Newnes PC Troubleshooting Pocket Book
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Newnes PC Troubleshooting Pocket Book

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Newnes PC Troubleshooting Pocket Book

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About This Book

Newnes PC Troubleshooting Pocket Book provides a concise and compact reference that describes, in a clear and straightforward manner, the principles and practice of faultfinding and upgrading PCs and peripherals. The strong practical emphasis is backed up with many illustrations and examples of real-lie problems. The book is aimed at anyone who is involved with the installation, configuration, maintenance, upgrading, repair or support of PC systems. It also provides non-technical users with sufficient background information, charts and checklists to enable the diagnosis of faults and help to carry out simple modifications and repairs. The new edition of PC Troubleshooting will continue to include a number of short cuts that are instrumental in avoiding hours of potential frustration and costly effort. In order to reflect rapid changes in computer technology (both hardware and software) this new edition has been completely revised and rewritten. New and expanded sections on: modern machines (Pentium II, III, IV, AMD); modern buses (FSB, AGP, Cyrix, Chip sets); different RAM chip types and connectors; Win 2000, ME, XP; latest SCSI standards, Ultra DMA, "live" re-partitioning of the disc, FAT16, FAT36, NTFS, performance and compatibility differences; 'famous' viruses and personal firewalls.

  • All the essential data for PC fault-finding and upgrading
  • Ideal for systems support staff, businesses, students, teachers, and home PC users
  • Strong practical emphasis is backed up with many illustrations and examples of real problems

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Publisher
Newnes
Year
2003
ISBN
9780080497464
Edition
3
Topic
Informatica
Subtopic
Hardware

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Newnes PC Troubleshooting Pocket Book
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Chapter 1. Introduction
  7. Chapter 2. The Internet
  8. Chapter 3. Microcomputer fundamentals
  9. Chapter 4. System architecture and construction
  10. Chapter 5. The PC expansion buses
  11. Chapter 6. Semiconductor memory
  12. Chapter 7. Printers and the printer interface
  13. Chapter 8. The serial communication ports
  14. Chapter 9. Replaceable disk drives
  15. Chapter 10. Hard disk drives
  16. Chapter 11. Displays
  17. Chapter 12. Viruses
  18. Chapter 13. Troubleshooting Windows error messages
  19. Chapter 14. Troubleshooting Windows Registry
  20. Appendix A. Common file extensions
  21. Appendix B. The Command Prompt and DOS
  22. Appendix C. Using batch files
  23. Appendix D. Using DEBUG
  24. Appendix E. Hex, binary, decimal and ASCII character set
  25. Appendix F. IBM POST and diagnostic error codes
  26. Appendix G. Reference section and glossary of terms
  27. Appendix H. Useful websites
  28. Appendix I. Processor types, sockets and families
  29. Index