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  2. Horizontal blanking interval - Wikipedia

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    Some modern monitors and video cards support reduced blanking, standardized with Coordinated Video Timings. [ 3 ] In the PAL television standard, the blanking level corresponds to the black level , whilst other standards, most notably some variants of NTSC, may set the black level slightly above the blanking level on a pedestal or "set up level".

  3. DisplayPort - Wikipedia

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    DisplayPort connector A DisplayPort port (top right) on a laptop from 2010, near an Ethernet port (center) and a USB port (bottom right). DisplayPort (DP) is a proprietary [a] digital display interface developed by a consortium of PC and chip manufacturers and standardized by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA).

  4. Power-on self-test - Wikipedia

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    A modern PC with a bus rate of around 1 GHz and a 32-bit bus might be 2000x or even 5000x faster, but might have many more gigabytes of memory. With boot times more of a concern now than in the 1980s, the 30- to 60-second memory test adds undesirable delay for a benefit of confidence that is not perceived to be worth that cost by most users.

  5. Power supply unit (computer) - Wikipedia

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    A power supply unit (PSU) converts mains AC to low-voltage regulated DC power for the internal components of a desktop computer. Modern personal computers universally use switched-mode power supplies. Some power supplies have a manual switch for selecting input voltage, while others automatically adapt to the main voltage.

  6. Computer cooling - Wikipedia

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    A finned air cooled heatsink with fan clipped onto a CPU, with a smaller passive heatsink without fan in the background A 3-fan heatsink mounted on a video card to maximize cooling efficiency of the GPU and surrounding components Commodore 128DCR computer's switch-mode power supply, with a user-installed 60 mm cooling fan.

  7. Enhanced Graphics Adapter - Wikipedia

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    Conversely, an EGA monitor should work with a CGA adapter, but if it is not set to CGA mode, the secondary red signal will be grounded (always zero), and the secondary blue will be floating (unconnected), causing all high-intensity colors except brown to display incorrectly, and all colors to potentially have a variable blue tint due to the ...

  8. KVM switch - Wikipedia

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    There is no HID emulation or no EDID emulation/feeding to all connected systems. In addition, they're limited to having 2 systems connected to it. And only can control one monitor (the monitor itself only) with the built-in KVM switch. The built-in KVM switch CAN not support multi-monitor switching and control via it. [citation needed]

  9. Flat-panel display - Wikipedia

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    Volatile displays require that pixels be periodically refreshed to retain their state, even for a static image. As such, a volatile screen needs electrical power, either from mains electricity (being plugged into a wall socket) or a battery to maintain an image on the display or change the image. This refresh typically occurs many times a second.