Lesson 1 - Chapter 4: Installing and Configuring

Question 1

What are 3 possible issues you may run into when installing a video card?

1. It’s
2. Too
3. Requires

Answer 1

1. It’s too long (blocks motherboard connectors) or just won’t fit in the case
2. Too close to another card (it needs ventilation bc it runs hot)
3. Requires an additional PCI power connector or needs a Molex too PCI converter

Question 2

When choosing a display driver source, what should you avoid as it tends to be the most out of date?

Answer 2

avoid using the driver that comes with Windows

Question 3

Having the latest driver updates helps you avoid what with applications?

Answer 3

crashes

Question 4

A drawback of LCD displays is that they only look good…

Answer 4

at their highest resolution (makes text and icons very small)

Question 5

What is resolution?

Answer 5

the number of horizontal and vertical pixels that make up the display

Question 6

What is refresh rate?

Answer 6

the number of times per second the computer sends updated video data to the display

Question 7

Low refresh rates can cause what? On what type of monitors?

Answer 7

Can cause flickering on CRTs but not an issue on LCDs

Question 8

What is an interlaced refresh rate?

Answer 8

each refresh acts on every other line (requires less processing and can speed up displays that share main RAM pool)

Question 9

What does bit depth mean?

Answer 9

the same as color depth (can’t change it in modern Windows)

Question 10

What 3 things define the display mode?

Answer 10

1. bit/color depth
2. resolution
3. refresh rate

Question 11

What is ClearType?

Answer 11

a Windows feature that is designed to improve the look of text in some apps when you adjust the scaling for text/icons