Index_B

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B

Baby AT motherboards, 38–39

Backup battery, 38 (fig.), 40 (fig.)

Backup utility

Windows 2000, 386

Windows 9.x, 323–324

Windows NT, 357

Windows XP, 463

Basic and dynamic disks, Windows 2000, 388

Batteries

CMOS, 38 (fig.), 40 (fig.), 47

lithium ion, 125

NiCAD, 124

NiMH, 124–125

BEDO DRAM (Burst EDO DRAM), 85

Bidirectional parallel communications, 143

Binary files, 280

Binary number system, 104–105

BIOS (Basic Input/Output Services)

defined, 500

EEPROM chips, 49

EPROM chips, 48

functions of, 48

Plug-and-Play devices, 49

POST error codes, 49–50

PROM chips, 48

ROM, 48, 83–84, 94–95

Windows XP upgrade, 452

Bits and bytes, as size units, 82–83

BMP images, 140

BNCs (Bayonet Nut Connectors), 203, 231, 501

BOOT.INI

Windows 2000, 380

Windows ME, 417

Windows NT, 347, 348

Windows XP, 459, 466

BOOTLOG.TXT (Win9.x), 309

Bootup

boot issues, Windows NT, 348–349

boot loader, 168

bootable floppy disks, 163, 292

to DOS, 279–280

to system restore point (Windows ME), 424–425

See also Dual boot systems

BRI (Basic Rate Interface), 241

Bridges

network, 227, 235

PCI, 54, 66

Windows XP, 474

Buffers

chipsets, 66

FIFO buffering, 117

print queues, 144–145

Bus

address bus, 65

clock and bus speeds, 64

controller chip, 66

expansion bus architecture, 50–54

external data bus, 64

mastering, 110

MCA, 138

topology, 203, 230–231

Byte mode (SPP), parallel communications, 144

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