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  2. Power-on self-test - Wikipedia

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    Macs made after 1987 but prior to 1998, upon failing the POST, will immediately halt with a "death chime", which is a sound that varies by model; it can be a simple beep, a car crash sound, the sound of shattering glass, a short musical tone, or more. On the screen, if working, will be the Sad Mac icon, along with two hexadecimal strings, which ...

  3. Buzzer - Wikipedia

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    Sounds commonly used to indicate that a button has been pressed are a click, a ring or a beep. Interior of a readymade loudspeaker, showing a piezoelectric-disk-beeper (With 3 electrodes ... including 1 feedback-electrode ( the central, small electrode joined with red wire in this photo), and an oscillator to self-drive the buzzer.

  4. Beep (sound) - Wikipedia

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    A beep is a short, single tone, typically high-pitched, generally made by a computer or other machine. The term has its origin in onomatopoeia. The word "beep-beep" is recorded for the noise of a car horn in 1929, and the modern usage of "beep" for a high-pitched tone is attributed to Arthur C. Clarke in 1951. [1]

  5. Asus - Wikipedia

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    ASUS Republic of Gamers logo An ASUS promotional model presenting ROG products. ASUS Republic of Gamers (ASUS ROG) is a brand used by ASUS since 2006, encompassing a range of computer hardware, personal computers, peripherals, and accessories. AMD graphics cards were marketed under the Arez brand due to the Nvidia's GeForce Partner Program. [56]

  6. Piezoelectric speaker - Wikipedia

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    A piezoelectric speaker (also known as a piezo bender due to its mode of operation, and sometimes colloquially called a "piezo", buzzer, crystal loudspeaker or beep speaker) is a loudspeaker that uses the piezoelectric effect for generating sound. The initial mechanical motion is created by applying a voltage to a piezoelectric material, and ...

  7. Entropy (computing) - Wikipedia

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    In computing, entropy is the randomness collected by an operating system or application for use in cryptography or other uses that require random data. This randomness is often collected from hardware sources (variance in fan noise or HDD), either pre-existing ones such as mouse movements or specially provided randomness generators.

  8. Click (acoustics) - Wikipedia

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    When recording through an audio interface, insufficient computer performance or audio driver issues can cause clicks, pops and dropouts. They can result from improper clock sources [3] and buffer size. Also, clicks can be caused by electric devices near the computer or by faulty audio or mains cables. [4]

  9. Fn key - Wikipedia

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    The Fn key is a form of meta-modifier key, in that it causes the operating system to see altered scancodes when other keys on the keyboard are pressed. This allows the keyboard to directly emulate a full-sized keyboard, so the operating system can use standard keymaps designed for a full-sized keyboard. However, because the operating system has ...