With over 3 times as many PC symptoms and solutions than before, here's the most comprehensive, hands-on guide to PC repair, maintenance and troubleshooting ever!
Includes a new CD-ROM packed with diagnostic software!
Highlighted by 8 new chapters and 5 new appendices, this thoroughly updated and expanded edition of the best-selling Troubleshooting, Maintaining, and Repairing Personal Computers is your total guide to PC problem-solving.
Equally useful to technicians, enthusiasts, and PC students, this mammoth resource reviews the fundamentals of PCs and peripherals and feature:
- A unique, alphabetized "Symptoms at a Glance" section stocked with full explained solutions to over 1,200 PC problems- 800 more than before!
- New CD-ROM full of shareware and freeware diagnostics and utilities that help you pinpoint the peskiest PC problems.
- Newly reorganized material that makes locating beep, POST, and diagnostic codes much easier.
- Fully revised DLS Technician's Certificate ll test that also serves as an ideal prep for the A++ and ETA cerification exams.
- New Web addresses in all 49 chapters, which offer extra details, self-study aid, and news on manufacturers and organizations.
- An opportunity to get ongoing troubleshooting help via a subscription to the PC Toolbox newsletter.
Including new guidance on PC standards, new information on PC newsgroups, Windows 95 shortcuts, and a variety of forms you can photocopy, the new Second Edition is your quick and dependable cure for every PC ailment.
Chapter 1 Inside today's desktop and tower
Chapter 2 Inside today's monitors
Chapter 3 Operating systems and the boot process
Chapter 4 The pre-service checkout
Chapter 5 Batteries
Chapter 6 BIOS
Chapter 7 CD-ROM and CD-R drives
Chapter 8 Chipsets
Chapter 9 CMOS
Chapter 10 Conflict troubleshooting
etc.