World Magazine 2023

Floppy Disk Has No Boot Sector If you have arrived here through a search engine, and there’s no menu to the left click here! Explanation: The BIOS POST process found a floppy disk to try and boot and operating system, however it couldn’t locate a boot sector from which to …

Binary and Decimal Byte “Equivalents” If you have arrived here through a search engine, and there’s no menu to the left, click here! It is an interesting coincidence that every tenth power of two is approximately equal to every third power of ten. This has resulted in two different definitions …

Creating an Emergency Repair Disk (ERD) for Windows® 2000 An Emergency Repair Disk (ERD) contains information about your computer’s setup and the files that have been installed. Though a Microsoft® Windows® 2000 based computer rarely crashes, it is possible. Be prepared! If you create an ERD after installation of the …

Microsoft Data Access Component “MDAC” Issues and Articles There are presently three releases of MDAC that are available: Two releases for MDAC 2.1 and the Release To Manufacturing (RTM) release of MDAC 2.5. You can also review and download the release manifests for MDAC. A Release Manifest is designed to …

100 Pin DIMM 100 Pin DIMMs are primarily used in printers. It comes in both 64 bit and 72bit ECC configurations, and is available in memory ranges of 16 to 128 megabytes. The SDRAM chips used on the 100 Pin DIMM are typically SDRAM in TSOP packaging. Both FPM and …

SiSoft Sandra Compatibility List This document contains a list of devices on which the latest version of Sandra has been successfully tested. It should be noted that this is not to be construed as a complete list, as that is just not feasible. Hardware devices supported indirectly through their drivers …

Keyboard Clock Line Failure If you have arrived here through a search engine, and there’s no menu to the left click here! Explanation: The clock line is one of the control lines between the keyboard and the keyboard controller that interfaces the keyboard to the motherboard. Diagnosis: There is a …

1. This processor is in S.E.C.C. form factor 2. This processor is in S.E.C.C.2. form factor 3. This processor has a core voltage of 2.8V 4. This processor has a core voltage of 2.0V 5. This processor’s L2 cache has a 512MB address range 6. This processor’s L2 cache has …

RAMBUS DRAM PERFORMANCE Lowest Latency with the Highest Bandwidth by Nick Schwartzman Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. Courtesy: Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. If you have arrived here through a search engine, and there’s no menu to the left click here! DRAM performance is measured with two metrics: bandwidth and latency. Surprisingly, one type …

Most Common Problems Incurred when using New Drives in machines with Older BIOS’s If you have arrived here through a search engine, and there’s no menu to the left click here! When you install a hard disk into a computer system that is larger than that which the BIOS is …