COMPUTER TECH MANUAL

HARDWARE

TYPES OF CASING
 Tower Case
 Desktop Case

PARTS OF A SYSTEM UNIT

 Motherboard
 Central Processing Unit (CPU)
 CPU Heat Sink
 CPU Fan
 Random Access Memory (RAM)
 Graphics Card / Video Card
 Hard disk Drive (HDD)
 Power Supply
 Fans
 DVD/CD Rom
 Cable Connectors

PARTS OF THE MOTHERBOARD

 Memory Slot
 Cpu Slot
 AGP / PCI Express Slot
 PCI Slots
 24 Pin Power Conector / ATX Slot
 4 Pin / ATX Slot
 IDE Slot
 Sata Slot
 CPU fan slot
 Fan Slots
 Front Panel Slot
1. Power
2. Reset
3. HDD Led
4. Power Led
5. USB
6. Audio

CABLE CONNECTORS
 Sata Cable
 Sata Power Connector
 IDE Cable
 24 Pin ATX Power Connector
 4 Pin ATX Power Connector

OUTPUT/ INPUT PORTS

 PS2 Ports
 AGP Slot
  USB Ports
 Audio Ports
 Lan Port
 HDMI Port

TWO TYPES OF PROCESSOR SLOT

 Pin Grid Array
 Lan Grid Array

FRONT PANNEL
POWER LED POWER SWITCH

HDD LED RESET

COMMON POWER PROBLEMS

 Power Cord
 Power Supply
 Front Panel Connections
 Jumper (Always at Right Position)
 AVR (Fuse)

COMMON DISPLAY PROBLEMS

 Memory Slot
 RAM
 CPU
 Graphics Card
 4 Pin ATX power connector

SOFTWARE
OPERATING SYSTEM INSTALLATION (OS)
1. Turn off computer
2. Connect USB Installer to USB port and should be in 2.0
3. Turn off computer and press DELETE on keyboard
4. Setup Boot Priority 1 to USB Installer and Boot Priority 2 to HDD
5. Save and Exit
6. Setup installation and create partitions
7. When the computer restarts, press DELETE on keyboard
8. Setup Boot Priority 1 to HDD and Boot Priority 2 to USB Installer
9. Save and Exit
10. Wait until installation is done
TO INSTALL AFTER FORMATING YOUR PC
 DRIVERS
 ADOBE READER
 ADOBE FLASH PLAYER
 USB DISK SECURITY
 JAVA
 WINRAR
 VLC PLAYER
 MICROSOFT OFFICE
 MICROSOFT .NET FRAMEWORK

FOR GOOD PERFORMANCE OF PC

REGEDIT
 Run RegEdit (WINDOW +R on keyboard and type RegEdit)
 HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
 Press letter P & I on keyboard (Piffile)
 Rename “IsShortcut” to “wasshortcut”
 Enter

 Press letter L & N on keyboard (lnkfile)

 Rename “IsShortcut” to “wasshortcut”
 Enter

 HKEY_CURRENT_USER

 Control Panel
 Desktop
 Menu show delay
 Change value to 50 or 0
MSCONFIG
 Run msconfig (WINDOW +R on keyboard and type msconfig)
 Startup
 Uncheck all but USB security
 Apply
 Restart
ACTION CENTER
 Go to control panel
 Action center
 Change action center setting
 Uncheck all
 Ok
 WINDOWS UPDATE
 Go to control panel
 Action center
 Windows update
 Change settings
 Turn off updates

NETWORKING (offline)
 Right click on the Network icon
 Open network and sharing center
 Change adapter setting
 Right click on the local area connections
 Properties
 Internet protocol version 4
 Properties
 Use the following IP address
 192.168.x.x
 The two x means it’s your own choice of number to input
 For the last x it depends on the number of pc you want to connect
 Tab
 Ok

 Run CMD
 Ping each PC
 Ping other PCs