At the workbench
PC hardware maintenance & Cisco console practice
Selected photographs from hands-on coursework, organized by the task and component shown.
PC hardware & thermal maintenance
Component inspection, processor handling, thermal compound and cooling assembly work. These photos document the maintenance stages shown; they do not establish benchmark or temperature results.
Open chassis, heatsink and an ESD wrist strap during hardware coursework.
The removed processor showing the existing thermal compound.
The exposed socket during processor removal and inspection.
The processor seated in its socket with thermal compound applied.
Heatsink and air duct positioned back inside the desktop chassis.
Cisco configuration state
A router console reports that no startup configuration is present. This documents a configuration-state check in a lab, not a complete network deployment.