Practical 2

In this practical we took the hardware components out of a computer tower and then put them back in again. I will describe what we did in the order of whichever parts we took out first.

• Firstly we slid open the casing of the tower and looked at the components.
• The we took of the back panel plate
• Next we took out the floppy drive
• Then we took out the hard-drive
• Then we took out the DVD drive
• Next we took out the RAM which were two slots of 256MB
• Next we took out the clips (holding the fan in place) and then took out the fan
• Lastly we took out the CPU chip
• We then put all of these parts back into the correct places and turned on the computer to see if we had successfully rebuilt it and f it worked.
• It was built back up agan correctly and the computer worked!

Assignment URL

http://sites.google.com/site/maintainingcomputer/home