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  2. Hot swapping - Wikipedia

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    Hot swapping is used whenever it is desirable to change the configuration or repair a working system without interrupting its operation. [3] It may simply be for convenience of avoiding the delay and nuisance of shutting down and then restarting complex equipment or because it is essential for equipment, such as a server, to be continuously active.

  3. CPU socket - Wikipedia

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    CPU sockets are used on the motherboard in desktop and server computers. Because they allow easy swapping of components, they are also used for prototyping new circuits. Laptops typically use surface-mount CPUs, which take up less space on the motherboard than a socketed part.

  4. Motherboard - Wikipedia

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    Dell Precision T3600 System Motherboard, used in professional CAD Workstations. Manufactured in 2012. A motherboard (also called mainboard, main circuit board, MB, mobo, base board, system board, or, in Apple computers, logic board) is the main printed circuit board (PCB) in general-purpose computers and other expandable systems.

  5. UEFI - Wikipedia

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    At this point, the kernel can change processor modes if it desires, but this bars usage of the runtime services (unless the kernel switches back again). [ 37 ] : sections 2.3.2 and 2.3.4 As of version 3.15, the Linux kernel supports 64-bit kernels to be booted on 32-bit UEFI firmware implementations running on x86-64 CPUs, with UEFI handover ...

  6. Advanced Host Controller Interface - Wikipedia

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    Out of the Advanced options, if Startup Repair option is selected, Windows attempts to fix the issue and the PC begins to function normally. A similar problem can occur on Linux systems if the AHCI driver is compiled as a kernel module rather than built into the kernel image , as it may not be included in the initrd (initial RAM disk) created ...

  7. BIOS - Wikipedia

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    The motherboard BIOS scans for extension ROMs in a portion of the "upper memory area" (the part of the x86 real-mode address space at and above address 0xA0000) and runs each ROM found, in order. To discover memory-mapped option ROMs, a BIOS implementation scans the real-mode address space from 0x0C0000 to 0x0F0000 on 2 KB (2,048 bytes ...

  8. Jumper (computing) - Wikipedia

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    They are typically used to set up or configure printed circuit boards, such as the motherboards of computers. The process of setting a jumper is often called strapping. [citation needed] A strapping option is a hardware configuration setting usually sensed only during power-up or bootstrapping of a device (or even a single chip). [1]

  9. Backplane - Wikipedia

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    When a backplane is used with a plug-in single-board computer (SBC) or system host board (SHB), the combination provides the same functionality as a motherboard, providing processing power, memory, I/O and slots for plug-in cards. While there are a few motherboards that offer more than 8 slots, that is the traditional limit.