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Required Hardware Components of A Computer: Presented By: Ms. Abraham

The document discusses the key hardware components of a computer motherboard. It describes the motherboard as a thin, flat sheet that holds the computer's internal components like printed circuits, chips, and slots. The motherboard contains the microprocessor and central processing unit, and allows the computer's components to communicate with each other. It also discusses the different types of memory that are part of the motherboard, including ROM, RAM, and cache memory. Input and output devices are also described briefly.

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Required Hardware Components of A Computer: Presented By: Ms. Abraham

The document discusses the key hardware components of a computer motherboard. It describes the motherboard as a thin, flat sheet that holds the computer's internal components like printed circuits, chips, and slots. The motherboard contains the microprocessor and central processing unit, and allows the computer's components to communicate with each other. It also discusses the different types of memory that are part of the motherboard, including ROM, RAM, and cache memory. Input and output devices are also described briefly.

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REQUIRED HARDWARE

COMPONENTS OF A
COMPUTER

PRESENTED BY: MS.


ABRAHAM
MOTHERBOARD- The motherboard is a thin, flat sheet
made of a firm, nonconducting material on which the internal
components—printed circuits, chips, slots, and so on—of the
computer are mounted. The motherboard is made of a dielectric or
nonconducting plastic material.

Typically, one side looks like a maze of soldered metal trails with
sharp projections (which are the attachments for the chips and
other components affixed to the motherboard). The motherboard
contains the microchips (including the central processing unit
[CPU]), and the wiring, and slots for adding components. The
specific design of the components on the motherboard—especially
the CPU and other microprocessors—composes the foundation of
the computer’s architecture.
HOW DOES A
MOTHERBOARD
WORK?
The motherboard is the backbone that ties the computer’s components

together at one spot and allows them to communicate to each other. Without it,

none of the computer pieces, such as the CPU, GPU, or hard drive, could

interact. Total motherboard functionality is necessary for a computer to work

well. If your motherboard is on the fritz, expect some big problems


MEMORY- Memory refers to the electronic storage devices
or chips on the motherboard of a computer.

ROM
1 It is permanent
storage of the
computer
THE THREE KEY RAM
TYPES OF 2 It is used as
temporary
MEMORY IN A storage.
CACHE
COMPUTER makes it easy to
3 quickly retrieve
data, which in
turn helps devices
run faster.
INPUT AND OUTPUT
INPUT
DEVICES : OUTPUT DEVICES:
In radiology, most machines today
In Healthcare Oximetry device placed on a
patient’s finger uses light
input images from the X-Ray
machines to a computer rather than
storing them on film. In fact, the most
settings waves to detect impulses that
are sent to a computer and
advanced imaging machines could
not exist without computer
devices: then interpreted as oxygen
levels in the blood.
technology. Computerized
tomography (CAT) scans and medical
axial

resonance imaging (MRI) machines


The electrodes placed on a are the best-known computerized
patient’s body provide input to imaging devices.
the computerized physiologic
monitors.
In healthcare settings,
a variety of medical VOLUMETRIC
devices serve as output INFUSION PUMP
devices:

HEART MONITOR
04

05

06 01
Storage Media
includes the main memory but also external

devices on which programs and data are stored .


The hard drive is a peripheral device that has
very high speed and high density.That is, it is
a very fast means of storing and retrieving
data as well as having a large storage capacity
HARD DRIVE compared with other types of storage. The
hard drive is the main storage device
of a computer.
Storage Media
noted that flash drives are not really used in clinical settings, at least not for business or patient care
purposes. However, they are often carried by personnel who may plug them into the hospital’s
computer to do personal work. There is a danger that they can end up compromising patient’s or
company’s confidentiality. Nurses should not save confidential patient information onto their
personal flash drive (or any other personal storage devices). It is too easy to lose the drive itself,
andthen confidential information could end up anywhere!

Is actually a form of a small, removable


HARD DRIVE
hard drive that is inserted into the USB
USB FLASH port of the computer. The USB drive is
also known as pen drive, jump drive,
DRIVE thistle drive, pocket drive, and so forth.
This is a device that can store 4
gigabytes (GB) of data.Flash drives can
be very tiny—only about ½ in. by 1 in. in
some cases. They can also be much
bigger and can store 128GB or more
data.
Storage Media
Storage includes the main memory but
also external
devices on which programs and data are It include CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray. CD-ROMs and DVDs are
stored. rigid disks that hold a higher density of information and
have higher speed. Until the late 1990s, CD-ROMs were
strictly input.

HARD DRIVE They were designed to store sound and data, and held
about 737MB of information and large laser writers were
USB FLASH DRIVE required to store data on them. Thus, they were read-only
media. However, technology developed in the 1980s by

OPTICAL MEDIA Philips Corporation permitted the development of a new


type of CD that could be written on by the user. It is called
CD-RW for compact disc read–write. DVDs were
developed and held approximately 4.3GB of information,
which handled a regular 2h movie. These DVDs were too
limited to handle high-definition movies and movies
longer than 2h, and thus media moved to the even higher
storage capacity of Blu-ray discs that store
approximately 27GB of information or the equivalent of a
2h high-definition movie.
Storage Media
includes the main memory but also
external devices on which programs and
data are stored.

Diskettes could not store large amounts


HARD DRIVE of data, so people began to search for
economical and speedy ways to back up
USB FLASH DRIVE
OPTICAL MEDIA the information on their hard drive.

OTHER Zip drives, which were mini magnetic


tape devices,
STORAGES were a form of relatively fast (in their
time) backup storage
for people’s data

Thumb (USB) and external hard drives


were faster than tape media and
replaced it as the backup media of
choice.
Storage Media
Storage includes the main memory but
also external
devices on which programs and data are
Data stored “in the cloud” are still stored on
stored.
commercial computers called servers.
However, “cloud” refers to a distributed system
of many commercial, networked servers that
communicate through the Internet, and work
HARD DRIVE together so closely that they can essentially
USB FLASH DRIVE function as one large system. Physically,
OPTICAL MEDIA enormous numbers of servers that store data
OTHER STORAGES are located in buildings, many warehouse

CLOUD
sized. These data storage sites are called data
centers.

STORAGE Multiple data centers are linked together to


create cloud storage. If one server in a data
center becomes inoperable, copies of the data
on that server are stored elsewhere and thus
the data are not lost. They can be retrieved
from another server.
THANK
YOU!

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