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  2. Power-on self-test - Wikipedia

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    BIOS POST card for ISA bus BIOS POST card for PCI bus Professional BIOS POST card for PCI bus Two POST seven-segment displays integrated on a computer motherboard. The original IBM BIOS made POST diagnostic information available by outputting a number to I/O port 0x80 (a screen display was not possible with some failure modes). Both progress ...

  3. System crash screen - Wikipedia

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    By far, this is the most famous screen of death. Black Screens of Death are used by several systems. One is a failure mode of Windows 3.x. One appears when the bootloader for Windows Vista and later fails. In early Windows 11 previews, the Blue Screen of Death was changed to black. [1]

  4. 16-pin 12VHPWR connector - Wikipedia

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    The 16-pin 12VHPWR connector is a standard for connecting graphics processing units (GPUs) to computer power supplies for up to 600 W power delivery. It was introduced by Nvidia in 2022 to supersede the previous 6- and 8-pin power connectors for GPUs. The stated aim was to cater to the increasing power requirements of Nvidia GPUs.

  5. List of AMD graphics processing units - Wikipedia

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    11 2002 Radeon 9700 R420: 130 nm 110 nm 9.0b 11 (FL 9_2) 2004 Radeon X800 R520: 90 nm 80 nm 9.0c 11 (FL 9_3) 2005 Radeon X1800 R600: TeraScale 1: 80 nm 65 nm 3.3 10.0 11 (FL 10_0) ATI Stream: 2007 Radeon HD 2900 XT RV670: 55 nm 10.1 11 (FL 10_1) ATI Stream APP [19] Radeon HD 3850/3870 RV770: 55 nm 40 nm 1.0 2008 Radeon HD 4850/4870 Evergreen ...

  6. Blue screen of death - Wikipedia

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    Windows 3.1 displays a black screen of death instead of a blue one. [21] Some versions of macOS (notably OS X Lion) display a black screen of death instead of a kernel panic, usually pointed to a graphics card or sleep/wake issue, [40] it may also display a black screen when the operating system fails to boot properly. [41]

  7. Power supply unit (computer) - Wikipedia

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    The system power consumption is a sum of the power ratings for all of the components of the computer system that draw on the power supply. Some graphics cards (especially multiple cards) and large groups of hard drives can place very heavy demands on the 12 V lines of the PSU, and for these loads, the PSU's 12 V rating is crucial.

  8. PS-ON Signal - Wikipedia

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    #PS_ON pin is marked by number 16. PS-ON Signal is a pin on a 20-pin or 24-pin ATX-specified power connector used to turn a personal computer power supply unit on/off. The PS_ON pin is normally pulled high in an open-circuit, but will turn on the power supply when it is pulled low, by shorting it to the common signal (COM).

  9. Graphics card - Wikipedia

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    A modern consumer graphics card: A Radeon RX 6900 XT from AMD. A graphics card (also called a video card, display card, graphics accelerator, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, display adapter, or colloquially GPU) is a computer expansion card that generates a feed of graphics output to a display device such as a monitor.