Linggo, Marso 15, 2015

Installing OS

In installing OS, the actions are as follows,

You MUST have an installer..
Know the System Requirements.
Configure BIOS
Install ..

And lastly ENJOY !!

Computer System Unit Components

Here are some :

Motherboard - a printed circuit board containing the principal components of a computer or other devices.
Power Box- electronic device that supplies electric energy to an electrical load.
RAM- "Random Access Memory"
Processor
Hard Disk
SATA Cables
Fan


ETC...

Basic Computer Hardware Troubleshooting

First, the very IMPORTANT thing.....

CHECK THE POWER SUPPLY.. !!

Then, make sure that all hardware are properly connected.
Reboot your computer.
Check the device manager.
Check if all devices or hardware are not broken or damaged.
Test the electrical outlet.


You must do this on some errors like THE BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH ..

Computer Generations

There are 5 :

1st Generation – Vacuum Tubes
2nd Generation – Transistor
3rd Generation – Integrated Circuit
4th Generation – Microprocessor
5th Generation – AI or Artificial Intelligence.

Machine Cycle

It is also called processor cycle. It is the basic operation performed by the main logic unit of the computer which is the CPU.

The machine cycle has 3 steps :

1. Fetch
2. Decode
3. Execute
There is another step which is "Store".





Networking

Network - is a group of two or more computer systems linked together.
Packet - is the unit of data that is routed on a network.

There are different types of network :
Some are WAN, MAN, LAN, WLAN ,etc.


In data representation, data are represented as electromagnetic signals such as an electrical voltage, radiowave, etc.

Martes, Marso 10, 2015

Conversion

Actually, conversion on BIN/DEC/HEX.

BINARY – DECIMAL [Positional Notation]
DECIMAL – BINARY [Division by Two with Remainder]

BINARY- HEXADECIMAL [4 bits = 1 hex digit]
HEXADECIMAL – BINARY [1 hex digit = 4 bits]

DECIMAL – HEXADECIMAL [Dec-Bin-Hex][ /16 ]
HEXADECIMAL – DECIMAL [Hex-Bin-Dec] [Place Values]

Binary

Binary means "composed of two parts".
A binary number is a representation for numbers using only two digits (0 and 1)
It is also called "base-2"

Binary