Computer Dissassembly

On December 20, 2007 our ICT 12 class began a computer disassembly project. We were in groups of two and each group received a “retired” Compaq computer and a tool set. We disassembled our computer piece by piece and had a checklist of what had to be taken out. The tool set helped us in taking out small pieces in the computer that we couldn’t take out by hand. Some of the parts were hard to take out like the motherboard. For the motherboard I unscrewed all the screw and tried to take it out but it would not come out. I then had to ask for help from another group and they told me to just slide the motherboard out of the computer. After disassembling the computer we then had to put the computer back together and make it run. The re-assembling of the computer was easy but the first time me and my partner tried to run the computer it did not turn on. We then opened our computer again and found that one of the cords was not plugged into the right spot. We then got our computer to run once again and overall I found this to be a really fun project. Here is a list of what we had to disassemble.

Disassembly List
Disconnect obvious power and data connectors
Network card
Sound Card
Riser board
Hard drive
CD-ROM
Floppy drive
Speaker
RAM: number of “sticks”
Motherboard
Front panel
CPU cooling fins
CPU
Power Supply