Take-It-Apart Patty Had Some Experience in Troubleshooting Her PC

question 101

Multiple Choice

Take-it-apart Patty had some experience in troubleshooting her PC. One day she decided to take the next big step by completely disassembling her computer. When she reassembled it and turned the computer on, she heard nothing, smelled nothing, and saw nothing. Poor, Patty! She did something wrong! Look at the following choices and select the one that would have most likely caused the problem.

• A) Pin 1 on the hard disk drive ribbon cable was plugged into the motherboard in the wrong direction.
• B) Patty forgot to connect the power supply to the motherboard.
• C) Patty plugged the mouse into the keyboard connector.
• D) Patty put the internal modem in the wrong expansion slot.
• E) Patty forgot to plug the power cord into the computer.