what is a jumper, computer terms?

Answer 1

It's like a switch.

Answer 2

This is a small metal connector that acts as an on/off switch and is used to alter hardware configurations. A jumper is typically made of two wires and a small piece of metal. When the wires are connected by the metal piece, the jumper is turned on, completing the circuit. When the wires are disconnected, the jumper is turned off. Mulitple jumpers, referred to collectively as a jumper block, are often used to tell the computer how a certain device, such as a hard drive or a modem, is configured. They can be found on motherboards, sound cards, graphics cards, I/O cards, CD-ROM interface boards, modems, and hard drive controller boards, and others.

Manually setting jumpers can be a confusing process, so most hardware usually comes with the necessary jumpers preset. If they are not preset, there should be documentation with a clear diagram of the jumper settings included with the hardware. Fortunately, a lot of plug-and-play equipment available today does not require any jumpers. These devices can be configured through a user-friendly interface on your computer.

Answer 3

A jumper is a small connect that connects two pins together to complete a circuit. For example, depending on which pins the jumper is on on a hard drive, determines how the computer sees the hard drive. Is it the master or a second drive? The pin can determine this by which set of pins it is on. There are also jumpers on the motherboard which you can take off if you forget the bios password. So basically, just a connection that the computer uses to determine function of a specific unit.

Answer 4

It is a little plastic coated piece of metal that connects 2 pins. If you have your computer opened, it looks like a small colored rectangle. You will find jumpers on the back of hard drives or CD drives -- letting the computer know certain settings based on which pins are now connected.

Answer 5

A jumper is, in electrical terms, a simple device to join two connections, in the case of a computer it is a little plastic thingy
that is pushed over two pins to connect them together..

Answer 6

It let's you pick a configuration by putting the jumper on the setting you want. For example, on a hard drive, there are jumper settings for master, slave, cable select. By placing the jumper on the correct set of 'prongs', it determines the setting for that hard drive. The motherboard also uses jumpers.

Answer 7

A jumper ,basically shorts out two pins, so as to set a hard drive to master or slave or on a mother board to say let a signal pass between 2 points.

Answer 8

a jumper is a small plug that fits in the back of hard drives and optical drives and they are used to configure them to master and slave settings
for example a main cd-rom would be master and a 2nd drive would be slave,jumper settings can be found on the top of the drives,as different drives have various settings
there are also a few old motherboards that use jumper settings to adjust fsb speeds(front service bus)

Answer 9

a jumper is a sleeve that fits over 1 or 2 connector pins on a piece of it eqpt, the sleeve normally looks like the letter u where the points of the u are hollow metal and they are pushed onto the connector pins to either connect or break a circuit

Answer 10

It is a piece of metal (most times surrounded by plastic) used to short two contacts in a circuit board.

Answer 11

Its a small piece of plastic and metal used to open or close the circuit on a piece of electronic equipment, it is used to manually enable or disable certain functions.