Thursday, January 31, 2008

PROCEDURE ON DVD RECORDING


1. DVD recorders in the closet should be on already and should not be turned off. If the power happens to be off, press the power button to turn the machine on, but there is a time lag of 5-10 minutes before the machine is ready to record.

2. Press the [OPEN/CLOSE] button to open the DVD drive bay and insert the DVD-Ram disk. Do not use DVD-R, DVD-RW, or CD-RW disks.

3. Press the [OPEN/CLOSE] button again to close the drive.

4. Press the [CHANNEL UP / DOWN] button to set the recorder to your office channel.

5. Press the [RECORD] button to begin recording.

6. Flip the camera switch in your office to [ON] after the client gives their consent to be recorded.

7. When recording is finished, press the [STOP] button.

8. Press the [OPEN/ CLOSE] button to open the drive door and remove the disk from the drive. Press the [OPEN/ CLOSE] button again to close the drive

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Socket A / socket 462


Socket A (also known as Socket 462) is the CPU socket used for AMD processors ranging from the Athlon Thunderbird to the Athlon XP/MP 3200+, and AMD budget processors including the Duron and Sempron. Socket A also supports the recent AMD Geode NX embedded processors (derived from the Mobile Athlon XP). The socket is a zero insertion force pin grid array type with 453 pins (nine pins are blocked in the socket to prevent accidental insertion of Socket 370 CPUs, hence the number 462). The front side bus frequencies supported for the AMD Athlon XP and Sempron are 133 MHz, 166 MHz, and 200 MHz.
AMD recommends that the mass of a Socket A CPU cooler not exceed 300
grams (10.6 ounces). Heavier coolers may result in damage to the die when the system is not properly handled.
Socket A has been discontinued in favor of
Socket 754, Socket 939, and recently Socket AM2, except for its use with Geode NX processors. However, microprocessors and motherboards from many vendors are still available

Socket 563


Socket 563 is a microPGA CPU socket used exclusively for low-power (16 W and 25 W TDP) Athlon XP-M processors (Models 8 & 10).
This socket can usually be found on
laptops and requires a low-power mobile part in a special 563-pin µPGA package which is different from the Socket A (453 pin) package used for other Athlon processors.
There exists
desktop computer motherboards equipped with socket 563. PCChips is known to have marketed such a board, the M863G Ver3 (actually made by ECS), bundled with a socket 563 processor and a heatsink.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Socket 603


Socket 603
is a motherboard socket for Intel's Xeon processor.

Socket 603 was designed by Intel as a Zero Insertion Force socket intended for workstations and server platforms. It contains 603 contacts arrayed about the center of the socket, each contact has a 1.96mm pitch with regular pin array, to mate with a 603-pin processor package. Intel's design notes distinguish Socket 603 from Socket 604 as low cost, low risk, robust, high volume manufacturable, and multi-sourceable.[1]

All Socket 603 processors utilize a bus speed of 400 MHz and were manufactured in either a 180 nm process, or 130 nm process. Socket 603 processors can be inserted into Socket 604 designed motherboards, but Socket 604 processors cannot be inserted into Socket 603 designed motherboards due to one additional pin being present. Currently, Socket 603 processors range from 1.4 GHz, to 3 GHz.

Socket 775


On June 22nd Intel launched their socket-775 platform which meant the introduction of a new socket for Pentium 4 processors and two new chipsets. Initially we were skeptic about the new socket-775, many of the motherboard manufacturers we talked to described it as fragile and they were expecting many product returns due to customers damaging the socket. In the past few months we’ve worked with quite a few socket-775 motherboards and we can honestly say that socket-775 isn’t as fragile as we thought. If you insert and remove the processor as intended you won’t damage the socket, nor will it cease to function after a few insertions.

Socket 479


Socket 479 is the CPU socket for the Intel Pentium M, a mobile processor, normally used in laptops, as well as Tualatin-M Pentium III processors. The official naming by Intel is mFCPGA and mPGA479M. Despite the 479 in the name the Pentium M Processors for this socket use only 478 Pins.

It uses a different electrical pin-arrangement from socket 478, making it impossible to use a Pentium M in a normal 478 board, but yet the Pentium M fits mechanical in a Socket 478. For this reason Asus makes a drop-in board (CT-479) which lets you use socket 479 processors in selected Asus boards. Currently, the only chipsets for the Pentium M are the Intel 855GM/GME, Intel 915GM and Intel 6300ESB. While the Intel 855GME chipset supports all Pentium M CPU's, the Intel 855GM chipset does not support the 90nm 2MB L2 cache (Dothan core) ones.

Recently, Intel has released a new socket 479 with a revised pinout for its Core processor, called Socket M. This socket has the placement of one pin changed from the original Socket 479 in order to make the different processors incompatible in the incorrect socket. Socket M supports a 667 MT/s front side bus with the Intel 945GM chipset.

Socket 423



Socket 423
was a CPU socket used for the first Pentium 4 processors, based on the Willamette core. The socket was short-lived, as it became apparent that its electrical design proved inadequate for raising clock speed beyond 2.0 GHz. Intel produced chips using this socket for less than a year, from November 2000 to August 2001. It was replaced by Socket 478.

The "PowerLeap PL-P4/N" is a device developed in the form of a socket adapter allowing the use of socket 478 processors on the socket 423.

Along with the socket these CPUs use (and therefore the motherboards), there is another short lived and odd piece of hardware: the RAM. The type of RAM used on some of these motherboards is RDRAM. This type of RAM is now very expensive, ranging from $US54 for 128MB to $US214 for 512MB. These sticks of RAM also must be installed in pairs, similar to SIMMs in older classic Pentium systems.