[SYMBOL] [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [X] [Y] [Z] P-CAV (Partial CAV)  P8 and P9 connectors, caution with  packet writing  2nd      support for CD writers  packet-writing software     caution with      vs. premastering software  2nd  paddles  Panasonic     DVD drives      SuperDisk drives  [See SuperDisk drives] parallel ports      connectors and cables for      hardware connected to, configuring      mapping to LPTs      recommendations for      Zip drive and  parallel tape drives  Parallel Technologies  2nd  parity  parity memory  2nd  Partial CAV (P-CAV)  Partition Magic (PowerQuest)  partitioning hard drives  passive SCSI terminators  PC 2001  PC 99  PC Power & Cooling  2nd  PC100/PC133 SDRAM  PCI  2nd      buses      expansion slots/cards  2nd      handling interrupts      video adapters         choosing/recommended          interfaces for  PCI Bus IRQ Steering  PCM (Pulse Coded Modulation)  PCs     booting and, caution with memory      building  2nd          problems with      bus support, components for      cables and      choosing      components, OEM versions      cost of      design guides for      mice and trackballs for      sound adapters/cards and      tools for repairing      upgrading  [See upgrading PCs]     uses for old models      warranties for      working on  [See working on PCs] PD (Phase Change Dual Optical) drives  Peak Power  Peerless drive (Iomega)  pels (pixels)  Pentium processors  2nd  3rd      recommendations for      secondary (L2) cache      upgrading  2nd  Peripheral Component Interconnect  [See PCI] Peripheral Connectors  PFC (power-factor-corrected)  Phase Change Dual Optical (PD) drives  Phoenix (BIOS manufacturer)  2nd  phosphor dots  physical formats of writable CDs  physical formatting  physical modeling synthesis  PIC (Programmable Interrupt Controller)  picture elements (pixels)  pin 1  2nd      floppy disk drives, installing      motherboards, installing      SCSI hard disks, installing      socketed processors, installing  pin 11 (remote sensing)  pinouts     cables for floppy disk drives      caution with      LPX      serial cables and  pins     +5Vsb/-5VDC      power supplies and  PIO (Programmed I/O)      compatibility and  pipeline burst, cache type  pipelining  pixels  2nd  planar boards  [See motherboards] Plastic Pin Grid Array (PPGA)  platters, in hard disk drives  Plextor     CD-RW drives      PlexWriter drive      SCSI CD-ROM drives  PlexWriter drive (Plextor)  Plug-n-Play (PnP)  2nd      configuring displays  plugs (male connectors)  PM (Primary Master), installing ATAPI drives  PnP  [See Plug-n-Play] PocketZip drive  Point of View hat (POV hat)  Pointers page  pointing devices  port extenders  ports      purchasing motherboards and  power connectors  power cord  2nd  power-factor-corrected (PFC)  power management  power supplies  2nd      caution with      choosing/recommended  2nd      cleaning      compared      connectors for      floppy disk drives and      installing  2nd  3rd      motherboards and, installing      testing      troubleshooting      upgrading      voltages and, caution for  power-supplies-to-device connectors  PowerQuest     DriveCopy      Partition Magic  PPGA (Plastic Pin Grid Array)  prefetches  premastering software      vs. packet-writing software  2nd  primary cache      memory  Primary Master (PM), installing ATAPI drives  Pro-FD drives (Samsung)  processor bus  processor bus speed  processor speed      motherboards and, support for  processors  2nd      AMD  [See AMD processors]     architecture of      Celeron  [See Celeron processors]     chipset support and  2nd      choosing/recommended  2nd      components of      generations of      installing  2nd          slotted processors          socketed processors      Intel      multiple support for      overclocking      Pentium  [See Pentium processors]     support types      transfers, managing      upgrading  profiles, stored in game controllers  Programmable Interrupt Controller (PIC)  Programmed I/O (PIO)      compatibility and  programs  [See software] Promise Technology  Properties dialog     <device-name>      hard disk drives and      keyboards and      mice/trackballs and  Properties sheet  proportional responses  proprietary motherboards  protocol-based DRAM  PS/2 keyboard interfaces  2nd  PS/2 mouse interface  pthalocyanine dye, in CD-R blanks  Pulse Coded Modulation (PCM)  PW_OK (pin 8)