Exam 5: Ram

What is the Blue Screen of Death (BSoD)?

Intel has proposed a memory standard called _______________ as of this writing that would bridge the gap between DDR3 and DDR4.

What component is probably at fault if a real parity/ECC error shows up at the same place in memory each time?

Describe the RAM requirements and recommendations for the Linux OS.

Which are DDR3 I/O speeds related to clock speeds?

How do "memory" errors show up on modern systems?

Latency numbers reflect how many ticks of the _______________ occur before the RAM responds.

DDR SDRAM for laptops comes in _______________.

A non-maskable interrupt (NMI) is simply defined as an interruption the _______________ cannot ignore.

Describe the necessary steps to enhance system performance using ReadyBoost.

When the CPU needs certain bytes of data, it requests those bytes via the _______________ bus.

What is a primary cause of a general protection fault (GPF)?

What is stored on the serial presence detect (SPD) chip?

On laptops that used the 72-pin SO-DIMM, _______________ sticks of RAM needed to be installed to make a full bank, because each stick only provided half the bus width.

As CPU data bus sizes increased, DRAM manufacturers responded by creating wider DRAM chips, such as ×4, ×8, and ×16, and putting multiples of them on a small circuit board called a(n) _______________ or module.

Of the three major operating systems, Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, which one(s) use virtual memory?

GDDR3 is a type of memory used solely in _______________ cards.

What information does the CPU-Z freeware program provide?

When Intel was developing the Pentium 4, they replaced SDRAM with a very fast, new type of RAM developed by Rambus, Inc., called Rambus DRAM, or simply _______________.

What is RAM count and how is it used to verify the successful installation of RAM?