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P-CAV (Partial CAV)
P8 and P9 connectors, caution with
packet writing
2nd
support for CD writers
packet-writing software
caution with
vs. premastering software
2nd
paddles
Panasonic
DVD drives
SuperDisk drives
[See SuperDisk drives]
parallel ports
connectors and cables for
hardware connected to, configuring
mapping to LPTs
recommendations for
Zip drive and
parallel tape drives
Parallel Technologies
2nd
parity
parity memory
2nd
Partial CAV (P-CAV)
Partition Magic (PowerQuest)
partitioning hard drives
passive SCSI terminators
PC 2001
PC 99
PC Power & Cooling
2nd
PC100/PC133 SDRAM
PCI
2nd
buses
expansion slots/cards
2nd
handling interrupts
video adapters
choosing/recommended
interfaces for
PCI Bus IRQ Steering
PCM (Pulse Coded Modulation)
PCs
booting and, caution with memory
building
2nd
problems with
bus support, components for
cables and
choosing
components, OEM versions
cost of
design guides for
mice and trackballs for
sound adapters/cards and
tools for repairing
upgrading
[See upgrading PCs]
uses for old models
warranties for
working on
[See working on PCs]
PD (Phase Change Dual Optical) drives
Peak Power
Peerless drive (Iomega)
pels (pixels)
Pentium processors
2nd
3rd
recommendations for
secondary (L2) cache
upgrading
2nd
Peripheral Component Interconnect
[See PCI]
Peripheral Connectors
PFC (power-factor-corrected)
Phase Change Dual Optical (PD) drives
Phoenix (BIOS manufacturer)
2nd
phosphor dots
physical formats of writable CDs
physical formatting
physical modeling synthesis
PIC (Programmable Interrupt Controller)
picture elements (pixels)
pin 1
2nd
floppy disk drives, installing
motherboards, installing
SCSI hard disks, installing
socketed processors, installing
pin 11 (remote sensing)
pinouts
cables for floppy disk drives
caution with
LPX
serial cables and
pins
+5Vsb/-5VDC
power supplies and
PIO (Programmed I/O)
compatibility and
pipeline burst, cache type
pipelining
pixels
2nd
planar boards
[See motherboards]
Plastic Pin Grid Array (PPGA)
platters, in hard disk drives
Plextor
CD-RW drives
PlexWriter drive
SCSI CD-ROM drives
PlexWriter drive (Plextor)
Plug-n-Play (PnP)
2nd
configuring displays
plugs (male connectors)
PM (Primary Master), installing ATAPI drives
PnP
[See Plug-n-Play]
PocketZip drive
Point of View hat (POV hat)
Pointers page
pointing devices
port extenders
ports
purchasing motherboards and
power connectors
power cord
2nd
power-factor-corrected (PFC)
power management
power supplies
2nd
caution with
choosing/recommended
2nd
cleaning
compared
connectors for
floppy disk drives and
installing
2nd
3rd
motherboards and, installing
testing
troubleshooting
upgrading
voltages and, caution for
power-supplies-to-device connectors
PowerQuest
DriveCopy
Partition Magic
PPGA (Plastic Pin Grid Array)
prefetches
premastering software
vs. packet-writing software
2nd
primary cache
memory
Primary Master (PM), installing ATAPI drives
Pro-FD drives (Samsung)
processor bus
processor bus speed
processor speed
motherboards and, support for
processors
2nd
AMD
[See AMD processors]
architecture of
Celeron
[See Celeron processors]
chipset support and
2nd
choosing/recommended
2nd
components of
generations of
installing
2nd
slotted processors
socketed processors
Intel
multiple support for
overclocking
Pentium
[See Pentium processors]
support types
transfers, managing
upgrading
profiles, stored in game controllers
Programmable Interrupt Controller (PIC)
Programmed I/O (PIO)
compatibility and
programs
[See software]
Promise Technology
Properties dialog
<device-name>
hard disk drives and
keyboards and
mice/trackballs and
Properties sheet
proportional responses
proprietary motherboards
protocol-based DRAM
PS/2 keyboard interfaces
2nd
PS/2 mouse interface
pthalocyanine dye, in CD-R blanks
Pulse Coded Modulation (PCM)
PW_OK (pin 8)
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