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  2. Option ROM - Wikipedia

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    An option ROM for the PC platform (i.e. the IBM PC and derived successor computer systems) is a piece of firmware that resides in ROM on an expansion card (or stored along with the main system BIOS), which gets executed to initialize the device and (optionally) add support for the device to the BIOS.

  3. PCI configuration space - Wikipedia

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    One of the major improvements the PCI Local Bus had over other I/O architectures was its configuration mechanism. In addition to the normal memory-mapped and I/O port spaces, each device function on the bus has a configuration space, which is 256 bytes long, addressable by knowing the eight-bit PCI bus, five-bit device, and three-bit function numbers for the device (commonly referred to as the ...

  4. Peripheral Component Interconnect - Wikipedia

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    Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) [3] is a local computer bus for attaching hardware devices in a computer and is part of the PCI Local Bus standard. The PCI bus supports the functions found on a processor bus but in a standardized format that is independent of any given processor's native bus.

  5. Non-maskable interrupt - Wikipedia

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    An NMI is often used when response time is critical or when an interrupt should never be disabled during normal system operation. Such uses include reporting non-recoverable hardware errors, system debugging and profiling, and handling of special cases like system resets.

  6. Message Signaled Interrupts - Wikipedia

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    Being message-based (at the PCI Express layer), this mechanism provides some, but not all, of the advantages of the PCI layer MSI mechanism: the 4 virtual pins per device are no longer shared on the bus (although PCI Express controllers may still combine legacy interrupts internally), and interrupt changes no longer inherently suffer from race ...

  7. Colorado snow forecast: Multiple feet expected in the Rockies ...

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    Editor's note: Follow USA TODAY's Wednesday coverage of the Thanksgiving 2024 weather forecast and travel updates.. Heavy snow showers of 1 to 2 feet are expected to blanket in the Colorado ...

  8. Bitcoin vaults to all-time peak as Trump election raises ...

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    LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) -Bitcoin surged to a record above $87,000 on Monday in a blistering rally amid expectations cryptocurrencies will thrive in a light-touch regulatory environment following ...

  9. BIOS interrupt call - Wikipedia

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    BIOS interrupt calls perform hardware control or I/O functions requested by a program, return system information to the program, or do both. A key element of the purpose of BIOS calls is abstraction - the BIOS calls perform generally defined functions, and the specific details of how those functions are executed on the particular hardware of the system are encapsulated in the BIOS and hidden ...