Upgrading and Repairing PCsUpgrading and Repairing PCs is the runaway best-selling PC hardware book of all time and one of the best-selling computer books ever! This 15th Edition is loaded with the most up-to-date hardware information anywhere. World-renowned PC hardware expert Scott Mueller has taught thousands in his weeklong seminars and millions through his books, videos and articles. This edition contains hundreds of pages of new material, including the latest in processor and motherboard technologies. The DVD offers you more than two hours of high quality video plus a searchable hard drive database, a searchable vendor database, and thousands of pages of legacy PC hardware coverage that can no longer be included in the printed book, but that are invaluable to PC techs servicing older computers! |
Contents
Contents | 1 |
August 2003 Team Coordinator | 6 |
Audio Hardware | 16 |
P1 086 FirstGeneration Processors | 114 |
Pentium OverDrive for 486SX2 and | 126 |
Pentium Defects | 135 |
Pentium IIIII Xeon | 162 |
FifthGeneration P5 Pentium Class | 237 |
Other Floppy Drive Types | 658 |
HighCapacity Removable | 663 |
Construction and Technology | 714 |
Capacity Sides and Layers | 720 |
681 | 756 |
Physical Drive Installation | 797 |
External SCSI Drive Hookup | 828 |
Video Display Technologies | 836 |
Intel 440ZX and 440ZX66 | 249 |
and 820E | 257 |
SeventhGeneration Pentium 4 Chipsets | 271 |
ThirdParty Pentium 4 Chipsets | 277 |
AthlonDuronAthlon XP Chipsets | 285 |
Intel Workstation Chipsets for Pentium 4 | 301 |
BIOS | 359 |
BIOS Basics | 366 |
Upgrading the BIOS | 384 |
Motherboard CMOS RAM Addresses | 392 |
Memory | 422 |
SDRAM | 433 |
Memory Modules | 440 |
SIMM Pinouts | 447 |
DDR2 DIMM Pinouts | 453 |
Memory Banks | 460 |
Installing RAM Upgrades | 471 |
Troubleshooting Memory | 477 |
The SCSI Interface | 545 |
SPI3 or Ultra3 SCSI Ultra160 | 555 |
Magnetic Storage Principles | 579 |
Hard Disk Drive Operation | 603 |
Basic Hard Disk Drive Components | 614 |
Hard Disk Features | 631 |
Floppy Disk Storage | 643 |
Monitor Selection Criteria | 845 |
Maintaining Your Monitor | 858 |
3D Graphics Accelerators | 880 |
Adapter and Display Troubleshooting | 900 |
Audio Adapter Concepts and Terms | 922 |
3D Audio Processing | 931 |
Speakers | 939 |
Introduction to InputOutput Ports | 946 |
Comparing IEEE1394 and USB | 960 |
HighSpeed Serial Port Cards | 967 |
Input Devices | 979 |
Wireless Input Devices | 1017 |
Internet Connectivity | 1023 |
Internet Connectivity via Satellite with | 1037 |
Local Area Networking | 1073 |
Hardware Elements of Your Network | 1081 |
Power Supply | 1125 |
Physical Connector Part Numbers | 1152 |
Using Digital Multimeters | 1168 |
ChassisCase | 1174 |
Primary Function and Operation 1126 | 1181 |
International Sales Software Development | 1295 |
Mastering | 1440 |
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Common terms and phrases
architecture ATA drives Athlon XP audio backup BIOS Setup boot Bridge chips bytes cable CD-R CD-ROM drives CD-RW Celeron chipset clock configuration connector controller Data Bit DDR SDRAM designed devices DIMM disc display DVD+RW enables faster FC-PGA Figure floppy disk form factor format graphics hard disk drive hard drive hardware heads heatsink host adapter installed integrated Intel interface Itanium jumper L2 cache magnetic manufacturers memory mode module monitor motherboard newer operating system options parity partition Pentium Pentium II Pentium Pro performance pins plug port problems RDRAM SCSI SDRAM sectors Serial ATA signal slot Socket South Bridge specification standard storage Super I/O Table tape track transfer rate typical upgrade versions video card voltage Windows Windows 98
References to this book
The Greenwood Dictionary of Education John William Collins,Nancy P. O'Brien No preview available - 2003 |