COMPUTER HARDWARE QUIZ

The floppy drive uses which DMA (direct memory access) channel?

2

3

5

7

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You just installed a new IDE hard drive, but your system BIOS will not recognize the new drive, what should you check first.

None of these

drivers that need to be loaded

hard drive manufacturer web site information

jumpers on the hard drive

cable sequence

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How many DMA channels are there in an AT class PC?

3

None of these

7

8

4

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What is the most likely cause of an "FDD controller Failure" error message?

you did not set the jumper on the floppy drive to drive A

None of these

you forgot to flash CMOS

your computer's floppy drive is defective

you installed the floppy disk drive cable backward

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A sound card typically uses which IRQ?

5

10

20

15

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What is the jumper setting on a SCSI device to configure it to use the fourth SCSI id? Remember, SCSI ids start with zero.

11

110

101

1

10

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After installing a sound card, the system locks up when a parallel port tape backup unit is also used. What is most likely the problem?

defective tape driver

DMA

defective LPT port

IRQ

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What is the paper feeding technology most commonly associated with dot-matrix printers?

manual feed

friction feed

tractor feed

sheet feed

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What should you replace if the brightness or contrast adjustments were malfunctioning on a laptop?

adjustment switch

led display

led display cable

None of these

fuse

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In which phase of the laser printing process is a positive charge placed on the paper to pull the toner from the print drum?

Transferring

Writing

None of these

All of these

Conditioning

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