| A | B |
|---|
| bank | Total number of SIMMS or DIMMS that can be accessed simultaneously by the chipset. |
| Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) | error screen that appears when Windows encounters an unrecoverable error |
| buffered/registered DRAM | usually seen in motherboards supporting more than four sticks of RAM and is required to address interference issues caused by the additional sticks |
| continuity RIMM (CRIMM) | passive device added to populate unused banks in a system that uses Rambus RIMMs |
| disk thrashing | hard drive that is constantly being accessed due to lack of available system memory. It happens when system memory runs low so it utilizes hard disk space as virtual memory causing an unusual amount of hard drive access |
| double data rate SDRAM (DDR SDRAM) | type DRAM that makes two processses for every clock cycle |
| double-sided RAM | RAM stick with RAM chips soldered to both sides of the stick and may only be used with motherboardds designed to accept doble-sided RAM (very common) |
| dual-channel architecture | using two sticks of RAM (RDRAM or DDR) to increase throughput |
| dual inline memory module (DIMM) | 32 or 64 bit type of DRAM packaging similar to SIMMs except that each side of each tab inserted into the system performs a separate function |
| dynamic random access memory (DRAM) | memory used to store data in most personal computers. DRAM stores each bit in a cell composed f a transistor and a capacitor that can only hold a charge for a few milliseconds so must be constantly refreshed to retain data |
| error correction code RAM (ECC RAM) | 11 |
| general protection fault (GPF) | 12 |
| latency | 13 |
| module | 14 |
| non-maskable interrupt (NMI) | 15 |
| page fault | 16 |
| page file | 17 |
| parity RAM | 18 |
| Rambus DRAM (RDRAM) | 19 |
| RIMM | 20 |
| serial presence detect (SPD) | 21 |
| single inline memory module (SIMM) | 22 |
| single-sided RAM | 23 |
| small-outline DIMM (SO-DIMM) | 24 |
| stick | 25 |
| swap file | 26 |
| synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) | 27 |
