Hardware Testing Instructor Responsibilities

Advanced Testing Tasks

• Hard Drive Testing
• External Hard Drive Enclosure Testing
• Optical Drive Testing
• External Optical Drive Testing
• RAM Testing
• Motherboard Testing
• Processors
• Video Card Testing
• Network Testing
• Wireless Keyboard & Mice
• Cell Phones
• Bluetooth Headset Testing
• Wireless Cards - PCI and laptop PC Bus

Volunteer Inventory

• Don't forget to say hello to everyone and introduce yourself to new folks.
• Which volunteers are present during your shift? What are their strengths and weaknesses? Do they want to learn something new?
• Appropriately engage each volunteer in an appropriate task, trying to get all tasks covered.
• Thank volunteers for their work as they leave.

Hard Drive Testing

• Pull and label all tested hard drives. Recycle the failed ones.
• Stock all the machines.
• Repair failed machines as necessary.
• REPORT PROBLEMS WITH MACHINES WHEN THEY HAPPEN (either to those with the know-how to fix 'em or on the AT mailing list)

Sort Incoming Network Stuff

• Match up wall warts with incoming network gizmos.
• Sort incoming wall warts.
• If a particular sorted wall wart container is overflowing, cull the off-brand wall warts (use your judgment).

Task Status

• Is a particular, overflowing task not being covered by a volunteer?

Hard Drive Testing is SUPER IMPORTANT. Your goal is to keep TARDIS as free of unwiped hard drives as you can.