Hi There,
- what is a pci adapter or a scsi adapter. how are
the two different?
Ah, If u want to know them technically - u can refer SN Mali - Both are covered :) (4th year portion of Comp. Engg. guys :) But I guess, simply put they are this - Every device, connected to the computer has to communicate to the cpu and vice versa. Sometimes, It even has to access the harddisk or do some Direct Mem. access etc... Now, for this data/code transfer, it is necessary to have relevant control signals and here come various types of adapters like ISA, PCI, SCSI (AGP is also there - but just for video cards). Various devices are present on these adapters. for ex. I have a ESS sound card on a ISA bus and a SiS video card on my PCI bus. SCSI adapters are used for harddisks, cdroms etc. They offer faster speeds than the current IDE interface for HDD... BTW, These are all called bus interfaces.
- how can i find the amount of video memory i have,
as i no longer have the manuals with me
When u initially boot ur system - u will see something about ur card written on the screen -It is the very first thing that comes on ur screen, when u switch the PC on. (even b4 ur ram count) . that will also show how much amout of vram u have... And how old is ur system?? If it is a recent one, and u have an AGP card, u can safely put 4 MB :)
- how can i find if my cd drive (creative 52x) is
'atapi' or not..what is this 'atapi' by the way?
It will be there in ur BIOS setup - press the "del " key while booting the system...
- on the motherboard, i found 2 switches which were
labelled as 'jumper settings' what are these two used for?
U will have to read ur motherboard manual. Generally, they are for auto-jumper and clear CMOS Bye, SP Without Pine, Life is a Pain
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