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.

RELATED ENGINEERING BRANCHES
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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• Chapter-wise notes with diagrams, equations and formulas
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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.