3 Months Hardware Course

Contents Name
Fundamental of Computer

Historical / Conceptual
 How the PC Works
 Input / Output / Storage
 The Art of the PC Technician
 Tools of the Trade
 Avoiding Electrostatic Discharge
 Anti - Static Tools
 The Complete PC
 External Connections
 Devices & Their Connectors
 Inside the System Unit
 Case
 CPU
 RAM
 Motherboard
 Power Supply
 Floppy Drive
 Hard Drive
 Optical Drive
 Know Your Parts
 Recall

Operating System Basis

 What is Operating system
 Use of Operating system
 Types of OS
Operating System Installation
 Microsoft Windows XP
 Microsoft Windows 2000
 Microsoft Windows 2003 Server
 Microsoft Windows Vista
 Microsoft Windows 7
 Microsoft Windows 2008 Server
 Microsoft Windows 8
 Microsoft Windows 10
Dual Booting
 Use of Dual booting
 Dual Booting in Primary Drive

Live Operating System

 Mini XP or Live Windows

Desktop Experience
 Create a File/Folder
 Cut/Copy/Paste
 Wallpaper & Screen Saver
 Set Date/Time
 Shut down/Restart/Sleep/Hibernate
 Rename the File/Folder/Drive
 Change Mouse Pointer
 Startup
 Desktop Personalized
 Gadgets
 Display Setting
 Taskbar & Start Menu
 Help & Support
 System Information
 Check & Change Computer Name
 Computer Properties
 Jump List
 Windows Aero Peek
 Getting Started
 Windows Shaking
 Snipping Tool
Erase of Access
 On Screen Keyboard
 Magnifier
 Narrator
 High Contrast
 Use Computer without Display
 Make the Computer eraser to use
 Use the Computer without Mouse or Keyboard
 Make the Mouse & Keyboard easy to use

User Accounts & Group

 What is User
 What is Group
 Types of Users
 Create new user & group
 Enable the administration user
 Change the membership
 UAC
 Password Breaker
 Password Reset DISK
 Parental Control

Security Policies
 Password Polices
 Local Policies

DISK Operating System

 What is DOS
 Command prompt Commands

Nero (DISC Burning)

 Create Data DISC
 Copy DISC
 Make Mp3,Mp4,WMA,Audio DISC
 Create Nero Image
 How to Open the Image
 Erase The Re-writable DISC
Computer Management
 Device Manager
 What is Driver & their Functions
 Drive installation & Rolling back
 Enable /Disable the Devices
 Event Viewer
Performance Monitoring & Tools
 Virtual Memory
 Ready boost
 Performance monitoring
 Visual effects
 Action Centre
 System Startup
Security Tools
 Bit locker Drive Encryption
 Hidden the drive and File/Folders
 Organize the Computer
 Firewall Settings
 Windows defender
 Uses of Antivirus
 Scan with Antivirus
 Update the Antivirus
 DEP Settings
Internet Access
 What is web site
 About the search engine
 Web Browsers
 Internet explorer settings
 Downloading softwares
 Downloading antivirus
 Downloading the drivers
 Create email id
 Send/receive the mail
Windows live essential
 How to use live essential
 Windows update
 USB tools
 Pen drive bootable

Backup and Restore

 System restore point
 System image or root drive backup
 Ghost utility
 Data backup (logical drives)
 Data recovery softwares

Partition & Formatting Utilities

 What is formatting
 Types of formatting
 Disk management
 Partition magic software

File System and Hard Disk Drive Tools

 What is file system & types
 Features of NTFS
 Compression
 Encryption
 Disk quota
 FAT convert in to NTFS
 Disk cleanup
 Check Disk
 Disk defragmentation
 Basic to dynamic disk

Virtualization
 VM ware
 Virtual box
 Virtual pc
Troubleshooting & Maintenance
 Troubleshooting of Win 7 & XP
 Advanced options [F8]

System Tools
 Windows easy transfer
 Manage recycle bin space
 Typing tutor

Microprocessors
 Historical / Conceptual
 CPU Core Components
 The Man in the Box
 Registers
 Clocks
 Back to the External Data Bus
 Memory
 Memory & RAM
 Address Bus
 Modern CPUs
 Manufacturers
 CPU Packages
 The Pentium CPU: The Early Years
 Original Pentium
 Pentium Pro
 Later Pentium- Class CPUs
 Pentium II,III
 Pentium IV
 Early AMD Athol CPUs
 Processing & Wattage
 CPU Codenames
 AMD Athlon Thunderbird
 AMD Duron
 Intel Pentium 4 Willamette
 AMD Athlon XP (Palomino and Thoroughbred)
 Intel Pentium 4 ( Northwood and Prescott )
  AMD Athlon XP ( Thornton and Barton)
 Pentium 4 Extreme Edition
 Mobile Processors
 Intel Xeon Processors
 Early 64- Bit CPUs
 Dual- Core CPUs
 Intel Core-- Goodbye, Pentium
 Installing CPUs
 Why Replace a CPU?
 Determining the Right CPU
 Buying a CPU
 Preparing to Install
 Inserting a PGA - Type CPU
 Testing Your New CPU
 The Art of Cooling
 Know Your CPUs

RAM
 Historical / Conceptual
 Understanding DRAM
 Organizing DRAM
 DRAM Sticks
 Current RAM
 Consumer RAM
 Types of RAM
 SDRAM
 RDRAM
 DDR SDRAM
 DDR2,DDR3
 RAM Variations
 Working with RAM
 Do You Need RAM?
 Getting the Right RAM
 Installing DIMMs and RIMMs
 Installing SO-DIMMs in Laptops
 Troubleshooting RAM
BIOS & CMOS
 Historical / Conceptual
 We Need to Talk
 Talking to the Keyboard
 CMOS
 Updating CMOS: The Setup Program
 A Quick Tour Through a Typical CMOS Setup Program
 BIOS & Device Drivers
 Option ROM
 Device Drivers
 BIOS, BIOS, Everywhere
 Power - On Self Test (Post)
 Before and During the Video Test: The Beep Codes
 Text Errors
 POST Cards
 The Boot Process
 Care & Feeding of BIOS & CMOS
 Losing CMOS Setting
 Clearing CMOS
 Flashing ROM
 Recall
Expansion Bus
 Historical / Conceptual
 Structure & Function of the Expansion Bus
 PC Bus
 ISA
 Modern Expansion Buses
 PCI
 System Resources
 I/O Addresses
 Interrupt Requests
 COM & LPT Ports
 Direct Memory Access
 Memory Addresses
 Installing Expansion Cards
 Step 1: Knowledge
 Step 2: Physical Installation
  Step 3: Device Drivers
 Step 4: Verify
 Troubleshooting Expansion Cards
 Device Manager

Motherboard
 Historical / Conceptual
 How Motherboard Works
 Form Factors
 Essentials
 Chipset
 Motherboard Components
 Upgrading & Installing Motherboards
 Choosing the Motherboard & Case
 Installing the Motherboard
 Troubleshooting Motherboards
 Symptoms
 Techniques
 Options
 Power supply
 Historical/conceptual
 Understanding electricity
 Essential
 Powering the pc
 Supplying ac
 Supplying dc
 IT Technician
 Installation maintenance & trouble shooting power supplies
 Installing
 Cooling
 When Power Supplies Dies
 Fused & Files
 Modular Power Supplies
 Rail Power
Hard Drive Technologies
 Historical / Conceptual
 How Hard Drive Works
 Data Encoding
 Moving the Arms
 Geometry
 ATA THE KING
 ATA 1 to 7
 SCSI : STILL Around
 SCSI Chains
 SCSI IDs
 Termination
 Protecting Data Raid
 RAID
 Implementation RAID
 Hardware versus Software
 Personal RAID
 Managing Heat
 The future Is RAID
 Connection Drives
 Choosing Your Drive
 Jumper and cabling on PATA Drives
 Cabling SATA Drives
 Connecting SCSI Drives
 BIOS Support: Configuration CMOS and installing Drives
 Configuring Controllers
 Auto detection
 Boot Order
 Device Drivers
 Troubleshooting Hard Drive installation
 Spindle (or Rational ) Speed
 Implementing Hard Drives
 Historical / Conceptual
 Hard Drive Partitions
 BASIC Disks
 Dynamics disks
 When to partition
 Hard Drive Formatting
  File system in Windows
 FAT
 FAT 32
 NTFS
 The Partition and Formatting Process
 Bootable Disks
 Partition and Formatting in Windows
 Installing CD
 Partition and Drive Letters
 Disk Management
 Dynamic Disks
 Mount Points
 Formatting & partitions
 Maintaining and Troubleshooting Hard Drives
 Troubleshooting Hard Drive installation
 Third party Partition Tools

Removable Media
 Historical / conceptual
 Floppy drives
 Floppy Drive Basics
 Essential
 Installing floppy drives
 Flash Memory
 USB Thumb Drives
 Flash Cards
 Optical Drives
 CD / DVD Media
 Installing Optical Drives
 Troubleshooting Removable Media
 Floppy Drives Maintains and Trouble Shooting
 Trouble Shooting Optical Drives
 High Definition / Blue Ray Optical Drives
Input/output
 Supporting Common I/O Ports
 Serial Ports
 USB Ports
 Fire wire Ports
 General Port Issues
 Common I/O Devices
 Keyboard
 Mice
 Scanners
 Digital Camera
 Web Cameras
 Specialty I/O Devices
 Biometric Devices
 Bar Code Readers
 Touch Screens
 Recall