Basic Computer Parts

What parts are in the tower?

Some of the parts inside the tower are the processor, motherboard, power supply, a hardrive, and more.

What parts are in the tower

What cords and devices connect to the CPU/Tower?

What cords and devices connect to the CPU/Tower?

• Monitor
• Keyboard
• Mouse
• Power cord
• VGA or HDMI cable

What does CPU and USB stand for?

CPU stands for Central Prossing Unit. USB stands for Universal Serial Bus.

What does CPU and USB stand for?

What is the main purpose of this cord?

What is the

main purpose of this cord?

The main purpose of the ethernet cord is to connect to other local area networks. Which enables other people to play online.

What are the two things it is connected to in class?

Ethernet cords are usually connected to, the computer, modem, and a router.

What are the

two things it is connected

to in class?

What is the difference between Wifi and an Ethernet cord?

Ethernet cords are faster than wifi and more dependable. It is also more secure than wifi is and can almost always guarantee security. Ethernet is usually not as expensive.

How it is different from Wifi

What cable has almost replaced all VGA cables with modern computers?

What cable has

almost replaced

all VGA cables

with modern

computers

DVI and HDMI are considerably newer connection type that transfers digital signals while VGA is older and transfers analog signals

-https://www.hp.com

What two devices are connected by this cable?

The VGA cable acts as a link between the computer and the monitor or between the computer and a display device.

-sfcable.com

What two

devices are connected

by this

cable?

What purpose does this cord

serve?

The VGA cable transfers visual data from the computer to a display device.

What purpose

does this

cord serve?

What does VGA stand for?

What does

VGA

stand for?

VGA stands for Video Graphics Array.

What is a HomeRow?

The home row refers to the row of keys on the keyboard where the fingers rest when one is not typing. The row is the reference point from which all the other keys can be reached and is usually the middle row on the keyboard.

What is a Home Row?

What is Capslock?

The Caps Lock key is a toggle key that lets you switch the letters on your keyboard from lowercase to uppercase.

What is Capslock?

How does it connect? Where does it connect?

All wireless keyboards have a receiver plugged into the computer, usually plugged into a USB and the keyboard connects to that receiver wirelessly. Once connected, make sure your wireless keyboard has batteries or is charged and turned on.

How does it conect? Where does it connect?

Left Click

Left click is know as the "Normal click". When pressing left click you can drag and drop items, select text, or open files

What does left click do?

Left Click

Right Click

Right click is known as the "secondary click," right clicking typically opens the context menu, which provides operations that pertain to the menu, file name or icon that is right clicked.

What does right click do?

Right Click

What was the mouse originally called?

The mouse was originally called the "bug." Douglas Engelbart and Bill English invented the mouse then named it the "Bug" in 1964.

What was the mouse originally called?

How does it connect? Where does it connect?

A cordless mouse has a small receiver that communicates with the mouse. The receiver connects to the computer via a USB port.

How does it connect? Where does it connect?

(Gracie)

What is the moniter use for?

Alternatlivey referred to as a VDT and VDU, a monitor is an output device that displays video, images, and text, but this isn't all it can do these are just some things it can do.

(Zoey)

How is the screen of the moniter measured?

How is the screen of the monitor measured?

Monitor size is measured by the distance from one corner of the screen's viewable area to the diagonally opposite corner.

(Zoey)

What cords connect to the Monitor?

What cords connect to the Monitor? Which cord connects to our computer monitors?

Theres a lot of cords that can connect and may be a VGA, S-Video, DVI, HDMI, DP, or USB-C. VGA and DVI are older connections, wheres HDMI, DisplayPort, and especially USB-C are newer.