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Term
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Description
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Warm Boot
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Resetting or restarting a computer that is
already on without turning off the power. It restarts the computer without
going through the entire POST. This is accomplished by pushing CTRL+ALT+DEL,
using restart on the shut down menu, or pushing the restart button on the
front of the computer.
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Watts
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A measurment of the electrical power in a
circuit. Today's computers will usually have a power supply that puts out 250
- 350 Watts
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Write Precompensation
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In older hard drives, there were the same number
of sectors near the center of the platter or disk as there was in the outer
tracks. To get the same number of bits in each sector, the bits had to be
placed closer together in the center tracks. One method devised to solve this
problem was to increase the speed that the read/write heads wrote to the disk
as they got closer to the center tracks. This was called Write
Precompensation. Another method was called Reduced Write Current.
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