Motherboard Service Training Syllabus
 
CHIP SYSTEMS: PROGRAM MODULE & FACILIATION PLAN (Motherboard)

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Day
Description
Duration
Tips
Practical
Class
1
Day1
WHAT IS MOTHERBOARD?,1.CARD LEVEL SERVICE,2.CHIP LEVEL SERVICE CHIP LEVEL,A) COLD CHECKING, B)HOT CHECKING, MOTHERBOARD HISTORY. 1.Bus based computers. 2.Single board based computers,MOTHERBOARD MANUFACTURING COMPANIES, How  is make Computer Motherboard  MOTHERBOARD  TYPES, 1.IBM PC MOTHERBOARD 2.PC XT MOTHERBOARD 3. PC AT MOTHERBOARD, 4.MINI AT MOTHERBOARD , 5.LPX MOTHERBOARD, 6.ATX MOTHERBOARD7, MINI ATX MOTHERBOARD 8.MICRO ATX MOTHERBOARD, 9.FLEX ATX MOTHERBOARD, 10.NLX MOTHERBOARD 11.WTX MOTHERBOARD, Color of Motherboard Identify, MOTHERBOARD PARTS IDENTIFICATION, MOTHERBOARD PARTS, Pentium 2 Motherboard, Pentium 3 Motherboard, Pentium 4 Motherboard,
1.30 hrs
T
Motherboard
2
Day2 CHIP LEVEL SERVICE TOOLS,1.SOLDERING IRON (TIP) 2.MICRO  SOLDERING IRON 3.BLOWERS 4.MULTIMETER (DIGITAL) 5.SOLDERING LED 6.DE SOLDERING PUMP 7.JUMPER WIRE 8.LIQUID FLEX 9.DRY FLEX 10.SCREEW DRIVER 11.TWEEZER 12.REBOLING KIT 13.BRUSH 14.LENZ WITH TWEEZER 15.Magnifing Lenz with Lamp 16.NOSE PLAYER 17.CUTTER 18.DEBUGGING CARD 19.IRON CLEANING CLOTH 20.SMPS 21.Monitor & Keyboard 22.IPA Thinner Solution 23.Testing Speaker 24.Testing PROCESSOR & RAM 25.CRO  26.Desoldering wick 27.PCI VGA  / AGP /PCI Express Card 28.Cleaning brush 29.Scrab board (845,865,915 & Ext.).30.IC Pin diagram –Datasheet 31.Bios Writer SUPPORTED SERVICE SPARES,VARIETY  OF MOTHERBOARD: PracticalSOLDERING & DE-SOLDERING GUIDE1.How to Solder-Practice GUIDE 2.How to De-solder-Practice Guide3.Tools Handling Do’s and
1.30 hrs T
Motherboard
3
Day3 Automic Structure, AC, DC Examples of A.C, D.C, Voltage, Power Defirence between Ac & DC, Flow of Current, Conductor, Insulator, Semi Conductor, What is Electrical, Electronics, Type of Electronics, Voccum Tube Electronics,Normal Enlectronics, SMt Electronics, General Components, Multimeter Usages.
1.30 hrs T/P
SMT
4
Day4 Resistor:-Type of Resistorr, Active, passive Components,Colour Coding, Excercises, Series, parallel, Type of Resistors, Corbon Resistor, Metal oxide resistor, Metal film Resistor,Wire wound Resistor, SMT Resistor, Preset Resistor, Resistor Resting Method, Using Multimeter, SMT Resistor testing, soldering & Desoldering Normal Resistor, SMT Resistor.
1.30 hrs T/P SMT
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Day5 capacitor, Material in Capacitor,Electrolytic & Non electrolytic Capacitor,Relationship between Resistor, Cpacitor, Type of capacitor, Air Capacitor, paper capacitor, Mica Capacitor ceramic capacitor, Electrolytic capacitor, Variable capacitor, SMT Capacitor, Smart Tweezer. 1.Capacitor Checking Method-Normal 2.Capacitor Checking Method-SMT, Soldering & De soldering  (Normal Capacitor), Soldering & De soldering(SMT Capacitor)
1.30 hrs T/P SMT
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Day6 Inductor,Type of Inductor-Air core Inductors,Ferrite Core Inductors, Pot Core Inductors, variable Inductors, SMT Inductors,Practical 1.Inductor Checking Method-Normal, SMT Removing & Re fixing of Normal Inductors SMT Inductors. Crystal Oscilator : Types, Working fuctions, Frequencies Hetz, crystal Osc Utnits, Checking of Scrystal Osc. Removing & Re fixing of Scrystal Osc, Realtime Srystal. Transformer,Types of transformers -Step up Transformer Step Down Transformer, Center tapped transformer Multi output Transformer, SMt Transformer, testing of transformers primary Section Test, Secondary test, Ground test, Primary to Secondary. Open Transformer test, Removing & Refixing of Normal -Transformers, SMt Transformers
1.30 hrs T/P SMT
7
Day7 Diode, Forward Bios, Reverse Bios, Types of Diode, P.N.Junction Diode or  Power Diode, Zener Diode Photo diode or Signal Diode, Light Emitting Diode-L.E.D Gunn Diode, varactor Diode, SMT Diode SMT checking Methd, Normal Checking Methode Normal LED, SMT LED Checking Methode Soldering & Desoldring of Normal Diode, SMT Diode
1.30 hrs T/P SMT
8
Day8 Transistors, Types of transistors, BJT-PNP,NPN
UJT Type:-FET,MOSFET,SMOS FET, SMT Mosfet,
1.Checking of Normal Transistor, SMT Transistor (PNP,NPN)
2.Removing & Re fixing of NORMAL Transistors type
3.Removing & Re fixing of SMT Transistors type
1.30 hrs T/P SMT
9
Day9 What is I.C-Integrated CHIP, Birth of I.C, Inside of I.C parts of I.C, Types of I.C-Pin IC, ball I.C Single Side I.C (With Pin), Double Side (With Pin) Double side Square IC (with pin), Four side Square IC (with pin) Ball IC type : Four side square I.C-No Pin various models of Ball I.C-SIP,DIP, PGA, LGA, Fabrication Structure, IC Pin Details, Removing & Refixing of ball IC,PIN I.C
1.30 hrs P
SMT
10
Day10 Motherboard Offline Checking (Cold Checking),Ground Checking, IC Checking, Capacitor, MOSFETS, RESISTOR Full Practicals Removing Replacing, Checking & Recall Previous Chapters.
1.30 hrs P
Motherboard
11
Day11 Models of the Motherboard, Motherboard Detailed List, List of Motherboard Working Function, Motherboard Block Diagram, Bus Connectivity
1.30 hrs T
Motherboard
12
Day12 Various sections of Motherboard
1.Power Section,2.Processor Section,3.Chipset Section,
4.Memory Section,5.Front & back Panel Section
6.IO Section,7.Clock Section,8.Bios,9.CMOS Section,
10.VGA Section,11.Onboard Sections(Audio,LAN,USB Section)
1.Power Sections : How is checking the SMPS, Customer Form
Factor of SMPS,Front pannel Connectors,Explain AT & ATX Power Connector, Power Section Components Explain, SMPS Wire- voltage Identification Power Section Practicle: 1.Capacitor Removing  MOSFET Replacement Procedure.
1.30 hrs T/P
Motherboard
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Day13 2.Processor Section : 1.What is Processor, 2.OldProcessor
1.30 hrs T/P Motherboard
14
Day14 3.Processor Sockets, 4.Slot Processor, 5.Types of Processor 6.Processor Company, 7.Intel Processor, 8.AMD & Other Processor 9.Processor Working Voltage, 10.Processor heat sink & Fan, 11.Processor Working Functions, 12.Processor Clock speed 13.Processor Checking Methode, 14.Server processor, 15.Processor Nearest components, 16.Processor technologies 17.16 Bit, 32 Bit Processor, 18.Core 2 Quad, 19.Core 2 Duo, 20.AMD Athelon 64 , 21.MMX Technology, 22.HT Technology 23.Processor FAN, 24.What is Cache & Etc. 1.30 hrs T/P Motherboard
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Day15 3.CHIPSET SECTION : HOW IT IS WORKING CHIPSET TYPES & LIST COMMON CHIPSETS DIAGRAM,OLD  TYPES, PRACTICALSCHIPSET NEAREST MOSFETS REMOVING METHODE, CHIPSET NEAREST CAPACITOR REMOVING METHODE CHIPSET IC, TO REMOVE THE  CHIPSET IC USING BGA REMOVER KIT ONLY. WE TRY TO REMOVE THIS IC USING BLOWER. (IT IS NOT ADVISIBLE) 1.30 hrs T/P Motherboard
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Day16 4.MEMORY  SECTION:RAM WORKING FUNCTION, WORKING OF RAM, TYPE OF RAM SPEED OF RAM, RAM CAPACITY & SPEED, LIST RAM TECHNOLOGY, Memory Modules MANUFACTURERE  LIST RAM COMPATABILITY,  LIST MEMORY SECTION OF THE MOTHERBOARD MEMORY SECTION NEAREST COMPONENTS PRACTICLE 1.RAM MOSFET, MEMORY SECTION NEAREST COMPONENTS (Capacitor) Ram Slot Removing & Replacement. 1.30 hrs T/P Motherboard
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Day17 5.FRONT PANEL, BACK PANEL SECTIONS :(A) BACK PANEL  CONNECTORS, 1.MOUSE CONNECTOR, 2.KEYBOARD CONNECTOR, 3.PARALLEL PORT, 4.COM PORT, 5.VGA CONNECTOR, 6.1394 FIREWALL PORT (OPTIONAL), 7.USB PORTS,8.LAN CONNECTOR, 9.SPDIF OUT (OPTIONAL), 10.AUDIO Connectors 11.GAME PORT, 12. eSATA PORT (B) FRONT PANNEL CONNECTOR, 1.HARD DISK LED 2.RESET LED, 3.POWER LED, 4.POWER SWITCH 5.SPEAKER CONNECTOR 6.USB CONNECTOR, C) INSIDE Connectors, SLOTS  PIN Details, 1.RAM Connectors 2.PCI Slots 3.AUDIO Connectors 4.SATA Connectors 5.Serial Connectors (COM Port), 6.Front USB Connectors 7.IDE Connectors 8.FDD Connectors 9.Mouse Connectors 10.AGP Slots 11.Pci Express Slots 12.MMC (Card Reader) 1.30 hrs T/P Motherboard
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Day18 Motherboard Voltage Measurement and Testing Full Practicals.
1.30 hrs P
Motherboard
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Day19 6.I/O SECTION (SUPER IO CONTROLLER),IO IC BRANDS,1.SMSC 2.NATIONAL SEMI CONDUCTOR, 3.WINBOND 4.ITE,5.VIA & Etc IO Chip Removing and Fixing
1.30 hrs T/P
Motherboard
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Day20 7.CLOCK SECTION:1.What is Clock ?, 2.WHAT IS CLOCK SPEED 3.CLOCK SECTION COMPONENTS, 4.CLOCK IC COMPANIES, 5.CLOCK IC PIN DETAILS 6.WHAT IS CRYSTAL OSCILATOR, 7.HOW  IS WORKING OF CRYSTAL OSCILATOR, 8.NEAREST SMD CAPACITOR 9.NEAREST SMD RESISTOR
1.30 hrs T/P
Motherboard
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Day21 1.WHAT IS IC DATASHEET, 2.DATASHEET CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION 3.Datasheet Search Engines, 4.EXAMPLE OF IC DATASHEET MANUFACTURERS WEBSITE 5.HOW TO GET THE DATASHEET IN THE WEBSITE 6.WHY WE ARE CHOOSE THIS WEBSITE IS 7.IO Chip Removing and Fixing (We Already see in this chapter Day18. Now you can Re call the Practicals),8.CLOCK SECTION – IC REMOVING PRACTICALS 9.IO,CLOCK SECTION NEAREST COMPONENTS
1.30 hrs P
Motherboard
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Day22 8.BIOS SECTION:1.WHAT IS BIOS, 2.BOOTING PROCESS, 3.WHAT IS POST (POWER ON SELF TEST), 4.IDENTIFY YOUR BIOS CHIP (ON THE MOTHERBOARD) 5.LATEST MOTHERBOARD BIOS IC, 5.MODELS OF BIOS IC, 6.BIOS IC REMOVING TOOL (DIP type), BIOS IC REMOVING TOOL (PLCC type), THERE ARE TWO METHODE OF FIXING THE BIOS IC INTO THE MOTHERBOARD, 7.PLCC BIOS IC SOCKET (BASE) PIN DETAILS, 8.IDENTIFY YOUR BIOS IC NUMBERS 9.IDENTIFY YOUR BIOS IC COMPANIES, 10.BIOS TYPE POST SCREEN IDENTIFICATION, 11.BIOS (CMOS) JUMPERS, 12.BIOS WORKING FUNCTIONS 13.BIOS SECTION COMPONENTS, BIOS IC COMPANY SERIAL NO.IDENTIFY 13.BIOS Chip Manufacturing Companies, BIOS IC REMOVING & REPLACING BIOS IC REMOVING & REPLACING, BIOS IC REMOVING & REPLACING BIOS IC NEAR DIODE REMOVE METHOD
1.30 hrs T/P
Motherboard
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Day23 BIOS UPDATING & COPYING,WHY WE WANT TO UPDATE THE BIOS, What actually happens when I flash my BIOS? COMMON BIOS  UPDATE, HOW TO UPDATE THE BIOS (Example AMI BIOS), HOW TO VERIFY NEW BIOS -UPDATING, 1.BIOS UPDATE BIOS Flash – the risks, 2.CHANGE A NEW BIOS  IC – (RE-COPY), Example  of BIOS  IC WRITTER, Motherboard Manufacturers BIOS Upgrades, BIOS setup SIMULATIONS,BIOS SETUP SCREEN, BIOS ERROR CODES, AMI BIOS CODES,AWARD Bios Beep
1.30 hrs P
Motherboard
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Day24 9.CMOS SECTION ON MOTHERBOARD,CMOS SECTION COMPONENTS, 1.WHAT IS CMOS: TYPES OF CMOS BATTERY, 2.CMOS BATTERY HOLDER,3.WHAT IS R.T.C (Real Time Crystal), 4.CMOS Clear Jumper,5.NEAR SMD COMPONENTS, CMOS SETTINGS,CMOS BATTERY,WORKING FUNCTION,What's the difference between BIOS and CMOS?,COMPARE- CMOS, RAM, NV-RAM, and ROM? HOW TO ENTER CMOS SETTINGS,HOW TO REMOVE CMOS BATTERY FROM THE MOTHERBOARD,CMOS BATTERY TESTING METHOD,
10.VGA Sections,1.VGA Connector, 2.DVI Connector, 3.S-Vedio Connectors VGA CARD, AGP Cards & slots.,Pci Express Slots, Speed of Add on Cards Slots VGA COLOR PALLETS, 2.VGA IC (Some Board only Available), 3.MOSFETs 4.SMD Components, 5.North Bridge, HOW TO REMOVE VGA CONNECTOR
1.30 hrs T/P Motherboard
25
Day25 10.ONBOARD SECTION: AUDIO SECTION:What is Audio, AUDIO IC’S, 1.Analog Devices.Realtek (RTC, Avance Logic), C-Media (CMI), VIA, VIA IC’S, Cirrus Logic, AUDIO IC REMOVING METHODE, AUDIO CONNECTOR REMOVING METHODE, ETHERNET IC BRANDS, LAN IC BRANDS, IDENTIFY ETHERNET IC IN THE MOTHERBOARD, SOME OF REALTEK ICS, ETHERNET IC REMOVING METHODE, ONBOARD USB, USB CONNECTOR REMOVING METHODE PS2 Keyboard & Mouse Connector  Removing Method, The Same way you can Remove Replace this class.
1.30 hrs T/P
Motherboard
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Day26 DEBUG CARD:TYPES OF DEBUG CARD,ISA CARD,2.PCI CARD, 3.EXTERNAL Card (LPT & Com Port Type ), 4.MINI PCI TYPE,DEBUG CARD INSIDE, DEBUG CARD DEFINITIONS, HOW TO INSTALL DEBUG CARD, MODELS OF DEBUG CARD,
1). 2-Digit PCI Motherboard Diagnostic Debug Card
2). 2-Digit External Display PCI Diagnostic Debug Card
3). Dual LEDs PCI Diagnostic Debug Card
4). 4-Digit PCI Motherboard Diagnostic Debug Card
5). 4-Digit PCI USB Parallel Motherboard Diagnostic Debug Card
TYPES OF ERROR MESSAGES,DUTIES OF  BIOS - DURING THE POST  FUNCTIONS
HOW TO TEST THE  MOTHERBOARD,GENERAL PROBLEMS - POST CODES
AMI BIOS,AWARD/Phoenix Post Code Error,VEDIOS Download
1.30 hrs P
Motherboard
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Day27 Common Problems
1.Restarting problem, 2.No power, 3.Not booting, 4.Hanging problem, 5.Dead Board, 6.USB port not working, 7.Keyboard not working, 8.Mouse not working,
1.30 hrs P Motherboard
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Day28 9.Parallel port problem, 10.Audio port problem, 11.Serial port not working, 12.VGA section problem or no  display, 13.Junk display, 14.Continious RAM beep sound, 15.Power on but immediately processor fan off, 16.BIOS corrupted, 17.Post Screen hangup Problems
1.30 hrs P Motherboard
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Day29
Chip/Port Related Problems
18.IO Related Problems, 19.Clock  Related Problems, 20.Power IC Related Problems, 21.Audio IC Related Problems, 22.Ethernet IC Related Problems, 23.Bios ROM IC Related Problems, 24.North Bridge IC Related Problems, 25.South Bridge IC Related Problems, 26.Processor Related Problems, 27.Processor Fan Related Problems, 28.Rear Panel Ps/2 Related Problems, 29.VGA Connectors Related Problems, 30.Audio Port Related Problems, 31.Usb Port Related Problems, 32.Serial Port Related Problems,
1.30 hrs P
Motherboard
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Day30
33 PRINTERS OR PARALLEL PORT Problems, 34 PCI CONNECTOR  Problems, 35. AGP SLOT  Problems, 36. PCI EXPRESS SLOT (4x, 16 xs)  Problems, 37. IDE SLOT  Problems, 38. RAM MODULE  Problems, 39. ATX POWER CONNECTOR  Problems, 40. RAM MOSFET& CAPACITOR  Problems, 41. CPU NEAR MOSFET& CAPACITOR  Problems, 42. CRYSTAL OSCILLATORS  Problems, 43. BIOS IC SOCKET&CMOS BASE  Problems, 44.HEATSINK  Problems, 45.SMT COMPONENTS  Problems, 46.REAL TIME CLOCK (RTC)  Problems, 47.SATA CONNECTOR  Problems, 48.BOARD TRACKS (BUS)  Problems, 49.PHYSICAL DAMAGE  Problems, 50. POWER SHORT  Problems
1.30 hrs P
Motherboard

Other that this Syllabus we give Guidelines of 

1.Clock Generator IC(WINBOND, ICS, ETC)
2.Serial Port IC(GD75232, ST75185, ETC)
3.LAN IC (3COM,REALTECH, MARVEL, ETC)
4.Audio IC (CRYSTAL, ALC, CREAFVE, ETC)
5.BIOS (SST, WINBOND, INTEL, ETC)
6.MOSFET (92039, 70120H, IS313W, 537, FR3704, ETC)
7.Socket (SMPS, IDI, CPU FAN, CMOS, CFLL, ECT)
8.Motherboard Brands (INTEL, ASUS, GIGBYTE, MERCURY, MSI, ETC)
9.CPU Type (LGA775,DUALS730,QUODSLOT2, SLOT1, SLOT7ETC)
10.North Bridge (NFORCE, AMD, SIS, VT, I845, I875)
11.South Bridge (SIS, VT, INTEL, NVDIA)
12.Connectors (VGA, PS2, VSB, KEYBORD, SOUND, LPT, SERIAL, LAN, ECT)
13.SMD Component (RESISTOR CAPACITOR, TRANSISTOR, DIOD, FUSE, COIL, ETC)
14.Crystal (14.318 CLOCK , ETC)
15.I/O Controller IC (ITE, WINBOND, FDC, SMSC, SMART ETC)
16.VRM- Voltage Regulator Module IC (RTL, ADP, WINBOND, ETC)
17.RM- Voltage Regulator Module Mosfet(-CHN017NF, HAP117, B5TO3GH, F3711S,NIKOS ETC)