshooting

upgrading

Sound Blaster

sound cards
[See sound adapters]

Southbridge
2nd
3rd

speakers

characteristics

selecting

recommendations

upgrading

USB

Specialized Products catalog toolkits

speeds, USB devices

relabeling of

SPP (Standard Parallel Port)

SPS (standby power supply)
[See also BPS][See also BPS]2nd
3rd

ferro-resonant

line-boost

standard

variants

SRAM (Static RAM)

SRP (Suggested Retail Price)

SSDD (Single-Sided, Double-Density)

stacked RAID

Standard cable

Standard DMA

Standard Parallel Port (SPP)

standard SPS

standards compatibility, sound cards

standby power supply
[See SPS]

static electricity
[See ESD]

Static RAM
[See SRAM]

STR (Suspend to RAM)

stripe pitch

CRT monitors

SUA (System Use Area), CD-R disc

Suggested Retail Price (SRP)

SuperDisk drive

as boot device

selecting

superscalar processors

support, building a PC and

Suspend to RAM
[See STR]

Swiss Army knife

Symantec Norton AntiVirus

Symantec Norton Utilities

symmetric multiprocessing
[See SMP]

synchronization range, CRT monitors

Synchronous DRAM
[See SDRAM]

Synchronous Graphics RAM (SGRAM)

synchronous motherboards

synchronous, serial communications

synthesis type, sound cards

System ID Byte

system management, motherboards and

system resources

DMA

I/O ports

Interrupt Request Line

ISA vs. PCI

juggling ISA IRQs

PCI Bus IRQ Steering

memory ranges

reserving with Windows 9X

viewing

under Linux

Windows 9X

with Windows 2000/XP

System Use Area (SUA), CD-R disc