PC TECHNICIAN
Duration: 4 weeks (40 hours, 2 hrs/day)
Grade: 9 to 12
Cost: $ 1999 + GST
Course Overview
- TAKING APART THE PC
- Identifying key hardware components
- The motherboard and power supply
- Display adapters and memory cards
- Floppy and hard disk drives
- The keyboard and mouse
- Seeing how the PC is designed
- Structuring memory
- Bus types: ISA, EISA, PCI, AGP, USB and FireWire
- Distinguishing among the x86, Pentium I-V and Itanium systems
- Basic software components
- BIOS and device drivers
- Comparing operating system versions
- CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
- TROUBLESHOOTING STRATEGY FOR PCs
- Designing a troubleshooting methodology
- Avoiding trouble: preventive maintenance
- Ascertaining where to begin testing
- Pinpointing common failure causes
- Finding the board with the problem
- Running the power-on self-test (POST)
- Troubleshooting system faults with POST
- Using POST audio and video error codes
- Determining what POST doesn't test
- Employing advanced diagnostic programs
- Testing for motherboard failures
- Isolating keyboard and display problems
- Solving interrupt (IRQ) and I/O conflicts
- WORKING WITH BASIC PC COMPONENTS
- Exploring with the motherboard
- CPU types: x86, Pentium I-V, Itanium
- Configuring jumper and CMOS settings
- Upgrading motherboards
- Adding plug-and-play components
- Troubleshooting the power supply
- Common power supply problems
- Uninterruptible power supplies and UPS monitoring software
- CONFIGURING I/O DEVICES AND DISPLAYS
- Making use of input/output devices
- Configuring network interface cards
- Setting I/O device configurations
- Monitors and display adapters
- Types of display adapters
- Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) video
- Refresh, interlace and multisync capability
- THE MEMORY
- Upgrading memory
- Choosing and installing memory
- Packaging memory
- Memory types
- Troubleshooting memory problems
- Locating failed memory devices using memory diagnostic tests
- Solving adapter card memory conflicts
- INSTALLING DISK DRIVES
- Selecting diskette drives
- Diskette types: 3-½", 1.44MB, ZIP
- Setting drives and cable orientation
- Using hard disk drives
- E-IDE, Serial ATA, SCSI and Ultra-SCSI
- Upgrading to larger hard disks
- Optimizing hard disk performance
- Mastering advanced-drive technologies
- CD-ROM: multispin, SCSI
- CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD+R/RW
- SOLVING SOFTWARE PROBLEMS
- Real-mode vs. protected-mode drivers
- Configuring driver software switches
- CONFIG.SYS in the Windows environment
- WORKING WITH PRINTERS AND PORTS
- Diagnosing printer problems
- Solving common printer problems
- Configuring serial and parallel ports
- Installing and testing serial devices
- Setting communication parameters
- Diagnosing serial port problems
For more information, please
call us at 647-430-7478 or email us at:hr@whizkids.ca |