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Cold swap

Updated: 12/20/2017 by Computer Hope

A cold swap is a term used to describe the process of installing, connecting, or disconnecting a hardware device that requires the computer be turned off during the installation.

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  • How to install computer hardware.
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Hardware terms, Hot-swapping, Warm swap

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