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The inside of an PATA IDE device ATX personal computer versus the inside of a SATA device PC

558 views · Published 12 December 2012 · 15:35 · Indexed 10 October 2026

Channel: RodneyDickson · 2012 · Science & Technology

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WARNING - I will NOT be held responsible for any damages the methods shown in this video may cause to yours or someone else's hardware, including loss of use of such devices and/or loss of profits from the resulting inability to use such devices. Any information you choose to put into use from this video is done AT YOUR OWN RISK. ALWAYS discharge static from your body before handling computer components, and ensure that the power current has been completely disconnected from a PC before working inside its case.

This video will show you the inside-case motherboard component configuration of a typical parallel ATA IDE ribbon cable personal computer versus that of a modern serial ATA SATA connector PC. This video gives overviews of components such as ATX power supplies, CPU processors with heatsinks and fans, RAM modules (DDR3 and SDRAM), video graphics accelerator cards (AGP and PCI-Express), CMOS button cell batteries, case connector clusters, PCI slots, ISA slots, as well as where all of these components are placed and how to identify them on sight.

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