Basics of Personal Computer Hardware

The personal computer (PC) is one complex piece of machinery. Its made up of many individual components that will baffle the uninitiated. To learn about PCs, one has to have a desire to learn and experiment - it took me at several years before I got comfortable with building and maintaining my own computers.

This is not to say that PC technology is terribly hard to learn. All you need to know is the how a basic PC is set up, and what components are required.