[SYMBOL] [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [X] [Y] [Z] P-CAV (Partial CAV) P8 and P9 connectors, caution with packet writing 2nd support for CD writers packet-writing software caution with vs. premastering software 2nd paddles Panasonic DVD drives SuperDisk drives [See SuperDisk drives] parallel ports connectors and cables for hardware connected to, configuring mapping to LPTs recommendations for Zip drive and parallel tape drives Parallel Technologies 2nd parity parity memory 2nd Partial CAV (P-CAV) Partition Magic (PowerQuest) partitioning hard drives passive SCSI terminators PC 2001 PC 99 PC Power & Cooling 2nd PC100/PC133 SDRAM PCI 2nd buses expansion slots/cards 2nd handling interrupts video adapters choosing/recommended interfaces for PCI Bus IRQ Steering PCM (Pulse Coded Modulation) PCs booting and, caution with memory building 2nd problems with bus support, components for cables and choosing components, OEM versions cost of design guides for mice and trackballs for sound adapters/cards and tools for repairing upgrading [See upgrading PCs] uses for old models warranties for working on [See working on PCs] PD (Phase Change Dual Optical) drives Peak Power Peerless drive (Iomega) pels (pixels) Pentium processors 2nd 3rd recommendations for secondary (L2) cache upgrading 2nd Peripheral Component Interconnect [See PCI] Peripheral Connectors PFC (power-factor-corrected) Phase Change Dual Optical (PD) drives Phoenix (BIOS manufacturer) 2nd phosphor dots physical formats of writable CDs physical formatting physical modeling synthesis PIC (Programmable Interrupt Controller) picture elements (pixels) pin 1 2nd floppy disk drives, installing motherboards, installing SCSI hard disks, installing socketed processors, installing pin 11 (remote sensing) pinouts cables for floppy disk drives caution with LPX serial cables and pins +5Vsb/-5VDC power supplies and PIO (Programmed I/O) compatibility and pipeline burst, cache type pipelining pixels 2nd planar boards [See motherboards] Plastic Pin Grid Array (PPGA) platters, in hard disk drives Plextor CD-RW drives PlexWriter drive SCSI CD-ROM drives PlexWriter drive (Plextor) Plug-n-Play (PnP) 2nd configuring displays plugs (male connectors) PM (Primary Master), installing ATAPI drives PnP [See Plug-n-Play] PocketZip drive Point of View hat (POV hat) Pointers page pointing devices port extenders ports purchasing motherboards and power connectors power cord 2nd power-factor-corrected (PFC) power management power supplies 2nd caution with choosing/recommended 2nd cleaning compared connectors for floppy disk drives and installing 2nd 3rd motherboards and, installing testing troubleshooting upgrading voltages and, caution for power-supplies-to-device connectors PowerQuest DriveCopy Partition Magic PPGA (Plastic Pin Grid Array) prefetches premastering software vs. packet-writing software 2nd primary cache memory Primary Master (PM), installing ATAPI drives Pro-FD drives (Samsung) processor bus processor bus speed processor speed motherboards and, support for processors 2nd AMD [See AMD processors] architecture of Celeron [See Celeron processors] chipset support and 2nd choosing/recommended 2nd components of generations of installing 2nd slotted processors socketed processors Intel multiple support for overclocking Pentium [See Pentium processors] support types transfers, managing upgrading profiles, stored in game controllers Programmable Interrupt Controller (PIC) Programmed I/O (PIO) compatibility and programs [See software] Promise Technology Properties dialog <device-name> hard disk drives and keyboards and mice/trackballs and Properties sheet proportional responses proprietary motherboards protocol-based DRAM PS/2 keyboard interfaces 2nd PS/2 mouse interface pthalocyanine dye, in CD-R blanks Pulse Coded Modulation (PCM) PW_OK (pin 8) |