Unit 8: Troubleshoot and Repair

Maintenance(6 marks)
• 8.1 Mother Board (Form factor, Parts, Chipset and5
• controller, Buses and BIOS)
• 8.2 Power Supply (SMPS Concept, UPS)
• 8.3 Input Devices (Keyboard, Mouse, Light Pen,
• Scanner, Optical Character Recognition
• (OCR))
• 8.4 Installing, Repairing and Upgrading Operating
• System
• 8.5 PC Maintenance and Troubleshooting
• Strategies
• 8.6 Maintaining and Optimizing Operating System
• Performance
• 8.7 Troubleshooting Operating System and
• Applications Startup Problems
• 8.8 Troubleshooting Hardware Problems
• 8.9 Connecting to and Setting up a Network using
• An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) is a
device that allows a computer to keep running
for at least a short time when the primary
power source is lost. It also provides
protection from power surges.
• A UPS contains a battery that "kicks in" when
the device senses a loss of power from the
primary source. If you are using the computer
when the UPS notifies you of the power loss,
you have time to save any data you are
• OCR (optical character recognition) is the
recognition of printed or
written text characters by a computer. This
involves photoscanning of the text character-
by-character, analysis of the scanned-in image,
and then translation of the character image
into character codes, such as ASCII, commonly
used in data processing.
• In OCR processing, the scanned-in image
or bitmap is analyzed for light and dark areas