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Troubleshooting

·         You are not the first one to face the trouble. ·         Some simple solutions. – Check connections. – Ensure that cards…

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Cabinet

·         Form Factor ·         AT Cases ·         ATX Cases AT Cases ·         Older Motherboards (pre-Pentium) ·         Advantages – Well Established standard make. – Easy and…

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BIOS

·         What is it? – Basic Input Output System ·         Why is it necessary? – boot up ·         Important Functions – Check CMOS…

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Ports

·         Serial – Serial port “serializes” data. – Mouse, Modems etc use Serial port. ·         Parallel – Bits transmitted in parallel. –…

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Sound Card

·         Converts digital data (bits) into analog sound wave and vice-versa. ·         Has Digital Signal Processor, RAM, ADC and DAC. ·         Has jacks…

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Video Card

·         What’s a Graphics Card? – A modern graphics card is a circuit board with memory and a dedicated processor. –…

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Hard Disk

·         What is Hard Disk? – Stores data in magnetic disk like medium ·         Non-volatile mass storage device. ·         Has very high access…

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Motherboard

The main circuit board which connects all the device on a microcomputer; Also called main board or system board ·         Chipset…

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RAM

·         What is RAM? – Random Access Memory. – RAM is volatile. ·         Broadly classified as – Static RAM. – Dynamic RAM.…

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Processor

·         Processor is the brain of your computer. ·         Some key concepts –Clock : In a computer, clock speed refers to the…

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