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This document provides an overview of the key topics covered in a course on personal computer hardware: 1) The main hardware components of PCs including motherboards, ports, slots, connectors, power supplies, storage devices, and optical drives. 2) Storage technologies such as floppy disks, hard disks, CDs, DVDs, and RAID systems. 3) PC memory management including RAM, cache memory, and addressing schemes. 4) Bus structures that connect components like ISA, PCI, USB, and hard disk interfaces.

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This document provides an overview of the key topics covered in a course on personal computer hardware: 1) The main hardware components of PCs including motherboards, ports, slots, connectors, power supplies, storage devices, and optical drives. 2) Storage technologies such as floppy disks, hard disks, CDs, DVDs, and RAID systems. 3) PC memory management including RAM, cache memory, and addressing schemes. 4) Bus structures that connect components like ISA, PCI, USB, and hard disk interfaces.

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T 606 PERSONAL COMPUTER HARDWARE

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Module 1 Introduction to PC Hardware components study of motherboards Different types of ports, slots and connectors-Add-on cards-Power supply SMPS- function & operations. Module 2 Storage Devices Floppy Floppy Disk Controller - Disk Physical specification & operations Disk magnetic properties Cylinders Clusters Hard disks Hard disk drive operation Magnetic data storage - Sectors Disk formatting partitioning - Hard disk features Hard disk data transfer modes Programmed I/O Direct memory access Ultra DMA Data addressing Standard CHS addressing Extended CHS addressing Logical Block Addressing. Module 3 Optical Storage CD ROM, CD Technology, Sector layout, CD-R, CD-RW, CDROM, drive specificationsdata transfer rate Access time Constant linear velocity constant angular velocity - Buffers Interface Magneto optical drives WORM devices DVD- RAID Holographic storage. Module 4 Memory Management in PC Parity ECC Static & Dynamic RAM Memory Addressing Segmented addressing - 64 KB Limits 640 KB barrier Logical, segmented, virtual, linear and physical memory addresses Extended and Expanded memory Cache memory Video memory HMA - Flat memory model Advanced memory technologies. Module 5 Bus Structures ISA, PCI, PCMCIA, AGP, USB, Hard Disk Interfaces IDE, EIDE, ATA Communication ports Serial Parallel port Keyboard / Mouse Interface connectors. References 1. PC Hardware Complete Reference - Craig Zacker & John Rourke, Tata McGrawHill 2. Inside the PC (8th Edition) - Peter Norton, Techmedia Publications 3. The Indispensable PC Hardware Book - Messmer, Pearson Education 4. Troubleshooting and Repairing Your PC - Corey Candler, Wiley 5. Upgrading and repairing PCs (4th edition) - Scott Mueller, Pearson Education 6. IBM PC Assembly Language Programming - Abel, PHI 7. PC Upgrading Maintenance & Trouble shooting guide - Dr. S. K. Chauhan, Kataria

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