when refering to computer hardware, what does ATA mean. like serial ATA, what do the letters ATA stand for ?
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serial is the interface, much like parallel, and ATA stands for Advanced Technology Attachment.\n\nFor the answerer above, ATX would be the motherboard layout.
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I think there may be lots of different interpretations of the terms, but at my workplace:\n\nTech Support was for the hardware and general software help.\n\nSystem Support was for specific application software help.
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The connection between the computers motherboard and the hard drive can be a number of different types.\n1) The most common form is the EIDE Interface which has an ATA rating. The ATA rating gives you an idea of relative speed and could be 33, 66 100 or 133. These are connected using a 40 pin ribbon connector, with an 80 way ribbon cable for the ATA 100/133.\n2) The other common interface is the Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI) which has different versions SCSI, SCSI2 and SCSI3. They are connected via a ribbon cable also and are used more on servers because it allows mores drives to be connected to a single controller.\n3) The new "standard" is the SATA which is the serial ATA. Instead of using a wide ribbon cable for a parallel interface it uses a serial interface which, I think, has only 4 wires. This reduces the clutter inside the computer allowing better air flow, but the main advantage is that it is faster. The drives that are out now are SATA 150 which is a bit faster than the ATA 133, but the interface has been designed to allow much faster interfaces in the future. The SATA cables are daisy chained from the controller to the first drive then the next. I don't know how many can be connected to one controller. \n\nNew motherboards are coming with SATA interfaces as well as the EIDE ports. You would have to check what you have in your computer if you want to add a new drive.
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Here is a long list of all what you might need to understand computer names. \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_terms
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Some of that is old stuff.\n\nSTAT II is the up and coming thing instead of ATA 100\n\nWhat is the RAM?  DDRII?  That's new, also.  DDR is old and SIMM is ancient!\n\nThe CPU is 64 bit ready, correct?
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This is the central processing unit (CPU) in your computer.  It is the brains of the machine and executes the programs that you run.  The MHz refers to the speed that it operates, in millions of cycles per second.  Intel Pentium is one brand, an equivalent is made by AMD (K6 and so on).  \n\nCD Rom Drive is the unit that you stick the CD into to read the program into the computer.  \n\nSounds like you are reading system requirements off a software box, in which case they are trying to tell you what your computers capabilities need to be in order to run the program.  They usually require a certain speed processor, CD Rom Drive, some hard disk space, and a given amount of system memory.  \n\nStart -> Programs -> Accessories -> System tools -> System Information should tell you the specs that your computer has.  \n\nGenerally speaking, much older computers don't run the newest software well, try to find a program that came out about the same time as the computer, or within a couple of years.  \n\nGood luck, and don't be afraid to put more details in your questions in the future.
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from the American Heritage Dictionary: it is "The main board of a computer, usually containing the circuitry for the central processing unit, keyboard, and monitor and often having slots for accepting additional circuitry."
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it depends on the motherboard.  find out the manufacturer and model number, then go to it's website for tech specs.  usually its ide or sata but you never know...
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ordinary(called ultra ata or ide) hard disks use ide cable which is quite wide and old tecnology,but sata(serial ata) uses ata data cables which is thiner than a finger.ata works much better and faster esp when you surf in internet
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BIOS is an Acronym for basic input/output system, the built-in software that determines what a computer can do without accessing programs from a disk. On PCs, the BIOS contains all the code required to control the keyboard, display screen, disk drives, serial communications, and a number of miscellaneous functions.\n\nThe BIOS is typically placed in a ROM chip that comes with the computer (it is often called a ROM BIOS). This ensures that the BIOS will always be available and will not be damaged by disk failures. It also makes it possible for a computer to boot itself. Because RAM is faster than ROM, though, many computer manufacturers design systems so that the BIOS is copied from ROM to RAM each time the computer is booted. This is known as shadowing.\n\nMany modern PCs have a flash BIOS, which means that the BIOS has been recorded on a flash memory chip, which can be updated if necessary.\n\nThe PC BIOS is fairly standardized, so all PCs are similar at this level (although there are different BIOS versions). Additional DOS functions are usually added through software modules. This means you can upgrade to a newer version of DOS without changing the BIOS.\n\nPC BIOSes that can handle Plug-and-Play (PnP) devices are known as PnP BIOSes, or PnP-aware BIOSes. These BIOSes are always implemented with flash memory rather than ROM.
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It stands for Disk Operating System.  It was the operating system used by personal computers before everyone started using windows.  \n\nIf you go to "start" then "run" and type "cmd" - you will see what it looked like (that was it - pretty boring)  \n\nCheers!
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It appears to be a BIOS flash program, used to update the BIOS.  The BIOS is Basic Input/Output System.  Basically, it remembers your hardware configuation & corresponds it with Windows.\n\n"Flashing" the BIOS means that your are updating it.  Reasons for doing this would be, for example, to correct a keyboard malfunction on a laptop.  THis is very dangerous to do, so only do it if you absolutely must.
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If you mean what does WORM stand for, it can have any of the following meanings:\n\nWrite-Once, Read-Many\nWrite Once Read Memory\nWrite Only-Read Many
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A general-purpose machine that processes data according to a set of instructions that are stored internally either temporarily or permanently. The computer and all equipment attached to it are called hardware. The instructions that tell it what to do are called "software." A set of instructions that perform a particular task is called a "program" or "software program."
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The letters A: and B: are reserved for use by floppy drives only - however, since the drive isn't connected through the FDC, it will most likely get assigned the next regular drive letter (E: or whatever), instead of B:.  The drivers have special permissions to override the BIOS restrictions and take letter A: if it's not in use, but I'm pretty sure if you already have an A, it won't be able to take B:.
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the short answer is the HD you have will connect to the motherboard you have.\n\nthe long answer is that there are 2 standards of connectors\n\nSata = Serial ATA \nPata = Parallel ATA used to be called only ATA before the pata was introduced few years ago.\n\ndevice that is not clearly marked sata is most probably pata.\n\n[edit]\n\nthe best speed of read and write you will get from sata 2 which is 300 MB/S.\n\nA good solution will be to connect 2 HDD in what is called raid 0 (striping)
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IT stands for information technology.\n\nIt's a general term used to describe a field of work dealing with networking computers, computer systems maintanence and such.\n\nMainly it refers to how office computers are networked together.