Best 59 Hardware Interview Questions
Some of the Best Hardware Questions Put together by FreshersHome.com. With the Help of Sharpened.net.
- Is it possible to increase the number of available PCI slots on my computer?
- How can I print to a printer connected to an Airport Base Station?
- What is the difference between the DVD-R and DVD+R formats?
- What is the difference between Firewire 1394a and 1394b?
- Can I put my computer (tower) on its side, or does it need to stand up?
- Why is my mouse jumpy?
- What is a lost cluster?
- Why is my monitor’s screen smaller than advertised?
- Why does a 20″ flat screen display have a larger screen than a 20″ CRT monitor?
- Can I hook up two computers to one display or monitor?
- If I hook up two monitors to my computer, can two people work on the system at the same time?
- What does it mean to defragment a hard disk?
- Are Zip disks more reliable than 3.5″ diskettes (floppy disks)?
- Why does my hard drive make a lot of noise?
- Why does my hard drive spit and shutter so much even after I defragmented it?
- What would I want to partition my hard drive?
- What does it mean to reformat a hard drive?
- What is the difference between AGP and PCI graphics cards?
- Why won’t my scanner work?
- Why do videos run slow on my computer?
- How do find out how much RAM my computer has and how much it is using?
- How can I upgrade my computer to USB 2.0?
- Can I use a generic v.92 modem from Wal-Mart in my Dell computer?
- What is the difference between the AMD Athlon and Intel Pentium processors?
- What does scalable mean, in reference to a computer?
- Can I still start my computer if my hard drive fails?
- Why won’t my computer boot up after I installed new memory?
- What does it mean to “power cycle” a device?
- How can I tell if my CD/DVD drive burns CDs or DVDs?
- How can I make sure everything is deleted off my hard drive before I sell my computer?
- How do I know if the blank CDs & DVDs I buy are rewritable?
- Is it possible to recover files off a disk that has been reformatted or initialized?
- What do I need in order to burn my own CDs?
- What is the difference between an AGP and a PCI graphics card?
- How can I tell if a memory module is ECC parity RAM or non-ECC non-parity RAM?
- Can I replace non-ECC memory with ECC memory?
- How do I open files from a USB flash drive?
- Why won’t my new IDE hard drive work after I just installed it?
- What is the difference between a double density (DD) diskette, and a high density (HD) diskette?
- Why is monitor’s screen blank when I start up my computer?
- I changed my monitor’s color settings and can’t see anything now. What should I do?
- How can I connect my computer to a TV or television screen?
- What are some examples of computer peripheral devices?
- Why is the picture on my monitor fuzzy?
- How many monitors can I hook up to my desktop computer?
- Why does my monitor display a “Sync. Out of Range” error message?
- Can I fax a document without a fax machine?
- What does it mean when a computer is “low on resources?”
- What is the difference between physical memory and available memory?
- What is the difference between memory and hard disk space?
- What is the difference between burning and ripping?
- Will a USB 1.0 or 1.1 device work with my computer that only has USB 2.0 ports?
- What are the Alt (Option) and Control (Ctrl) keys for?
- What is the difference between “recover” and “restore?”
- Can I use my internal hard drive as an external hard drive?
- Will adding more RAM give my computer more free space?
- Can I transfer a program like Print Shop that is on many CDs to a single DVD?
- What is the difference between a USB hard drive and a USB flash drive?
- How can I free up space on my hard disk?
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Comment from Surez
Time April 1, 2008 at 5:38 am
very good Questions…but wer can i find answers for all these Questions??