Sara Baca Mr. Salazar Computer Science Period 4 12 March 2002 What’s in the Box? CPU- Boards: Systems Board or Mother Board Expansion Boards Memory with RAM, modem, video card, sound card, network cards, slots... ISA PCI Expansion board hooks up to the system board through slots. Primary difference in types of slots is speed. CPU (processing chip) lives on the system board Intel-Pentiums, Pentium Pro, Pentium III, Pentium IV, celerons SPEED IS THE DIFFERENCE Registered by a gigahertz Chips-Pentium III, 1.4 gigahertz Generation and Speed Fans- Cool the chip SX DX Difference is the ability to do math SX did not have an integrated math compressor The DX did Dual Processing Machine: More than 1 chip on a system board Cell Technology- The ability for the chips to “grow” together IO (input/output)-PS2 is the mouse, keyboard RS232-cereal LPT-printers USB-PDA’s, Digital Camera’s, etc. . . SCSI (Scuzzy) Types of System Boards: PCB; Printed Circuit Board, 2mm thick, layers of copper, 1 damaged copper trace can cause problems XT; PC/XT; very few integrated devices, keyboard was only 10 port AT; Few integrated ports, supported 286 and 386 Baby/AT; Had ISA slots and limits to use full size ISA cards in 2 slots. . .4 SIMM sockets SIMM is where RAM goes ATX; Both the mouse and keyboard used PS2 style ports LPX; Had riser boars, slots were parallel to the system board instead of perpendicular Western Digital NLX; Made by joint ventures of major PC wonders, open source designed, has agp (accelerated graphics port), supported DIMMS (Dual Inline Memory Modules). System Board Replacement Obtain and Read a copy of system board manual (RTFM) Ground yourself Hold system board by the edges Put the board on an anti-static surface Check replacement board for damage Tighten all components on new board Set jumpers to match the old board Remove connections to the systems boards Remove all IO external connectors Remove all add on cards from board Remove CPU and memory and install on new board Put everything together Connect IO ports Turn Computer on and check BIOS Boot up and make sure everything works
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