CSC231 PC Demolition Lab 2014
--D. Thiebaut (talk) 19:37, 6 October 2014 (EDT)
This lab requires you to write a report. The report is due 9/17/10 at 11:59 p.m. + 1 minute. The report has to be a Wiki page, which should be accessible from here.
Contents
Setup
- Create a team of 2 or 3 people.
- Take one of the old PCs in FH343, and bring it to FH342. Only take the PCs indicated to you as "Old PCs".
- Once the PC is in FH342, take it apart.
- Take pictures of all the parts you find. You will later create a Wiki page documenting your experience. This wiki will have photos and paragraph describing the parts you find.
- You need to have photo and a description for the following items:
- the motherboard
- the hard disk (which you may want to take apart).
- the motherboard
- the RAM
- the crystal giving its frequency to the processor
- the processor
- the cooling system for the processor
- The CD-Rom drive
- The power-supply
- The cabling system.
Photos
- Take pictures of all the computer parts you find, discover, remove, take-apart!
Lab Report
- Create a wiki page linked to your name. The main URL for the student wiki page is http://cs.smith.edu/classwiki/index.php/CSC231_Page_(2014)
- Your wiki should have your name (or first name, if you prefer not to have your last name on world wide available pages).
- The class number (CSC231)
- The date
- a paragraph describing the goal for the lab, and including a description of the type of computer you took apart (Dell PC). Make sure you indicate the model number.
- Make sure you document the main players for our class this semester: the processor and the memory! Because these are important, feel free to describe them more at length. In particular, figure out how to get the model number for the processor by removing the thermal paste the cover the processor.
- A list of all the parts that were identified and/or removed. Each item should have a picture, and a paragraph (up to 5 lines) describing its function in a computer.
- PLEASE: whenever you create a new page, or upload a new picture not already in the wiki, please prefix it with "CSC231_xxx" where xxx are your initials or a unique Id of yours. The reason is that if somebody uploads a photo and calls it processor.jpg and somebody decides to upload another photo and calls it with the same name, the second photo will "overwrite" the first one in all pages.
- Feel free to format the wiki page with more sophisticated features (documented in the tutorials indicated below).
- Put this mediawiki tag at the end of your page:
[[Category:CSC231]]
. This way your page will appear in the CSC231 category page. It's an easy way to find pages related to a common subject.
Available resources
- All Web/Internet resources are fine, except wiki pages from other students in the class!
- The following pages maintained by MediaWiki cover many formatting features:
