INFORMATION

AND
COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY
(ICT)
COMPPUTER
SYSTEM
SERVICING (CSS)
GRADE 10-
IRENE M. ALFORTE
SPECIALIZATION
Subject Teacher
 Brain and Heart of Computer.
Like a human brain, the CPU
CPU- controls all the functions of the
computer.
CENTRAL
CPU’s job is to listen for input
PROCESSING data from devices like mouse
UNIT or other software. Then it looks
up instructions for that data
and executes those
instructions.
 A hardware component that
stores all of your digital
HD/HDD content.

HARD DISK Your

music,
documents,
videos,
pictures,
programs
DRIVE application preferences, and
operating system (O.S)
represent digital content stored
on a hard drive.

Hard Drives can be external or

internal.
Laptop hard drive Desktop Hard Drive
EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE
 Volatile Memory
Storage Capacity is HIGH

RAM- Fastest and costliest memory

of the computer
RANDOM Read or write memory of the
ACCESS computer

MEMORY The hardware in a computing device where the

operating system (OS), application programs and
data in current use are kept so they can be
quickly reached by the device's processor. 
RAM-RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY
LAPTOP DESKTOP
 Non-Volatile Memory

The Capacity of ROM is comparatively

ROM- smaller than RAM.

Read Only
Slower and cheaper than RAM

The Data in the rom can only be read by

Memory the cpu.

Stores the instruction that computers

requires during BOOTSTRAPING.

Bootstrap means to boot or to

load a program into a computer