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Hardware Maintenance and Protection

The document provides tips on hardware maintenance and protection, including cleaning computer surfaces and internal components, ensuring proper airflow to prevent heat buildup, avoiding solvents when cleaning monitors and keyboards, and following a 5-step troubleshooting methodology of gathering information, creating an action plan, implementing and testing solutions, identifying results, and documenting the process and solution.

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Hardware Maintenance and Protection

The document provides tips on hardware maintenance and protection, including cleaning computer surfaces and internal components, ensuring proper airflow to prevent heat buildup, avoiding solvents when cleaning monitors and keyboards, and following a 5-step troubleshooting methodology of gathering information, creating an action plan, implementing and testing solutions, identifying results, and documenting the process and solution.

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HARDWARE MAINTENANCE

AND PROTECTION
What is the most important way to
keep your computer healthy?
Tips in cleaning your computer
 Clean the outer surface with simple cloth and
water solution.
 Apply antistatic spray or antistatic solution to
prevent buildup of static charges on computer
parts
 Use handy small paintbrush.
 Oxidation buildups or corrosion occur on
electrical connectors to reduce the flow of
electricity
 Remove and reinstall socket-mounted devices.
 Use a lent free foam swabs and isopropyl
alcohol for cleaning internal components.
Protecting Hardware
Heat Buildup
 Excessive heat can be cause
premature aging and failure of the
electronic components of the
computer:
 Make sure that the area is
uncluttered so that the air will flow
freely around the computer.
 Make sure that the power supply’s
fan is operational
Protecting Monitors
 Avoid using aerosol sprays, solvent
and commercial cleaners, because
they can damage the screen and
cabinet. Use a simple cleaning
solution instead.
 Ensure that the monitor’s power
cords is disconnected from power
source before cleaning
 The screen should be dried with soft
cloth.
Protecting Input Devices
 Dust and clean the device
occasionally
 Use a lint free swab clean between
keys of the keyboard.
Troubleshooting Methodology
 A good PC Technician will follow some
sort of formalized troubleshooting
methods.
Step 1: Information
Gathering
 Identify what you want to accomplish
( Maintenance, Upgrade, Repair)
 Identify the component to work on.
 For repairs: Identify any symptoms,
determine if anything has changed,
and establish probable cause.
Step 2: Create an Action
Plan
 For maintenance and upgrades: tool
gathering, backup, parts
identification and action.
 For repairs: there is an step at the
begging: “Try a quick Fix”
Step 3:Implement and test the
Solution
 Try to a quick fix and then try the
most likely solution
Step 4: Identify the results
and effects of the solution
 Did the upgrade work?
 Did the maintenance work as
expected?
 Did the repair fix the problem?
Step 5: Documentation the solution
and process
Information
Gathering

Create Action
Plan

Implement and
Test the Plan
Documentation
of process and
solution
Identify the
Results and
Effects
Tools in Basic PC Maintenance
 PC Tools Kit-
 USB devices
 Bootable repair CDs:
 Software programs
 FRUs (Field Replaceable Units)
 ESD (Electro-Static Discharge)
Protection
Practicum (group work by
2s)
 Prepare 1 whole sheet of paper.
 Problem: You are a computer
technician, a client hired you to fixed
a set of computer. Make a
documentation report about the
problem that you encountered in
fixing the computer , follow the 5
methods in troubleshooting.
 Information Gathering
a.
b.
c.
 Action Planning
 Suggested Implementation and
testing plan
 Results and Effects
 Process, Solution and conclusion

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