Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Day 5 --Connecting components

In this class, we are connecting all  the components with cables and power.  The hard drive and CD/DVD drive need to be connected to the motherboard and connected to power.  The connections to the switches and ports provided by the computer case need to be connected.  There are also fans/audio and other connections need to be made...

We first connect power to the disk drives and add an cable connection to the motherboard.

Next, we connect the computer case switches, such as the on/off and reset switches:
The on/off and reset switches are added
Some of the switches are tiny... And we have to consult the motherboard manual to determine placement...


There are a number of different wires to connect and the students look to find the connections.

Here are the USB and Audio connections....

We are nearly all connected:






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