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Assembly, Installation & Maintenance of Computers
The objective of the paper is to make you aware of computer Hardware parts and their working.
Introduction to Computers: Inside PC, On Board Memory, Motherboard, CPU & Basic Terms
Study of XT/AT-286, 386, 486, Pentium Motherboards, Familiarization with Display Cards & I/O Cards, Memory Basics, Extended & Expanded Memory, PC Expansion Bus.
CMOS Setup, Preventive Maintenance, Installation New Circuit Boards, Troubleshooting and Servicing, Computers Maintenance.
PC Assembling/Disassembling & Its Trouble Shooting: Procedure for assembling/disassembling, Safety precautions during trouble-shooting and repair, operating system and boot process, Start-up problems, Run problems.
Introduction to trouble-shooting, Computer Faults, Nature and Types of Faults, Specific trouble-shooting, Symptoms Observation, Symptoms Analysis, Fault Diagnostic programs and tools, Fault Rectification or elimination process, Contributors to system failure.
Disc Drives: Types of Disc Drive, Assembly of Disc Drive, Trouble shooting Disc Drive.
Motherboard: Form Factors, Motherboard components, Sockets and Slots, Chipsets, BIOS Trouble shooting Motherboards, Soldering and Unsoldering. Processor types, Types of I/O busses.
Display Screens: Construction of CRT monitors, Video Adapter card, Display problems,
Audio Adapter, Trouble shooting sound cards.
LAN Cards: Ethernet
Printer technologies: How printers work, Troubleshooting printer. Types of keyboard, keyboard problems, Mouse ports, Mouse trouble shooting, and other I/O problems.
Information integrity definition, Ensuring integrity & Computer Security: Definition, concepts and components of security, Security status on PC, Security threats, software security, network security, password security, Privacy.
Computer Viruses: Introduction, Evolution of virus, Intruders, Threats, The processes of infection, classifications of virus-Boot infectors, system infectors, General .COM and .EXE infectors, Introduction to Firewalls, Introduction, Classification, Architecture; Study, Analysis, Comparison
and Installation of Popular (at least five) Anti-virus Systems for standalone PCs and for computer Networks. CASE STUDY: Norton’s Antivirus, Trojan Horse, AVG, Quick Heal, COMODO, McAfee etc.
1. Balagurusamy, “Programming in ANSI C”, TMH Publications.
2. Mueller, “Repairing and Upgrading of IBM PC”, Que Publications.
3. B. Govindarajalu, “IBM PC and Clones”, TMH Publication
4. Stephen J. Bigelow, “Troubleshooting, Maintaining & Repairing PC”, TMH Publications.
5. Mark Minasi, “The Complete PC Upgrade and Maintenance Guide”, BPB Publications.
6. D. Balasubramaniam, ”Computer Installation and Servicing”, TMH Publications.
