Day Five

Hardware ID, Groups, plus Video

 

We should have 5 Groups by now

 

Each group must have at lest three persons

 

Last time in your group work, you opened the cases and identified the:

CPU Socket and CPU

 

. . .

 

 

AGP slot and AGP video card

 

 

PCI slots and PCI adapter cards

 

PCI is used for most modems, sound cards, and Network cards.

 

ISA slots and ISA adapter cards

ISA is not used in most of the newer mother boards.

 

 

ROM BIOS chips

 

 

System Batteries

 

 

 

 

 

Memory Sockets and RAM modules

PC-133 SDRAM for Asus A7V133 M/Bs (AMD)
PC-2100 DDR for Asus A7A266 & A7V266 M/Bs (AMD)

 

 

 

Hard Disk Drive

Normally, 40 GB or better

 

 

Floppy Disk Drive

 

 

Power Supply

250 Watt or better for PIII and above.
300 Watt or better for AMD Athlon systems.

 

 

Motherboards

 

Asus A7V266

Was there anything that you noticed about these systems?  We should be receiving newer PCs this week for further group work.

 

 

 

Video

“Building a PC”

 

Finishing up work on first systems.