CPU
Introduction to CPU
8086 compatible instructions
CISC and RISC instructions and their handling
Clock frequency
Cache RAM
CPU – areas of development
The CPU speed measurement
CPU changes historical review
Pentium
Pentium MMX
Cyrix 6X86
AMD
Cyrix 6X86MX
Pentium Pro
Pentium II
CPU sockets and chip sets
Clocking
Over-clocking
CPU that support over clocking
Video system
Introduction to vedio system
Pixels
Greater resolutions
Colour,colour depth and RGB
Refreshing the screen image
Trinitron or Invar
Multisync screen with digital control
LCD screens
Color adjustments
Screen savers
Video card
RAM on the video card
Cards and chips
Operating and file systems
File systems
The formatted disk
Sectors and Clusters
The root directory and other directories
File fragmentation
Partitioning with FDISK
The primary partition and booting
Operating system
System software
Operating systems
DOS control of hardware
32 bit drivers
Expansion cards and interfaces
Introduction to I/O
The internal I/O ports
Adapters
Modular PC design
IRQ
DMA
Bus mastering
I/O addresses
PC Card
EIDE
Transfer speeds and protocols
Ultra DMA
Advanced Graphics Port
Small Computer System Interface
SCSI is intelligent
Advantages of SCSI
Universal or Useless Serial Bus
IEEE 1394 FireWire
Drives and other storage media
Drives
Interface
Floppy drives
Hard disks
Physical aspects of the hard disk
Hard disk limitations
Hard disk interface
Optic storage media
CD and DVD- ROM
MO drives
Tape streamers
PC data
Data
Bits and digital data
Bytes
ASCII
PC system board
Introduction to the PC
Motherboard and Power Supply
PC construction
History of the PC
Data exchange - the mainboard
POST and CMOS
The Setup program
BIOS programs and ATX
The boot process
The data flow on the system board
Introduction to the PC busses
The system bus
66 MHz and 100 MHz bus
Introduction to the I/O busses
Technical and historical background for the I/O busses
The ISA bus
MCA, EISA and VLB
The PCI bus
Chip set
Triton
Intel TX chip set - AGP and Ultra DMA
Chip sets for Pentium Pro and Pentium II
RAM
SIMM modules
DIMM modules
PC100 RAM and Rambus RDRAM
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Computer hardware
Drives and other storage media
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