Lab #2 What is there inside your PC?

Stephan ChiuEE NTU

http://nslab.ee.ntu.edu.tw/courses/intro-cs-spring-04/lab/index.htm

Some useful info.

• Tom’s Hardware Guide: – http://www.thg.com.tw/

• 超頻者天堂– http://www.oc.com.tw/

• “Whatis” website– http://www.whatis.com/

• 華亞電腦– http://www.wasia.com.tw

Take apart a PC

• Take apart the case.• Unplug the PCI cards and a AGP card.• Show them the components of the motherboard.

– CPU– Memory– Bridge– PCI, AGP– BIOS– IDE– Panel– Input, output interfaces

• Show them the hard disk, CD ROM, floppy.

exercise

• Tell me the name of one component or a device and explain it briefly.