On December 18th, the ICT 12 class was assigned to take apart a Compaq DeskPro desktop computer. I wasn’t here at this time, but my partner Jason of our group, LJ Global Tech, took care of the disassembly himself. Pictures of the inside of our assigned desktop computer were taken. In our pictures, a lot of the parts are identifiable as key components of the computer. For our disassembly, we were given a tool set with tools designed to take apart computers. In the photo to the right is one of the most important components of the computer. The “block” shown here in the middle contains the computer’s hard drive, CD drive, and floppy disk drive hardware. The cords connected to this “block” are power and data cords connected directly to the three hardware components. The picture here below shows more key components to the computer. This includes the computer’s motherboard, power source, and cooling fan. The following class on December 20th 2007, the class moved on to reassembly of the computer. I was able to take part in the reassembly portion of this project. During reassembly, a lot of computer components looked familiar as I identified the components mentioned earlier. When the computer was put together, we tested it to see if it was operational. It failed to start, but we identified the problem to be a disconnected cord from the power source to the motherboard. On the second test, we got our computer to run smoothly at an operational level.
