VIII. Put the verbs in brackets in the required tense forms and translate the sentences into Ukrainian.

1. The Intel Advanced/ML motherboard, launched in 1996, (to be designed) to mark the beginning of a new era in motherboard design. 2. Its size and layout (to be) completely different to the BAT format, following a new scheme known as ATX. 3. The ATX design (to get) round the problem by moving the CPU socket and the voltage regulator to the right-hand side of the expansion bus. 4. Room (to be made) for the CPU by making the card slightly wider, and shrinking or integrating components such as the Flash BIOS, I/O logic and keyboard controller. 5. The ATX (to use) a new specification of power supply that can be powered on or off by a signal from the motherboard. 6. This (to allow) notebook-style power management and software-controlled shutdown and power-up. 7. Accessibility of the processor and memory modules (to be improved) dramatically, and relocation of the peripheral connectors (allow) shorter cables to be used. 8. This also (to help) reduce electromagnetic interference. 9. The ATX power supply (to have) a side vent that blows air from the outside directly across the processor and memory modules, allowing passive heat sinks to be used in most cases, thereby reducing system noise.

IX. Put the words into the right order.

Intel's NLX design, low-profile, an improvement, for, is, systems, on, design, the, LPX.

The NLX, so, desktop, format, suited, is, cases, well, smaller, for, low-profile.

All expansion slots, are located, cables, and, peripheral, on, an, power, connectors, riser, card, edge-mounted.

The, of, an, design, for, card, allows, AGP, use.

X. Put questions to which the following sentences would be the answers.

1. The FlexATX is a natural evolution of the Intel's microATX form factor which was first unveiled in late 1999. 2. The FlexATX addendum to the microATX specification addresses the requirements of only the motherboard and not the overall system solution. 3. The principal difference between FlexATX and microATX is that the new form factor reduces the size of the motherboard - to 9in x 7.5in. 4. In the spring of 2000 VIA Technologies announced an even smaller motherboard than the FlexATX. 4. The key innovation that allows the ITX to achieve such a compact form is the specially designed slimline power unit with built in fan. 5. Unsurprisingly Intel's FlexATX form factor uses its CNR riser architecture, while the ITX uses the rival ACR architecture.

XI. Read and translate the text. Annotate it in Ukrainian.

Text C

BIOS

All motherboards include a small block of Read Only Memory (ROM) which is separate from the main system memory used for loading and running software. The ROM contains the PC's Basic Input/Output System (BIOS). This offers two advantages: the code and data in the ROM BIOS need not be reloaded each time the computer is started, and they cannot be corrupted by wayward applications that write into the wrong part of memory. A Flash upgradeable BIOS may be updated via a floppy diskette to ensure future compatibility with new chips, add-on cards etc.

The BIOS comprises several separate routines, serving different functions. The first part runs as soon as the machine is powered on. It inspects the computer to determine what hardware is fitted and then conducts some simple tests to check that everything is functioning normally - a process called the power-on self test (POST). If any of the peripherals are plug and play devices, it's at this point that the BIOSes assign their resources. There's also an option to enter the Setup program. This allows the user to tell the PC what hardware is fitted, but thanks to automatic self-configuring BIOSes this isn't used so much now.

If all the tests are passed, the ROM then tries to determine which drive to boot the machine from. Most PCs ship with the BIOS set to check for the presence of an operating system in the floppy disk drive first (A:), then on the primary hard disk drive. Any modern BIOS will allow the floppy drive to be moved down the list so as to reduce normal boot time by a few seconds. To accommodate PCs that ship with a bootable CD-ROM, some BIOSes allow the CD-ROM drive to be assigned as the boot drive. Some also allow booting from a hard disk drive other than the primary IDE drive. In this case it would be possible to have different operating systems - or separate instances of the same OS - on different drives. Many BIOSes allow the start-up process to be interrupted to specify the first boot device without actually having to enter the BIOS setup utility itself. If no bootable drive is detected, a message is displayed indicating that the system requires a system disk. Once the machine has booted, the BIOS serves a different purpose by presenting DOS with a standardised API for the PC hardware. In the days before Windows, this was a vital function, but 32-bit "protect mode" software doesn't use the BIOS, so again it's of less benefit today.

Windows 98 (and later) provides multiple display support. Since most PCs have only a single AGP slot, users wishing to take advantage of this will generally install a second graphics card in a PCI slot. In such cases, most BIOSes will treat the PCI card as the main graphics card by default. Some, however, allow either the AGP card or the PCI card to be designated as the primary graphics card.

Whilst the PCI interface has helped - by allowing IRQs to be shared more easily - the limited number of IRQ settings available to a PC remains a problem for many users. For this reason, most BIOSes allow ports that are not in use to be disabled. With the increasing popularity of cable and ADSL Internet connections and the ever-increasing availability of peripherals that use the USB interface, it will often be possible to get by without needing either a serial or a parallel port.