PC Hardware Training - 4 CDs
4 CDs covering Repair, Upgrading, Building & Upgrading PCs.
Become familiar with your computer’s components and be ready to troubleshoot, upgrade and repair your system with the hardware to fit today’s demands.
This 4 CD training course offers hardware training on the latest and greatest in hardware technology.
As the industry is constantly advancing in complexity and speed, you can keep up with the leading edge by using these high-quality training CD courses.
Repair:
- Approx. 2 hours of training
- How a computer works
- Flow of information
- What a processor is
- What memory is
- Basic hardware problems
- Startup sequence/booting
- Bootstrap
- Processor types
- Processor history
- Permanent storage
- Disk drives
- CDRs
- How to keep a computer running fast
- Using System Tools
- Defragmenting
- Disk Cleanup
- Freezes
- Video problems
- Control + Alt + Delete
- Hard drive crashes
- Hard drive components
- How HDD works
- Tools you’ll need for repairing
- Electrostatic discharge
- Safety First!
- Driver issues
- Signs of driver problems
- What DLL’s do
- The registry
- Backing up your registry
Upgrading:
- Approx. 2 hours of training
- What BIOS does
- PnP BIOS
- Components BIOS effects
- Accessing BIOS CMOS
- Basic BIOS settings
- Loading defaults
- Checking HDD configuration
- Common hardware problems
- Replacement considerations
- About drivers
- Different types of cards
- PCI cards
- ISA bus
- PCMCIA
- Installing a sound card
- Installing a floppy drive
- How memory works
- Types of memory
- Warning signs that memory needs replaced
- Memory modules
- SIMMs & DIMMs
- Replacing memory
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Building:
- Approx. 2 hours of training
- Motherboard considerations
- Memory considerations
- Expansion considerations
- IDE controllers
- USB support and fire wire
- Chipset considerations
- Processor considerations
- Display adapters
- ADP ports & PCI busses
- Hardware acceleration
- Case considerations
- Sound card considerations
- Outputs for sound cards
- Considerations for connecting to the Internet: modems, cable modems and DSL
- Drive types to consider: floppy, CD-ROM, CD-R, DVD-ROM & Zip drives
- About hard drives
- Installing the CPU
- Installing a floppy drive
- Installing a hard drive
- Installing a CD-ROM drive
- Making sure the polarity is set right
- Initial startup procedures
- Installing Windows Me
Troubleshooting:
- Approx. 2 hours of training
- Software tools and support resources
- Using Windows Help for hardware issues
- System Tools
- System Information
- Using the Device Manager
- Testing common peripherals.
- Floppy drives and cooling fans are most prone to failure
- Replacing a cooling fan
- POST codes
- Beep codes
- What to do if your computer won’t start
- How to discern between device driver, BIOS and hardware problems
- Windows error messages
- Reinstalling Windows
- Making a startup disk
- Backing up data files onto CDR
- Reformatting a hard drive
- Restarting & reinstalling the OS after reformatting
- Preventative measures
Order on line or call (800) 321-2155 and ask for course 02-298 today!
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