10 Hardest Computer hardware Questions

[DJE007]

My boss is after hard computer questions, every thing I have hit him with, he has an answer for.

Well we are getting some questions here; I will be more direct hardware questions, that have direct mean in today?s world of computing

 

[nicowju]

Here's 1... How do you bring a fried Tbird back to life?
Also, what is the dBa of a 38CFM delta 60mm fan?

 

[Killbat]

How do you install an RLL hard drive (with 8bit ISA controller) in a modern computer? (440BX chipset)

I really need to know!!! :Q

 

[DJE007]

With the jaws of life ?

 

[Marty]

What was the texel fill rate of the original Voodoo2 SLI?

Marty

 

[sharkeeper]

What is the viscosity (in cp) of Arctic Silver II TTC at 64 degrees Centigrade and 1013 mB pressure?

Cheers!

 

[dowxp]

give all the pentium stepping codes starting from the newest to the oldest.

 

[AncientPC]

Heh, don't you regret even asking?

 

[bockie]

Here is a question for the veterans...

What is SPISPOPD?

Where can it be found?

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Bockie

 

[DJE007]

Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles Of Putrid Debris ?

 

[bockie]

Jeez, quick with the response! Was that off the top of your head or from a web search?

I remember reading that faq back in '93. It was the first faq I ever read.

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Bockie

 

[DJE007]

Off the top of the head "of the first web page I found on it"

 

[Xanathar]

KillBat, check your shadow caching in your bios, specifially the C800 memory address range.

 

[BFG10K]

How many FPS does my system get in Quake 3 with my current settings?

 

[Shooters]

Here's one for real. Ask him how it is possible to create structures on microprocessors that are actually smaller than the wavelength of light that defines them. If he knows the answer to that one, then just stop asking.

 

[Xanathar]

Here are some good questions:
Where is the specific registry for IIS and what is it called?
How do you low level a MFM.RLL Drive with only the debug command?
How do you make a PCI 2.X card work in a first generation motherboard without Plug and Play in bios?
How do you get a Vesa SCSI/NIC Card to actually work?
What is the encoding on 10bt Ethernet?
What is the only networking media that can use multiple passive hubs in a star topology?
How do you load Novell 4.X drivers in 3.X ?
How do you make TCP/IP work in dos?
How long can you effectily run a parallel cable without converting it to serial?
whats the length of a USB cable?
What is the standard screw thread size in a rack cabinet?
How do you differentiate between a 15 amp, 20 amp, and 30 Amp 115Volt PC cable?
Why are computers beige?
how many bits is ECC Memory?
What is the encoding format on modern day drives?
What happens if you plug in a new LVD scsi drive into an old HVD controller?
What is the minimum ethernet cable length?
How many bits is 3DES Encryption?
Why doesnt everything work through NAT?
what is BusMastering?
What pins do you cut to permamently make a 100mhz p3 into a 133mhz p3?
Do you need an 8 or 16bit ISA slot for a 56K modem? ISDN modem?
How many parrallel ports can a PC have?
What is a Zoomed-Video Port?
Can a keyboard fry a computer?
How does a touchpad work?
how are BogoMips measured?
do P1-MMX processors support Dual operation?
do AMD K6 Processors support Dual?


Im tired, but heres a beginning list

 

[Doctorweir]

Just let him do RC5-64 without hardware (ok, except paper and pencil)...

 

[Soccerman]

Shooters, I believe the answer to that is YES, using some special techniques (that I don't remember the names).

 

[burnedout]

Can the 440 LX chipset run EDO DIMMs? 440 BX?

What's the pin count of socket 5 and socket 7?

What's the maximum memory capacity for the Intel TX chipset?

What's the default voltage for the Intel Socket 7 MMX CPU?

Name all 5 Intel Socket 5/7 chipsets in succession.

What were the code names for the socket 8 chipsets?

Except for the size, how is the cache different between a PIII CPU and an FC-PGA Celeron?

Which of the 6 chipsets were built into Dual CPU motherboards....... 440 FX, 440 LX, 440 EX, 440 ZX, 440 BX, i820

What does ASCII mean? Which peripheral initially implements it's use in the computing process?

How many pins are on a standard motherboard bios chip or Open Boot Prom?

What type of memory was the Intel 450 GX chipset designed to use? Which type of CPU?

What's the compatibility standard for the majority of CDROM drives? Hint ISO....

Name the three standard pin counts on SCSI peripherals.

With what processor did PCI slots first appear?

What's the pin count on a floppy drive cable?

<edit> Here's another. Can you run FAT 16 and FAT 32 partitions on the same hard drive? </edit>

Should be enough. At least one or two will get your boss.

 

[Shooters]

Obviously it's possible, but HOW is the question I'm asking.

 

[jamarno]

Killbat, you can usually do this by either disabling the IDE controller or by setting the 8-bit RLL card as the secondary, and since the ports are different, there are no hardware conflicts. Don't set the motherboard BIOS for automatic recognition; set it for either type 0 or type 1. But some BIOSes are incompatible with some RLL card BIOSes.

Western Digital should still have the documentation for their old RLL cards, or search the web for something called THEREF.

 

[Jiggz]

So back to the original post, Maybe the reason your boss can answer all the questions you threw him is because you only asked him questions you know the answer to.

 

[Degenerate]

Define a monitor.

 

[xtreme2k]

How many transistors are in a 2MB Coppermine Xeon?
What should you set your 'TCP receive window size' if your connection speed is 3MBit and has an averaged latency of 150ms?
What do you need to do to use Win2000 ICS with clients running ICQ that must be able to do ICQ chat/file receive?

 

[bex0rs]

What is teh computar?

~bex0rs