--- Mayuresh Kulkarni mayureshkulkarni79@yahoo.com wrote:
will u please explain the following -
- what is a pci adapter or a scsi adapter. how are
the two different?
Your PC (if it is >= Pentium, as well as a few 486's) is built around a PCI bus. PCI stands for Peripheral Interconnect (don't know how that fits into the acronym). A bus is (very simplistically) basically the backbone of a computer, which inetrconnects the different parts of the computer such as the CPU, RAM, disks, etc. It also carries power to the different components of the computer.
The PC has had several buses through its history. The original bus designed by IBM was later called the ISA bus (ISA - Industry Standard Architecture). This later evolved into the EISA (E-Extended) as microprocessors became 32 bit. IBM also introduced a proprietary bus architecture called Micro Channel Architecture (MCA) which died a quick and unlamented death because it was a closed standard.
SCSI stands for Small Computer System Interface, and is a kind of local bus designed to interface storage devices such as disk drives, tape drives etc. to the computer. SCSI subsystems connect to a PCI bus through a SCSI adapter which plugs into a PCI expansion slot on your PCI bus. Most PCs do not in fact ship with SCSI hard disks, unless they are high end workstations such as the HP Kayak. SCSI is generally not used for home PCs.
- how can i find the amount of video memory i have,
as i no longer have the manuals with me
- how can i find if my cd drive (creative 52x) is
'atapi' or not..what is this 'atapi' by the way?
The Creative 52x is an ATAPI drive. ATAPI is a disk drive standard.
- on the motherboard, i found 2 switches which were
labelled as 'jumper settings' what are these two used for?
Don't touch them unless you know what you're doing! Do you have the mobo manufacturer's manual?
HTH,
Krishnan
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