Skillsfuture@PA PC Laptop Upgrading
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Objective
This course equips participants with the basic hardware knowledge of a Laptop and simple tips on how to open it, identify what’s inside and upgrading it to give your laptop a second life!

Who should attend?
This course is targeted at anyone who has a keen interest in computer hardware architecture but has little or no basic skills and knowledge of it but interested to upgrade their old laptop.

Why should they attend?

  • Learn about the hardware terminology and jargons use.
  • Understand hardware technology through upgrading a laptop.  
  • Easy to follow step-by-step instructions with guidance from experience trainer.
  • Perform basic hardware upgrades.
  • Practical Hands on
  • Know the Safety precautions involved

What you’ll learn

  • Identify Basic Components Inside of a Laptop
  • Dismantle a Laptop Easily
  • How to Speed up your Laptop
  • Upgrade to a Solid State Drive in Minutes
  • Tweak your SSD
  • Replace your Optical Drive with a second Hard Drive
  • Clone a Hard Drive Easily or Make a Back-up
  • Add and Replace RAM in your Device
  • Upgrading your battery and Wireless
  • How to use your mini PCI-E slot
  • Replace/Clean the Fan and Heatsink
  • Replace Thermal Compound
  • Upgrade BIOS
  • Upgrade Operating System to Windows 10.
  • Perform Windows updates

Are there any course requirements or prerequisites?

  • Basic Knowledge of PC/Laptops and Hardware
  • PC DIY

Trainer 's Profile:

  • Has been in the IT Industry for more than 20 years.
  • Experience in Hardware assembling, trouble-shooting and repair on PC, laptop & Server
  • IBM Professional Server Specialist (PSS),
  • Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE),
  • RedHat Certified Engineer (RHCE),
  • Dip in Electrical Engineering, Singapore Polytechnic, SG
  • Dip in Computer Studies, NCC UK
  • B.Sc in Computer Science, Open University UK

Course Outline

Understand What's Inside of a Laptop?

  • Basic tools you need
  • Basic component of a computer system
    • System Board
    • Memory
    • Hard Disk Storage  
    • Wifi module
    • Fans
    • LCD Display
  • Introduction to various laptop designs
  • Know the various brands available in the market.

Upgrading RAM

  • Memory types
  • Identify the kind of ram
  • Know the maximum support memory capacity
  • How much RAM will I need for Windows 7/8/10 , 32bits or 64bits
  • How to add ram

Upgrade your Laptop using an SSD (Solid State Drive)

  • SSD - is it Worth it?
  • How to Clone a disk
  • Install our new SSD

Replace your Optical Drive with a 2nd HDD/SSD (Solid State Drive)

  • What you need.
  • How to do it Step-by-step
  • Enable extra drive to be seen in Windows OS

Windows OS Installation or upgrading

  • Types of Windows OS
  • Install from Scratch or Upgrade
  • Upgrading to Windows 10
  • Hints and Tips

Familiarize with the BIOS & Laptop Startup

  • Power On Self Test (POST)
  • Boot sequence
  • Set & Clear boot password
  • How to upgrade bios

Safety notes and Cautions

Practical Labs

 

Register online @ http://www.onepa.sg

SDF Applicant, please register @ https://www.skillsconnect.gov.sg

IT Centre reserves the right to reschedule the course without prior notice due to class size or unforeseen circumstances.