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youll still get covered in dust. Also useful for the rare mucky jobs like applying thermal paste.
When taking a PC apart youll find the number of screws soon mounts up, so how do you remember what went where and avoid mixing them together?
Spare cables Always useful to have a spare set of cables with you, especially things like Cat 5e network cables, power leads (the kettle lead, officially an IEC C13 lead) and SATA cables. Others you may want to include are USB leads (micro, mini and regular A/B), display leads (VGA, DVI and HDMI), an RJ11-to-RJ11 and RJ11-to-BT phone leads for use on ADSL modems.
Network cable tester A spare network cable is a cheaper and easier solution, but should you encounter a situation where you cant replace the cable (its too long or routed in such a way it cannot be removed) then this could prove handy.
Three-claw parts retrieval tool Grabbing small parts such as jumpers and screws from motherboard
Toothpick or thin wire Probing the depth of screw holes Power supply tester
is a hardware diagnostic tool that is used to determine whether a computer's power supply is working correctly.
Flash memory Some common types of Flash memory cards are CompactFlash, Secure Digital (SD), and xD.