Computer Hardware

Computer Hardware is a free engineering handbook with important course topics, detailed notes, diagrams, equations, formulas and study materials. Download this digital book and reference guide for ITI, Diploma, BE, BTech, BCA, BSc and other degree courses.

Study PC components, motherboards, BIOS, processors, RAM, buses, storage, I/O, operating systems and graphics hardware. Useful for exam revision, viva, interviews, assignments and quick reference.

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Computer Science Engineering (CSE), Computer Engineering, Information Technology (IT), Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE), Electronics Engineering and Computer Hardware Technology.

Explore 104 topics organized into 7 chapters.

TOPICS COVERED

PC BASICS & MOTHERBOARDS

1. Motherboard

2. Data

3. Bits and Digital Data

4. Bytes

5. ASCII

6. Introduction to the PC

7. PC Construction

8. History of the PC

9. Data Exchange – The Mainboard

10. POST and CMOS

11. BIOS Programs and ATX

12. The Setup Program

13. The Boot Process

14. Data Flow on the System Board

PC BUSES & CHIPSETS

15. Introduction to PC Buses

16. The System Bus

17. 66 MHz and 100 MHz Bus

18. Introduction to I/O Buses

19. Technical and Historical Background of I/O Buses

20. The ISA Bus

21. MCA, EISA and VLB

22. The PCI Bus

23. Chipset

24. Triton

25. Intel TX Chipset – AGP and Ultra DMA

26. Chipsets for Pentium Pro and Pentium II

MEMORY & PROCESSORS

27. RAM

28. SIMM Modules

29. DIMM Modules

30. PC100 RAM and Rambus RDRAM

31. Introduction to CPU

32. 8086 Compatible Instructions

33. CISC and RISC Instructions and Their Handling

34. Clock Frequency

35. Cache RAM

36. CPU – Areas of Development

37. CPU Speed Measurement

38. CPU Changes: Historical Review

39. Pentium

40. Pentium MMX

41. Cyrix 6X86

42. AMD

43. Cyrix 6X86MX

44. Pentium Pro

45. Pentium II

46. CPU Sockets and Chipsets

47. Clocking

48. Overclocking

49. CPUs That Support Overclocking

STORAGE & DRIVES

50. Floppy Drives

51. Drives

52. Interface

53. Hard Disks

54. Physical Aspects of Hard Disks

55. Hard Disk Limitations

56. Hard Disk Interface

57. Optical Storage Media

58. CD and DVD-ROM

59. MO Drives

60. Tape Streamers

I/O PORTS & INTERFACES

61. Introduction to I/O

62. Internal I/O Ports

63. Adapters

64. Modular PC Design

65. IRQ

66. DMA

67. Bus Mastering

68. I/O Addresses

69. PC Card

70. EIDE

71. Transfer Speeds and Protocols

72. Ultra DMA

73. Advanced Graphics Port (AGP)

74. Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)

75. SCSI Is Intelligent

76. Advantages of SCSI

77. Universal Serial Bus (USB)

78. IEEE 1394 FireWire

FILE SYSTEMS & OPERATING SYSTEMS

79. File Systems

80. The Formatted Disk

81. Sectors and Clusters

82. The Root Directory and Other Directories

83. File Fragmentation

84. Partitioning with FDISK

85. The Primary Partition and Booting

86. Operating Systems

87. System Software

88. DOS Control of Hardware

89. 32-Bit Drivers

VIDEO & DISPLAY HARDWARE

90. Introduction to Video System

91. Pixels

92. Greater Resolutions

93. Colour, Colour Depth and RGB

94. Refreshing the Screen Image

95. Trinitron or Invar

96. Multisync Screen with Digital Control

97. Color Adjustments

98. Screen Savers

99. LCD Screens

100. Video Card

101. RAM on the Video Card

102. Cards and Chips

103. Motherboard and Power Supply

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WHO IS IT FOR?

ITI and Diploma students, BE/BTech, BCA and BSc learners, teachers and computer hardware professionals. Use this free computer hardware ebook to study computer architecture and PC components, including historical hardware technologies. Suggestions for future improvements are welcome.