Course Code: CIT 352 T P C

Course Title: PC System and Peripheral Repair 1 3 2

A major course dealing with the main component of the microcomputer motherboard, its internally attached
components and the peripherals. It is designed to provide student with skills and knowledge to maintain, diagnose
and repair computer main system board and peripherals. It covers concepts and methods of preventive
maintenance, fault diagnose of motherboard, power supply, memory, storage device, PCB, printers, monitors and
other externally attached component of computer system. This has laboratory component.

Course Objectives
At the end of the course the students are expected to be able to
Understand the concepts and methods of computer system maintenance
Apply skills and knowledge to maintain PC main system component and peripherals.
Understand the operational principles PC power supplies.
Assemble and disassemble printers, scanners, monitor, mouse, keyboard and cards.
Diagnose and repair faulty PC main system board and peripherals.
Demonstrate patience and motivation in repairing minute computer components

COURSE OUTLINE
Contents Hours
1. Preventive and Practical Maintenance 2
1.1. Contributors to Failures
1.2. Scheduled Maintenance and Error/Fault Record
1.3. Engineer’s Toolbag and Use of Testing/Measuring Instruments
1.4. Maintenance through Replacement
1.5. Introduction of Input / Output Devices
1.6. Second Level of Maintenance
1.7. Hardware Diagnostic Routines and Diagnostic Software

2. Troubleshooting and Repair of Motherboard 3

2.1. Introduction to Motherboard
2.2. Motherboard and CPU Architectures
2.3. CPU Socket Types
2.4. Expansion Bus and alternatives
2.5. Motherboard Connectors and BIOS / CMOS
2.6. Commonly Occurring Faults and Important Signals for Fault Tracing
2.7. Diagnostic Tests
2.8. Preventive Measures

3. Troubleshooting and Repair of Power Supply 2

3.1. Operating Principle of a Power Supply
3.2. Power Supply Connectors
3.3. Power Supply Safety
3.4. Troubleshooting Procedures and Commonly Occurring Faults
3.5. Repair Techniques and Replacing a Power Supply
4. Troubleshooting Memories and Storage Devices 4
4.1. Overview of RAM Module Types
4.2. DDR Speeds
4.3. Installation of RAM
4.4. Troubleshooting Routines
4.5. Storage Technology and Types (PATA / SATA / SSD etc)
4.6. Backup Storage and RAID Levels

5. Maintenance and Repair of Printers

5.1. Ink Jet Printer 2

5.1.1. Jet Ink Printer: An Introduction
5.1.2. User Level Preventive and Corrective Maintenance
5.1.3. Disassembly and Assembly of Jet Ink Printer
5.1.4. Common Faults and Repairing Jet Ink Printer

5.2. Laser Printer 2

5.2.1. Introduction of Laser Printing
5.2.2. Common Faults and Safety Measures
5.2.3. Preventive maintenance and Corrective Maintenance

5.3. Network Printer 2

5.3.1. Introduction of Laser Printing
5.3.2. Common Faults and Safety Measures
5.3.3. Preventive maintenance and Corrective Maintenance

5.4. Plotters 2
5.4.1. Introduction of Plotter
5.4.2. Common Faults and Safety Measures
5.4.3. Preventive maintenance and Corrective Maintenance

6. Maintenance and Repair of Scanners 2

6.1. Types of Scanners (Flatbed vs Sheetfed)
6.2. An Overview: Image Reading
6.3. Disassembly and Assembly of Scanner
6.4. Common Faults: Steps of Preventive and Corrective Maintenance

7. Maintenance and Repair of Display Devices 3

7.1. Overview of Monitors
7.2. Overview of LCDs
7.3. Overview of Multimedia Projectors
7.4. Common Faults and troubleshooting

8. Maintenance and Repair of Keyboard 2

8.1. Basic Working of Keyboard and Keyboard Installation
8.2. Disassembly/Assembly of a Keyboard
8.3. Interface Problems
8.4. Diagnostics, Preventive and Repair techniques
9. Maintenance and Repair of Mouse 2
9.1. Working of a Mouse and Installation
9.2. Disassembly and Assembly of a Mouse
9.3. Cleaning and Preventive Measures

10. Troubleshooting Basic I/O Interface Card and Surface Mount PCB 2
10.1. Theory of Basic Input and Output Ports
10.2. Construction of an I/O card
10.3. Fault Diagnosis and Repairs.
10.4. Use of Special Tools for Soldering
10.5. Troubleshooting an IC and SMD

11. Customized Systems 2

11.1. Introduction to Customized Systems
11.2. Thick Clients
11.3. Virtualization Workstation
11.4. Audio Video Editing Station
11.5. Gaming Systems
11.6. Types of Servers
11.7. Troubleshooting an IC and SMD

References

CompTIA A+ 220-801 and 220-802 Authorized Cert Guide, Third Edition, Mark Edward Soper, David L.
Prowse and Scott Mueller.

Microprocessors And Interfacing 2E, DOUGLA V Hall by McGraw-Hill Education

The Complete A+ Guide to PC Repair Fifth Edition Update (5th Edition), Cheryl Schmidt

A Guidebook in PC Hardware, Maintenance And Repair Ent 284, William A. Lloyd by PRINCE
GEORGE'S COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Computer Hardware Technicians CH111, 5 CD-ROM set by NCSA Academy USA Computer Hardware
Technicians
 CIT 352 – PC System and Peripherals Repair 96 Hrs.
LIST OF PRACTICALS
1. Use of Testing and Measuring Instrument
2. Disassembly and Identification of Motherboard Components
3. Diagnostic Test of Motherboard
4. Disassembly and Identification of Power Supply Parts
5. Troubleshooting Power Supply
6. Troubleshooting Memory
7. Disassembly and Identification of Floppy Disk Parts
8. Preventive Maintenance and Troubleshooting of Floppy Disk Drive
9. Identification of Hard Disk Parts
10. Identification and Troubleshooting of Surface Mount PCB
11. Installation and Setup of Dot Matrix Printer
12. Identification and Disassembly/Assembly of Dot Matrix Printer
13. Fault Diagnosis and Preventive and Corrective Maintenance of Dot Matrix Printer
14. Installation and Setup of Line Printer
15. Identification and Disassembly/Assembly of Line Printer
16. Fault Diagnosis, Preventive and Corrective Maintenance of Line Printer
17. Installation and Setup of Jet Ink Printer
18. Identification and Disassembly/Assembly of Jet Ink Printer
19. Fault Diagnosis, Preventive and Corrective Maintenance of Jet Ink Printer
20. Installation and Setup of Laser Printer
21. Identification and Disassembly/Assembly of Laser Printer
22. Fault Diagnosis, Preventive and Corrective Maintenance of Laser Printer
23. Installation and Setup of a Scanner
24. Identification and Disassembly/Assembly of Scanner
25. Fault Diagnosis, Preventive and Corrective Maintenance of Scanner
26. Identification and Disassembly/Assembly of Monitor and its Interface Card
27. Troubleshooting, Preventive and Corrective Maintenance of Monitor
28. Identification, Disassembly and Assembly of Keyboard and its Interface Card
29. Fault Diagnosis, Preventive and Corrective Maintenance of Keyboard
30. Identification and Disassembly/Assembly of Mouse and its Interface Card
31. Troubleshooting, Preventive and Corrective Maintenance of Mouse
32. Identification and Disassembly/Assembly of Common Interface Cards
33. Troubleshooting, Preventive and Corrective Maintenance of Common Interface Cards
 CIT 352 – PC System and Peripherals Repair
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. Preventive maintenance
1.1. List the contributors to failures of system
1.2. Describe the effects of corrosion and magnetism to system performance
1.3. Handle correctly peripherals
1.4. Describe Virus and prescribe measures to prevent virus attacks
1.5. Schedule maintenance
1.6. List tools used for system maintenance
1.7. Use correctly testing and measuring instruments
1.8. Make error or fault records
1.9. Describe fault-finding flowchart
1.10. Perform system maintenance by replacement
1.11. Describe second level maintenance
1.12. Describe hardware diagnostic routines
1.13. Use diagnostic software
1.14. Describe the limitation of diagnostic software

2. Troubleshooting and Repair of a Motherboard

2.1. Describe motherboard
2.2. Describe system board and planar board
2.3. Identify motherboard components and functional block using block diagram
2.4. Enumerate types and characteristics of CPU
2.5. Differentiate types of bus and slots
2.6. Describe daughter boards
2.7. Identify common video, I / O types
2.8. List of commonly occurring motherboard faults
2.9. Identify important signals for fault tracing
2.10. Isolate the area of fault probability
2.11. Describe diagnostic tests and perform fault preventive measures
2.12. Perform card substitution method for repairs and replacement of motherboard

3. Troubleshooting and Repair of a Power Supply

3.1. Describe regulation of power supply.
3.2. Explain operating principle of power supply
3.3. Interpret block diagram or schematics of power supply
3.4. Describe switch mode and transformer-based unit of power supply
3.5. Explain block diagram of a switching power supply.
3.6. Describe battery type power supply
3.7. Determine different output voltages of power supply
3.8. Test good signal power supply
3.9. Explain how a power good signal is produced
3.10. Perform troubleshooting procedures of power supply
3.11. Localize the fault into a narrow region of the circuit
3.12. Identify commonly occurring faults of power supply
3.13. Explain causes of faults in power supply itself
3.14. Use essential tools and test equipment
3.15. Explain concept of a dummy load for testing a power supply in no load condition
3.16. Describe various repairing techniques
3.17. Perform soldering/desoldering, chip/component replacement
3.18. Perform replacement of power supply

4. Troubleshooting Memories and Storage Devices

4.1. Describe RAM and ROM
4.2. Enumerate different types of memories
4.3. Describe each type of memory
4.4. Describe parity error in memory
4.5. Perform troubleshooting routines of memory
4.6. Replace memory chip
4.7. Describe the operational principles of floppy and hard disk drives
4.8. Identify parts of floppy and hard disk drives
4.9. Describe the IDE and SCSI setup of drives
4.10. Install and setup floppy and hard disk drives
4.11. Describe operational principles of tape, compact, Bernoulli and Zip drives
4.12. Install and setup tape, compact, Bernoulli and Zip drives

5. Peripherals
5.1. Describe peripherals configuration
5.2. Describe [Link] file and its significance
5.3. Explain configuring techniques
5.4. Describe auto-configuration and Plug and Play devices

6. Maintenance and Repair of Printers

6.1. Dot Matrix Printer
6.1.1. Maintain and Repair Dot Matrix Printer
6.1.2. Identify parts of dot matrix printer
6.1.3. Describe operation of dot matrix printer.
6.1.4. Describe steps to install a dot matrix.
6.1.5. Explain the significance of a test print / Self- Testing.
6.1.6. Interpret the information given on a test page.
6.1.7. Demonstrate the cleaning of the printer.
6.1.8. Explain schedule for Technician Level Maintenance.
6.1.9. Disassemble and assemble dot matrix printer
6.1.10. Diagnose faulty dot matrix printer.
6.1.11. Repair faulty dot matrix printer

6.2. Line Printer

6.2.1. Explain print mechanism of line printer to print a complete line at a time.
6.2.2. Describe Installation steps for a line printer
6.2.3. Explain every indicator especially the engineer’s fault indicator of line printer control panel
6.2.4. Test line printer
6.2.5. Explain the significance of result of test.
6.2.6. Explain these with the help of the technical service manual, which accompanied the printer.
6.2.7. Explain with the help of user manual of the printer. Emphasis is given to constantly followed
cleaning printer as well as the environment. Air-conditioning plus very accurate supply line.
6.2.8. Use the technical service manual
6.3. Jet Ink Printer
6.3.1. Explain the operational principles of jet ink printer
6.3.2. Identify working parts of jet ink printer
6.3.3. Describe the function of each part of jet ink printer
6.3.4. Install a jet ink printer
6.3.5. Identify common faults occurring in jet ink printer
6.3.6. Disassemble and assemble jet ink printer
6.3.7. Perform preventive and corrective maintenance of jet ink printer
6.4. Laser Printer
6.4.1. Explain the operational principles of laser diode.
6.4.2. Describe the working of a photocopier for comparison with working of a laser printer.
6.4.3. Identify the laser printer Parts
6.4.4. Install toner cartridge, connecting printer’s Cable and cord, loading paper. customize options
6.4.5. Use online help
6.4.6. Installing memory cards.
6.4.7. Explain the front panel information: Error, Data, Ready, On/Off, and Blinking.
6.4.8. Describe the laser printer common faults
6.4.9. Explain the danger against laser beam exposure of eyes and skin etc.
6.4.10. Explain the steps for preventive maintenance with the help of a user manual.
6.4.11. Perform corrective maintenance

7. Maintenance and Repair of Scanners

7.1. Explain image reading
7.2. Explain optical character recognition mechanism.
7.3. List the top software available in the market and describe their salient features.
7.4. List kinds of scanners
7.5. Explain the usage and technical difference
7.6. Install and operate scanner
7.7. Explain the physical connection, the loading of software, setting up the configuration (theory only) etc.
7.8. Use a scanner.
7.9. Disassemble/Assemble a scanner
7.10. Describe common scanner faults
7.11. Perform preventive maintenance
7.12. Perform corrective maintenance

8. Maintenance and Repair of Monitors

8.1. Describe CRT, Power Supply, Scan Board
8.2. Define pixels, dot pitch, aspect ratio, power indicator, contrast, brightness, -/+ buttons, and other adjustment
buttons
8.3. Describe horizontal position/size, vertical position/size, 15-Pin D-Subtype connector, non-glare screen, tinted
screen, and tilt/swivel stand.
8.4. Describe video controller chip, video RAM, video image chip, digital to analog converter, port to monitor,
signal assignment, factory preset timing signals
8.5. Describe display adapters: MDA, CGA, EGA, VGA, SVGA, XGA, 8514.
8.6. Differentiate color monitor diagram from monochrome monitor diagram.
8.7. Enumerate common faults of a monitor
8.8. Classify various faults: Power Supply-based, deflection faults, horizontal hold, vertical hold, and alignment
faults, supply line faults, interface-based faults.
8.9. Diagnose common monitor faults
8.10. Describe preventive measures for monitors.
8.11. Identify the field reparable parts of the card.
8.12. Describe predetermined fault.
8.13. Diagnose monitor interface card fault.
8.14. Repair reparable interface card

9. Maintenance and Repair of Keyboard

9.1. Describe basic working of a keyboard
9.2. Define concept of rows and columns to form a matrix of key positions.
9.3. Disassemble keyboard
9.4. Identify keyboard matrix, controller chip, 5-pin connector.
9.5. Describe functions of signals between the CPU and keyboard
9.6. Assemble keyboard
9.7. Clean dirty key contacts

10. Maintenance and Repair of Mouse

10.1. Describe operating principle of mouse
10.2. Describe GRU interface/ Pointing device.
10.3. Disassemble mouse
10.4. Identify mouse parts such rollers, ball, photo diode, LED
10.5. Describe different mouse: serial, BUS type, two buttons, three buttons, wireless type, and laptop type
mouse.
10.6. Show restriction on mouse movement
10.7. Clean mouse as a preventive measure

11. Troubleshooting Basic I/O Interface Card and Surface Mount PCB
11.1. Interpret schematic diagram of various cards
11.2. Identify functional blocks of I/O card
11.3. Describe a multi I/O card.
11.4. Design an I/O card to control a motor moving in counterclockwise/counterclockwise direction.
11.5. Describe working of I/O card
11.6. Identify flow of circuit through block diagram
11.7. Diagnose faults
11.8. Describe 74244 as basic input interface and 74374 as a basic output interface.
11.9. Describe working of 8255 and PPI chip.
11.10. Describe various application chip such as 8279, 8254, 8251.
11.11. Identify replaceable parts of a card
11.12. Replace replaceable parts of I/O card