Videos (Chapter 17)
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djphilgood on June 2, 2010
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Managing and Troubleshooting PCs
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Electron Beam | The speed at which the ___ moves across the screen is known as the Horizontal refresh rate. |
| Vertical Refresh Rate | VRR stands for ___. |
| Sub-pixels | A color LCD screen is composed of many tiny liquid crystal molecules called ___. |
| AGP | A single port that is similar to a PCI slot and is dedicated to video is the ___. |
| Dual Scan Passive | In a ___ matrix LCD display the screen is refreshed two lines at a time. |
| Electrons | In a CRT monitor a stream of ___ hits the phosphor coating inside the display. |
| GPU | Video Cards have a ___ that offloads 3-D rendering duties from the CPU. |
| Display | The ___ applet in Windows XP can be used to set screen resolution. |
| Random Access Memory Digital to Analog Converter | RADMDAC stands for ___. |
| Brighter | The higher the intensity of the electron stream in a CRT monitor, the ___ the color produced by the glowing phosphor. |
| Shadow Mask | The ___ is a screen that lies directly behind the phosphors in a CRT and allows only the proper electron gun to light the proper phosphors. |
| Picture Elements | The term pixels is derived from the term. |
| 1024 | A resolution of 1024 x 768 indicates a horizontal resolution of ___ pixels. |
| VESA | Monitors that meet the ___ specifications for DPMS can reduce monitor power consumption by roughly 75 percent |
| 450:1 | A good contrast ration, which is the difference between the darkest and lightest spots that the monitor can display is ___. |
| Bandwidth | The ___ indicates how fast the monitor can display an image on the screen. |
| Dot Pitch | The ___ of a monitor defines the diagonal distance between phosphorous dots of the same color. |
| Digital | LCD monitors need a ___ signal. |
| Native | All LCD monitors have a ___ resolution that enables them to display the sharpest picture possible. |
| 15-pin VGA | Most digital LCD monitors come with an ___ connector. |
| DPMS | The VESA specification pertains to ___ and can reduce power consumption. |
| 33 | A typical CRT monitor uses about 120 watts. In contrast, a typical LCD monitor uses about ___ watts. |
| DirectMusic | Direct access to the hardware for MIDI devices is supported by the ___ protocol. |
| 640 x 480 | When IBM introduced the VGA standard in video cards, it offered 16 colors at resolution of ___ pixels. |
| Video Processor Circuitry | The video RAM and the ___ are the two major components of the video card. |
| Triad | A pixel is made up of a group of red, green and blue phosphors, called a ___. |
| VGA | With the introduction of the PS/2, IBM introduced the ___ standard. |
| Monitor Power Supply | If you hear bird-like chirping sounds emanating from your computer at regular intervals, it usually indicates a problem with the ___. |
| Graphics Processor | The ___ takes commands from the CPU and translates them into coordinates and color information that the monitor understands and displays. |
| Texture | In the PC gaming world, ___ is a small picture that is tiled over and over again on walls, floors, and other surfaces to create the 3-D surfaces. |
| Vertices | In the PC gaming world, a true 3-D object is composed of a group of points called |
| Strobing | The ___ function of AGP significantly increases the signals two, four and eight times for each clock cycle. |
| Cables for Breaks | If one color is missing on a monitor display, you should check the ___. |
| Horizontal Refresh Rate | The speed at which an electron beam moves across a monitors screen is known as the ___. |
| Vertical Refresh Rate | The amount of time taken to draw a monitors entire screen and get the electron guns back up to the upper-left corner is called the ___. |
| 15, 2 | Using DPMS, a typical CRT monitors power consumption will be reduced to approximately ___ watts and a LCD monitor will be reduced to about ___ watts. |
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