MEMORY, DMA, IO, IRQ IS COMPLETELY CONFUSING ME

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IN SIMPLE TERMS, CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN WHAT MEMORY, DMA, IO AND IRQ IS? THE
PROCESS OF CONFIGURING THEM ARE COMPLETELY CONFUSING ME
 
The Explanation would take up too much room on here...............use google
and do a search for each one and you will come up with explanations.

Your Hardware Config error can usually be solved by resetting your BIOS
.....this entails shutting down,pulling the plug from the wall,opening the
case of the system,finding and removing the CMOS battery for approx 5
min,reinserting the battery....restart the system and enter the BIOS.
At this point you need to know your processor speed and memory settings.The
BIOS should actually auto detect all this but you need to double check.
If this fails to work please post back listing your computer parts in
particular motherboard make and model as well as everything attached to it.
Also what happened to cause this problem.

peter
 
PATSYBEVINS said:
IN SIMPLE TERMS, CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN WHAT MEMORY, DMA, IO AND IRQ IS? THE
PROCESS OF CONFIGURING THEM ARE COMPLETELY CONFUSING ME
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Memory: two definitions. Just your RAM is considered memory. In windows,
your RAM (physical memory) and a reserved amount of space on the hard drive
(virtual memory) is considered memory.

DMA: Direct Memory Access. This is a chip on the motherboard that moves
data without checking with the onboard cpu for that right.

I/O: Input/Output. This is general data movement on your PC. Which
includes data in and out of the CPU, the hard drives, floppies, CD/DVDs and
so forth; and finally RAM itself.

IRQ: Interrupt Request. This is a request to move data on a bus. There are
8 per chip, and two chips responsible. Windows XP has altered this usage
with software.
 
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