|drive failure‚ video card problems‚ and memory failure. Just to add‚ the issues are listed in order of easiest to hardest to fix. | |To fix the CMOS batter problem: turn on the PC and press the desired (i.e. F2) key to enter the BIOS system. Afterwards‚ reviwe the| |BIOS settings‚ like the time and date. If they have been set in the past‚ it’s most likely
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The Major Motherboard Components or Parts and their Functions See all 10 photos A motherboard showing some major components THE MOTHERBOARD The main printed circuit board in a computer is known as the Motherboard. It is also known as System Board‚ Main Board or Printed Wired Board (PWB). It also sometimes abbreviated or shortened to mobo. Attached to it‚ we have numerous motherboard components that are crucial in the functioning of the computer. The motherboard acts as the connection point
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Windows NT is a unique and powerful operating system. It has been an entirely different operating system than Microsoft’s initial Windows desktops operating systems. It was simply better and more secure ("Survey of operating Systems" pg125.) Windows NT offers you a high degree of performance and a wealth of capabilities and features. ("Windows NT 101"‚ 1998.) NT supports two file systems: NtFS4 and FAT16. It can use up to 4 Gigabytes of RAM and also uses virtual memory. Windows NT doesn’t work well
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Starting a Computer The process of starting or restarting a computer is called booting. When turning on a computer that has been powered off completely‚ you are performing a cold boot. A warm boot‚ by contrast‚ is the process of using the operating system to restart a computer. A warm boot properly closes any running processes and programs; however‚ it does not save any unsaved work. Thus‚ always remember to save your work before rebooting (restarting) a computer. Warm Boot versus Cold Boot With
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MEMORY PCs have quite a bit of memory of different kinds. Let’s take a look at some general concepts that will help us understand what we are talking about when we say “memory.” Storage One of the things we expect our PCs to do is to store information. This information can be our data files‚ it can be our application software‚ or our operating system. If this information were not stored in the PC itself‚ we would have to re-install it every time we turned on the PC‚ and then it would have to
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Question 1 4 out of 4 points Of the following all but one represent the three main categories of a computer system. Which one is not a main component category? Answer Selected Answer: Display system Correct Answer: Display system Question 2 4 out of 4 points CompTIA has created a six-step process for troubleshooting. The first step in the process is to identify the problem. Which of the followings steps resembles the next step in the methodology? Answer Selected Answer:
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components together such as the CPU and memory. BIOS: Basic input/output system has certain instructions in which this will help to start up a pc. Whenever you turn on your computer‚ the first thing you see is the BIOS software doing its thing. On many machines‚ the BIOS displays text describing things like the amount of memory installed in your computer‚ the type of hard disk and so on. It turns out that‚ during this boot sequence‚ the BIOS is doing a remarkable amount of work to get your computer
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leverage to also control other types of PC software. 9. Compaq and phoenix software legally duplicated it IBM PC BIOS software by an ingenious form of reserve engineering. They had two groups of engineers‚ the second group have never seen IBM BIOS code. The first group wrote a detailed description of what it did. The second group read the description given by the first group and wrote a new BIOS from scratch that did everything the first group had described. 10. Intel controls the PC hardware standard
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3.1 There are different methods for opening cases. To learn how to open a particular computer case‚ consult the user manual or manufacturer’s website. Most computer cases are opened in one of the following ways: The computer case cover can be removed as one piece. The top and side panels of the case can be removed. The top of the case may need to be removed before the side panels can be removed. 3.2 These are the power supply installation steps: Insert the power supply into the case. Align
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2010 IT/280 Computer Hardware Fundamentals Computer Maintenance and Training Manual Contents Safety 2 Environmental concerns 2 What are the Benefits? 2 Resources 2 Power Protection 2 Heat 3 Dust 3 Static 3 Cleaning 4 The Tower 4 Monitor 5 Keyboard 5 Mouse 5 Internal hardware installation and maintenance 5 Motherboard Components 5 Power Supply 7 CPU installation 8 Memory Installation 9 Mass Storage Devices 9 Hard drives 10 Graphics card 10 Input/output
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