1. The Guts A beginner’s guide to the vast array of internal hardware in a PC By: Lisa Fiedler

2. Before You Begin… Clean area Tools Shocking!

3. Backside A good tech knows what hardware is available by feeling the back panel!

4. Crack ‘er open Figure out the release method Lay it on it’s left side

5. Mother may I? Socket 754 Mother board

6. The Brain Does the calculations to run the entire unit Binary! Socket 775 Socket A Slot 1

7. Picture Perfect The card you would plug a monitor into AGP slot VGA connector

8. Call me NIC Where you plug in the Cat 5 cable PCI slot RJ-45 connector

9. Can you hear me now? Where you plug in the speakers

10. Baaaaaaa (RAM) DIMM or SIMM? Memory you can see

11. Not really that hard RAID the fridge Save your stuff

12. Total versatility Games, music, movies, programs galore DVD, CD

13. Flipity-Flop 3.5” floppy drive 1 MB of memory

14. Vac-Attack Take the PC outside if possible Don’t spin the fan Hook it back up neatly Turn it on, make sure it works Leave a note

15. Credits Pictures courtesy of: www.tigerdirect.com www.computergeeks.com NEXT The End