A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC Fifth Edition Chapter 1 Introducing Hardware

2 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition You Will Learn… That a computer requires both hardware and software to work About the many different hardware components inside and connected to a computer

3 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Hardware Needs Software to Work Hardware  Physical components of a computer  Visible part of a system Software  Set of instructions that directs hardware to accomplish a task  The intelligence

4 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Functions of a Computer

5 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition PC Hardware Components Outside computer case: input/output devices Inside the case: processing and storage  CPU – most important component Requirements of a hardware device  Method for CPU to communicate with it  Software to instruct and control it  Electricity to power it

6 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Hardware Used for Input and Output Connects to computer case by ports (eg, serial, parallel, USB, game, keyboard, mouse) Popular input devices:  Keyboard  Mouse Popular output devices:  Monitor  Printer

7 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Ports

8 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Input Devices

9 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Output Devices

10 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Hardware Inside the Case

11 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Motherboard Components Processing  CPU (most important)  Chip set Temporary storage  RAM  Cache memory Electrical system  Power supply connections Communication with other devices  Traces  Expansion slots  System clock Programming/setup data  Flash ROM  CMOS setup chip

12 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition The Motherboard

13 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition The Motherboard ( continued )

14 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition The CPU

15 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition The Chip Set Controls most activities on the motherboard Includes several device controllers  USB controller  Memory controller  IDE controller

16 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition The Chip Set ( continued )

17 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Storage Devices Temporary (primary storage, or memory)  Temporarily holds data and instructions while processing them  Faster to access than permanent storage Permanent (secondary storage)  Data and instructions must be copied into primary storage (RAM) for processing

18 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Primary and Secondary Storage

19 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Primary Storage Devices Memory, or RAM, located on motherboard and other circuit boards  Volatile versus nonvolatile (or ROM) memory Types of boards that hold memory chips  SIMMs  DIMMs  RIMMs

20 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Secondary Storage Devices Hard drives CD-ROM drives DVD drives Zip drives Floppy drives

21 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Hard Drive

22 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition IDE Connectors on a Motherboard

23 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition IDE Connectors on a Motherboard ( continued )

24 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Hard Drive’s Power Supply

25 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Floppy Drive Connection

26 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Floppy Drive Connection ( continued )

27 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition CD-ROM Drive Connection

28 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Motherboard Components Used for Communication Among Devices The data bus  System of pathways used for communication and the protocol and methods used for transmission

29 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition The Bus and Bus Lines

30 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Expansion Slots

31 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Types of Expansion Slots

32 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Interface (Expansion) Cards

33 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition The Electrical System Power supply  Most important component of computer’s electrical system  Converts/reduces electricity to voltage the computer can handle  Runs a fan directly from electrical output voltage to cool inside of computer case

34 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition The Electrical System ( continued )

35 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition The Electrical System ( continued )

36 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Summary Introduction to hardware components of a computer system Initial insight into how hardware works