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RJSmith92

Member for 9 years, 8 months
Last seen more than 3 years ago

19 Questions

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23 votes

2 answers

7k views

Does the BIOS have some sort of generic 'drivers'

asked Oct 15, 2013 at 11:13

11 votes

1 answer

3k views

Will a USB 2.0 device charge faster plugged into a USB 3.0 port? [duplicate]

asked Nov 14, 2015 at 16:41

10 votes

1 answer

13k views

What does an ACPI BIOS configure during boot?

asked Nov 10, 2013 at 20:37

6 votes

2 answers

2k views

Why can't PCIe devices share lanes?

asked Apr 19, 2014 at 19:28

6 votes

2 answers

14k views

PCI BAR memory addresses

asked Apr 26, 2014 at 20:50

5 votes

1 answer

33k views

Is it safe to use one 6 + 2 PCIe power cable to GPU

asked Dec 25, 2014 at 1:10

5 votes

2 answers

7k views

How Windows uses .inf files to load the correct drivers

asked Jul 10, 2015 at 18:25

4 votes

1 answer

6k views

How BIOS extensions (option ROMs) work?

asked Apr 27, 2014 at 22:36

4 votes

3 answers

4k views

How mouse button re-mappings work?

asked May 3, 2014 at 15:43

3 votes

1 answer

2k views

How interrupts and privilege levels work?

asked Oct 18, 2013 at 11:40

3 votes

1 answer

2k views

How are reserved and ACPI NVS memory sizes counted?

asked Apr 7, 2014 at 21:26

2 votes

1 answer

2k views

Can Windows change your monitor's refresh rate?

asked Nov 26, 2015 at 22:09

2 votes

2 answers

904 views

How does the BIOS disable a controller on the motherboard?

asked Oct 8, 2013 at 20:37

2 votes

2 answers

1k views

Why is this memory range on the PCI bus?

asked Mar 1, 2014 at 23:54

1 vote

1 answer

150 views

Upgrading secondary HDD - Copy/paste sufficient?

asked Jun 13, 2017 at 20:52

1 vote

2 answers

6k views

Does a PCIe 8pin power cable use just one 12V rail.

asked Aug 28, 2015 at 1:08

1 vote

1 answer

65 views

What piece of hardware has failed?

asked Dec 21, 2013 at 12:38

1 vote

0 answers

1k views

How shared graphics memory works?

asked Feb 16, 2014 at 23:10

0 votes

2 answers

3k views

How Supersampling Anti-Aliasing works?

asked Jul 17, 2015 at 18:34