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ITE PC v4.0 Chapter 4 Instructor Professional Development Speaker Notes
To protect the computer, extend the life of the components, and protect the
data, proper preventive maintenance is required. Performance issues may
arise without regular maintenance and cleaning. Reliable and stable equipment
is a result of good preventive maintenance procedures.
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ITE PC v4.0 Chapter 4 Instructor Professional Development Speaker Notes
Use the tasks listed on the slide as a guide to create a software maintenance
schedule that fits the needs of your computer equipment.
• Review security updates.
Slide 7 • Review software updates.
• Review driver updates.
• Update virus definition files.
• Scan for viruses and spyware.
• Remove unwanted programs.
• Scan hard drives for errors.
• Defragment hard drives.
For example, high-traffic networks, such as a school network, may require
additional scanning and removal of malicious software or unwanted files.
• What other software maintenance tasks can you add to the list?
Slide 8 - Preventive Maintenance Benefits
• Be proactive in computer equipment maintenance and data protection. By
performing regular maintenance routines, you can reduce potential
hardware and software problems. This will reduce computer down time and
repair costs.
• A preventive maintenance plan is developed based on the needs of the
equipment. A computer exposed to a dusty environment, such as a
construction site, will need more attention than equipment in an office
environment. High-traffic networks, such as a school network, may require
additional scanning and removal of malicious software or unwanted files.
Slide 8 Document the routine maintenance tasks that must be performed on the
computer equipment and the frequency of each task. This list of tasks can
then be used to create a maintenance program.
• Increases data protection
• Extends the life of the components
• Increases equipment stability
• Reduces repair costs
• Reduces the number of equipment failures
• Can you think of any other benefits that preventive maintenance provides?
Teaching Strategy: To protect the computer, extend the life of the
components, and protect the data, proper preventive maintenance is required.
Performance issues may arise without regular maintenance and cleaning.
Reliable and stable equipment is a result of good preventive maintenance
procedures.
May 2007 pg 3 of 10
ITE PC v4.0 Chapter 4 Instructor Professional Development Speaker Notes
Troubleshooting is a skill that is refined over time. As you deal with more
problems, you will increase your troubleshooting skills by gaining more
Slide 9 experience. You will learn how to combine and skip steps to reach a solution
quickly. The troubleshooting process is a guideline that can be modified to fit
your needs.
NOTE: The term customer, as used in this course, is any user that requires
technical computer assistance.
After completing this section, the student will meet the following objective:
• Explain the purpose of data protection
• Gather data from the customer
• Verify the obvious issues
• Try quick solutions first
• Gather data from the computer
• Evaluate the problem and determine the solution
• Close with the customer.
May 2007 pg 4 of 10
ITE PC v4.0 Chapter 4 Instructor Professional Development Speaker Notes
If you are unsure that a backup has been done, do not attempt any
troubleshooting activities until you check with the customer.
Here is a list of items to verify with the customer about data backups:
• Date of the last backup
• Contents of the backup
• Data integrity of the backup
• Availability of all backup media for data restore
If the customer does not have a current backup and you are not able to create
one on the computer that has the problem, you should ask the customer to sign
a liability release form.
A liability release form should contain at least the following information:
• Permission to work on the computer without a current backup available
• Release from liability if data is lost or corrupted
• Description of the work to be performed
Teaching Strategy: A technician should take precautions before starting the
troubleshooting process. For liability reasons, either perform a backup or have
access to a backup.
Often, your best troubleshooting resource will be the owner or operator of the
equipment which you are working on. Use software and hardware tools to
make backups of the customer's data. Bring with you hardware and software
that will allow you to change out suspect hardware with known good hardware
and boot an operating system that is not booting properly. If you need to make
repairs on a system that the customer has not backed-up and if the problem
prevents you from making a backup, then obtain written permission from your
customer to proceed without the backup. The customer must understand that
there is an inherent risk to the data that is stored on the hard drive in many
situations.
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Teaching Strategy: The customer may say that a device is broken, but the
problem may be a connection issue or some other simple issue. Even if the
customer is in a panicked state, start with the basics before moving to more
difficult troubleshooting techniques. This could save you and the customer time.
Based upon the problem that the user is experiencing, make sure that simple,
basic problems that can be easily seen and corrected are covered. Very often,
obvious issues can be overlooked by the customer.
The list of suggested obvious issues is not an exhaustive list. The more
experience you gain with troubleshooting, the larger this list will become and
the easier these problems will be to identify.
Slide 13 – Try Quick Solutions
4.2.4 Try quick solutions first
The next step in the troubleshooting process is to try quick solutions first.
Obvious issues and quick solutions sometimes overlap each other and can be
used together to repair the problem. Document each solution that you try.
Information about the solutions that you have tried is vital if the problem needs
to be escalated to another technician.
If a quick solution does not resolve the problem, document your results and try
the next most likely solution. Continue this process until you have solved the
Slide 13 problem or tried all of the quick solutions.
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ITE PC v4.0 Chapter 4 Instructor Professional Development Speaker Notes
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Slide 16 – Gather Data from the Computer
• Each BIOS manufacturer has a unique beep sequence for hardware
failures. When troubleshooting, power on the computer and listen. As the
system proceeds through the POST, most computers will emit one beep to
indicate that the system is booting properly. If there is an error, you may
hear multiple beeps. Document the beep code sequence and research the
code to determine the specific hardware failure.
• If the computer boots and stops after the POST, you should investigate the
BIOS settings to determine where to find the problem. A device may not
be detected or configured properly. Refer to the motherboard manual to
Slide 16 make sure that the BIOS settings are accurate.
• Conduct research to determine what software is available to help diagnose
and solve problems. There are many programs available that can help you
troubleshoot hardware. Often, manufacturers of system hardware provide
diagnostic tools of their own. A hard drive manufacturer, for instance, may
provide a tool that can be used to boot the computer and diagnose
problems with the hard drive when it will not boot Windows.
• Do you know of any third-party tools that you can use to troubleshoot
computers?
Teaching Strategy: Be prepared with information of various third-party tools to
share with students. Discuss keywords to use when searching for these tools
on the Internet.
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Slide 24 – Q and A
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