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THE WINDOWS 98 DEVICE MANAGER Page 5 of 5 Ports: The ports entry in Device Manager refers to your COM (communication) and LPT (printer) ports in your computer. Most motherboards (main boards) installed in computers today come with two COM ports, COM “A” and COM “B” also known as COM …

Intel(R) Processor Frequency ID Utility reports the processor frequency for supported processors, the utility runs a speed test algorithm to determine the processor’s operating frequency and compares it to the processor’s expected frequency. Both the reported frequency and expected frequency are displayed on the Frequency Test Tab. If the processor …

Intel® Express BIOS Update Intel® Express BIOS Update combines the functionality of iFLASH and the ease-of-use of InstallShield applications, by packaging the BIOS file within an automated update utility. Update your BIOS while in the Windows* environment, without creating a boot disk. Download is approximately 1 MB. Follow these user-friendly …

The Intel® Processor Frequency ID Utility was developed by Intel Corporation to enable consumers the ability to identify and, in some circumstances, determine if their Intel processor is operating at the correct and rated frequency intended by Intel Corporation. Beginning with the Pentium® processor, this utility provides consumers with the …

THE WINDOWS 95 DEVICE MANAGER   (CONT) Primary and Secondary IDE Controllers: Unfortunately problems with the Primary and Secondary IDE Controllers are abundant in Windows 95, and we do recommend that you upgrade to Windows 98 unless that it not at all feasible. Neither of the retail versions of Windows …

Add “Open With” to all Files You can add “Open With…” to the right click context menu of all of your files. This is great when you have several file types that you want to open with the same program. As an example, if you have three different text editors …

184 Pin DIMM DDR SDRAM is the newest of the memory types under development that will be available in the 184 Pin DIMM form factor. The principle difference between conventional SDRAM and DDR SDRAM is its ability to read/write data on both edges of a clock, therefore resulting in faster …

What is Unicode? Developed in cooperation between the Unicode Consortium and the International Organization for Standardization, Unicode is an attempt to consolidate the alphabets and ideographs of the world’s languages into a single, international character set. It is language agnostic, focusing instead on the characters themselves. Thus, a letter shared …

And The Issues Surrounding Them! A character that appears on your computer screen, whether it be a number, letter or symbol, is the graphical interpretation of a number. For a computer to know what characters to display, it refers to a database that associates a single character with each number. …

SiSoft Sandra Errata List No Memory SPD/PLL IC info on Asus boards: If Sandra does not show any memory module information on your Asus board it is because motherboards produced beginning with the P3B-F block software from detecting these devices after boot. SiSoft has no idea why Asus has done …