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  2. Why is my computer so slow? - AOL

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    Faulty Hardware Components: Any malfunctioning hardware component, such as a faulty motherboard, power supply unit (PSU) or peripheral device (e.g., mouse, keyboard), can cause slow performance or ...

  3. Machine-check exception - Wikipedia

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    A failing motherboard or processor can be identified by swapping them with functioning parts. Memory can be checked by booting to a diagnostic tool, like memtest86 . Non-essential failing I/O devices and controllers can be identified by unplugging them if possible or disabling the devices to see if the problem disappears.

  4. Power-on self-test - Wikipedia

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    As part of the starting sequence the POST routines may display a prompt to the user for a key press to access built-in setup functions of the BIOS. This allows the user to set various options particular to the motherboard before the operating system is loaded.

  5. List of computer hardware manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    Arm Ltd. (sells designs only) Amazon (AWS Graviton is ARM-based); Apple Inc. (ARM-based CPUs) Broadcom Inc. (ARM-based, e.g. for Raspberry Pi) Fujitsu (its ARM-based CPU used in top supercomputer, still also sells its SPARC-based servers)

  6. Capacitor plague - Wikipedia

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    The motherboard manufacturer ABIT Computer Corp. was the only affected manufacturer that publicly admitted to defective capacitors obtained from Taiwan capacitor makers being used in its products. [16] However, the company would not reveal the name of the capacitor maker that supplied the faulty products.

  7. List of IOMMU-supporting hardware - Wikipedia

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    At least one Asus board [which?] is known to have faulty BIOSes with corrupt ACPI IVRS tables; for such cases, under Linux, it is possible to specify custom mappings to override the faulty and/or missing BIOS-provided ones through the use of the ivrs_ioapic and ivrs_hpet kernel parameters. [102]

  8. Should You Forget Nvidia and Buy This Tech Stock Instead? - AOL

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    Its tech is found in 5G connectivity equipment, automobiles, and, perhaps most notably, AI data centers that increasingly need entire walls of motherboards to work together as a single, massive ...

  9. Motherboard - Wikipedia

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    A typical motherboard will have a different number of connections depending on its standard and form factor. A standard, modern ATX motherboard will typically have two or three PCI-Express x16 connection for a graphics card, one or two legacy PCI slots for various expansion cards, and one or two PCI-E x1 (which has superseded PCI).