PC Assembly and Disassembly

• Prepare all your tools

• Turn off the system unit

• Remove the ESD from your body

• Remove the screws on the system unit case

• Remove the components inside the system unit

Steps in PC Disassembly:

wall socket

Turn off the system unit and unplug from the ______

back

Unplug all cables connecting to the ___ of the system unit

unpainted

Touch the ______ part of your system unit with your bare hands to remove ESD

remote, safe

Always have the removed components placed in a ____ and _____ place

• Power supply

• Data cables

• Chips

• All drives

• Connectivity center

• Motherboard

Components inside the system unit that are to be removed:

• molex connectors

• motherboard power connector

• drive power connectors

• floppy drive connectors

• SATA power connectors

Power Supply – remove the ______ or the ________, _______, ________, __________

• IDE

• SATA

• Floppy drive

Data cables – ___, ____, _____

• RAM

• Video Card

• Network Card

• Sound Card

• Interface Cards (Bluetooth, FireWire, Serial, Parallel, SATA, IDE, USB, SCSI)

Chips – ___, _____, _____, _____, _____ (____, ____, ____, ____, ____, ____, ____, ____)

rubber eraser

Use a ______ to clean the connector edges of chips

• hard drive

• CD/DVD Drives

• Floppy Drive

All Drives – _____, ______, ______