https://padlet.com/bmccain21/ngjwly4l6twh made to help with tech problems en-us 2019-02-13 20:16:39 UTC 2024-05-31 21:09:52 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/File.png bmccain21 https://padlet.com/bmccain21/ngjwly4l6twh/wish/333377575 i chose this article because i want to know how cd reader work. the technology is a cd/dvd reader. a cd/dvd reader works by a laser running over the reflective suffuse and when the laser goes over a bump on the cd/dvd it interprets the bump as a 1 or a 0 and that tells the player/computer to play this data. one new thing that i learned is that a catalog of the data is at the center of the disc and tells the reader what it should load before playing the cd/dvd. i hope you learned as much as i did from reading the article as you will reading this.]]> 2019-02-20 20:20:06 UTC https://padlet.com/bmccain21/ngjwly4l6twh/wish/333377575 bmccain21 https://padlet.com/bmccain21/ngjwly4l6twh/wish/337667972 the tower pc i'm taking apart is an Aberdeen computer looks about mid 90's to 2000's with flaps on both sides that open up with a small 🤬 on both sides to allowing the user to open the computer with out using a screw driver the front comes off with out a screw driver and is held in place with snaps and a circle key lock. on the computer each connector on the back is labeled ]]> 2019-03-04 20:40:42 UTC https://padlet.com/bmccain21/ngjwly4l6twh/wish/337667972 bmccain21 https://padlet.com/bmccain21/ngjwly4l6twh/wish/338601462 this is the power supply for the computer and converts the power from the wall outlets outage to a lower power outage i believe bast on the red switch that it converts to 15 volts and if you 🤬 it it changes to probably 25/16 volts. ]]> 2019-03-06 20:22:07 UTC https://padlet.com/bmccain21/ngjwly4l6twh/wish/338601462 bmccain21 https://padlet.com/bmccain21/ngjwly4l6twh/wish/341514904 the cd/dvd drives on the front of the computer have manufacturer dates on the top the first one is dated 2004 and the bottom drive is dated 2000. we have two cd drives and a sound component in the front which normally is in the back of the computer and controls the sound of the computer and the other two drives are cd drives which just does what any regular cd drive does reads cds.  ]]> 2019-03-14 19:35:54 UTC https://padlet.com/bmccain21/ngjwly4l6twh/wish/341514904 bmccain21 https://padlet.com/bmccain21/ngjwly4l6twh/wish/341516400 this is the side of the computer to show what the cables for the power supply to connect to the mother board and cd drives and sound drive  ]]> 2019-03-14 19:40:41 UTC https://padlet.com/bmccain21/ngjwly4l6twh/wish/341516400 bmccain21 https://padlet.com/bmccain21/ngjwly4l6twh/wish/353513877 the cpu inside the computer is a pentium 3 when i opened up the computer it was vertically up right on the mother board which was unusual for me because i was use to seeing the cpu soldered on the main board. it has about 256 to 512 kb on-die L2 cache memory]]> 2019-04-23 19:12:47 UTC https://padlet.com/bmccain21/ngjwly4l6twh/wish/353513877 bmccain21 https://padlet.com/bmccain21/ngjwly4l6twh/wish/354250672 it was a compony i did not know when we were taking the computer apart i had never herd of plextor before we took apart the computer.  it is a dvd R/RW drive which mean that the drive can read and write dvd's but it is also a cd drive as well so it can read dvd's and cd's and also write to both cd's and dvd's. ]]> 2019-04-25 19:10:11 UTC https://padlet.com/bmccain21/ngjwly4l6twh/wish/354250672