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this video is going to be over chapter 3 part 3 of 3 for computer assembly
chapter 3 computer assembling this is going to be part 3 of 3 upgrade and
configure a computer so in this video we're going to look at upgrading and
configuring a computer and explaining how to upgrade components in a computer
system to meet requirements that you might need so when we are upgrading a
computer we have to look at the computer components that are on there and see if
we can't upgrade those you can have anything from upgrading the motherboard
to upgrading your bios to upgrading your hard drives different things that you
can do in there when you're going to be upgrading a motherboard you need to
consider all of the things that connect into it such as your power supply does
your current power supply going to meet the requirements for your new
motherboard that you're going to be putting in or your RAM drives RAM sticks
gonna fit you know are you gonna have enough enough space in your in your
current case to upgrade the motherboard so those are things that you need to
consider when you're upgrading that when you're upgrading the components on a
motherboard those are things like Ram and you're gonna upgrade those or add
new Ram in there you just need to make sure that those also fit right so when
you're updating the motherboard you want to record the front panel wire locations
if the case documentation is not available what I usually do is just take
my phone and just take pictures of the casing on the inside of the case to make
sure I know where everything goes and the power should be connected last by
the by the way always disconnect the power supply always disconnect the power
to your computer and let it set for a little bit I usually let mind set for 2
to 3 minutes to make sure that all the electricity has dissipated enough or
that it's that it that electricity is not still flowing through the components
now when you upgrade the BIOS there are some times where the firmware needs to
be updated and I have had in my computing history where I
was trying to install some new software and it just would not install and there
was another time where I was trying to do VirtualBox which is a virtual
software on my computer and it would not install properly
because I needed to go into the BIOS and set some make some changes and in the in
the previous case to install the software I had to upgrade the BIOS
before that software would install it just needed the current bios upgrade so
you want to check the manufacturers website to get the BIOS upgrade on that
when you're doing your BIOS upgrade you want to make sure you don't power off
your computer you want to make sure that everything stays powered on why that
process is happening and so again just check the manufacturers website to
download any firmware updates and make sure that you're getting the correct
information on there when you are upgrading your CPU and your heatsink and
fan assembly sometimes I've had fans go out on my heatsink and I've had to
replace those other times I've upgraded the CPU usually what I have done is I've
not upgraded the CPU I've just upgraded the motherboard the CPU and the fan and
everything all in one shot or all in one one at one time but there are some
people that upgrade their CPU just make sure that the CPU are upgrading to
doesn't match your motherboard one of the things that's most common in
upgrading a computer is the RAM or your random-access memory when you upgrade
that make sure that you're using the type of Ram make sure you're matching
that properly if you're adding more in if you're not removing the old Ram is
there enough RAM slots available for that is it gonna all match you need to
check your speed your latency your type your voltage you need to check all of
that and make sure that it exists your Matt your current Ram or if you're just
upgrading all of it you know that are you gonna have enough slots you know for
example like there's like three slots on this motherboard here or you if you only
have one Ram chip in there now if you're gonna add two more does it match what's
already there is it gonna cost conflicts and you just
need to make sure that everything matches up on that now when we upgrade
the storage devices when we are plugging in new storage devices those are
probably the easiest part of upgrading a computer you can take out an older drive
and maybe you're upgrading to an SSD drive you just want to make sure that
all your software and information is backed up before you start pulling
things out you know unless you don't have anything on the drive but you want
to make sure that when you put it in there that you know an SSD Drive can in
vastly improve the speed of a computer and so it can allow for backups I've I
usually carry two drives now in my desktop computer I put two SSD drives in
there just so that it's operate it operates faster I run my main operating
system off one SSD and then I do all my file storage and file swapping on
another drive so that it just makes it a lot faster so you just want to make sure
that you're getting the right drives that you are able to get the right
cables and make sure everything fits properly on that now when we're
upgrading peripheral devices such as a monitor or a keyboard or a mouse or
something like that you just want to make sure that everything fits properly
they know that if you're upgrading your keyboard to a wireless keyboard make
sure that you know that it's going to be close enough to the computer or the
receiver make sure that when you're upgrading your monitor that you have the
right cables if you're upgrading from an RGB monitor to a DVI monitor make sure
that you have the right cables make sure that you have the right video card and
everything's gonna work properly and then when you put those on there's a
sometimes drivers and software the newer operating systems do a pretty good job
of making sure you have the proper drivers but sometimes you need to go to
the manufacturers website to get the right drivers just make sure that you
have signed drivers when you're working with the windows operating system to
make sure that those are going to work properly and if those have been tested
okay so this was a short part of the chapter 3 this was chapter chapter 3
part 3 of 3 and we discussed in Chapter through we discussed computer cases how
they come in various sizes and configurations we discussed the central
processing unit or CPU how that's installed on the motherboard and make
sure that you put thermal compound and make sure that your heatsink is and your
fan are assembled properly when you're putting RAM and make sure that it's in
the proper slot and you don't push it into too tight you know don't break
anything that we installed hard drives whether it's a three and a half inch
drive or if you've got a smaller drive maybe an SSD drive that you have the
proper cases that are gonna fit in that or
sometimes you have to have you have to have slots that you buy extra to go with
those drives and make sure that your power supply cables are properly
connected and that you have those kind of moved out of the way I always try to
make my cables and tie them up so that I get proper airflow through the case and
then we also looked at external cables connecting peripheral devices to the
computer we look we talked about beep codes and what those mean in a in a boot
up process we talked about the BIOS we talked about the UEFI and we also talked
about upgrading components and about adding extra hard drives in there so I
hope this video was helpful for you again my name is Jason Johnson thank you
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