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 |
Audio Hardware | 16 |
PC Components Features | 25 |
PrePC Microprocessor History | 38 |
Internal Registers Internal Data Bus | 47 |
Processor Speeds and Markings Versus | 54 |
Overclocking | 61 |
P1 086 FirstGeneration Processors | 114 |
Mastering | 794 |
Physical Drive Installation and Configuration | 797 |
Video Hardware | 835 |
Video Display Technologies | 836 |
Monitor Selection Criteria | 845 |
Maintaining Your Monitor | 858 |
3D Graphics Accelerators | 880 |
Adapter Memory Configuration | 883 |
P5 586 FifthGeneration Processors | 128 |
Intel P6 686 SixthGeneration | 138 |
Pentium IIIII Xeon | 162 |
Motherboards and Buses | 195 |
SeventhGeneration Pentium 4 Chipsets | 271 |
Intel Workstation Chipsets for Pentium 4 | 301 |
System Bus Types Functions | 308 |
BIOS | 359 |
BIOS Basics | 366 |
Upgrading the BIOS | 384 |
Boot Menu Boot Sequence Order | 409 |
Messages | 416 |
Memory | 422 |
Organization | 457 |
Installing RAM Upgrades | 471 |
The ATAIDE Interface | 497 |
An Overview of the IDE Interface | 498 |
ATA Features | 508 |
Drive Capacity Limitations | 517 |
DMA Transfer Modes | 534 |
ATA RAID | 541 |
The SCSI Interface | 545 |
The System Logical Memory Layout 481 | 552 |
SCSI Drive Configuration | 567 |
Magnetic Storage Principles | 579 |
Hard Disk Storage | 601 |
Floppy Disk Storage | 643 |
Caring for and Handling Floppy Disks | 660 |
HighCapacity Removable Storage | 663 |
Flash Memory Devices | 672 |
Comparing Tape Backup Technologies | 689 |
Tape Retensioning | 696 |
Optical Storage | 697 |
Upgrading or Replacing Your Video Card | 892 |
Adapter and Display Troubleshooting | 900 |
Audio Hardware | 919 |
Audio Adapter Concepts and Terms | 922 |
3D Audio | 930 |
Speakers | 939 |
Introduction to InputOutput Ports | 946 |
Comparing IEEE1394 and USB | 960 |
HighSpeed Serial Port Cards | 967 |
Input Devices | 979 |
Num Lock | 985 |
Keyboard Troubleshooting and Repair | 997 |
Mouse and Pointing Stick | 1013 |
Wireless Pointing Device Issues | 1020 |
Internet Connectivity | 1037 |
Diagnosing Connection Problems with | 1069 |
Local Area Networking | 1073 |
Wireless Network Logical Topologies | 1109 |
UTP Solutions | 1115 |
Tips and Tricks | 1121 |
Power Supply and ChassisCase | 1125 |
Power Supply Form Factors | 1129 |
Dell Proprietary Nonstandard | 1145 |
Physical Connector Part Numbers | 1152 |
RTCNVRAM CMOS RAM Batteries | 1181 |
Building or Upgrading Systems | 1183 |
PC Diagnostics Testing and Maintenance | 1229 |
Audio Hardware 1200 Soldering and Desoldering Tools | 1259 |
Hardware and Software Resources 1202 Special Tools for the Enthusiast | 1265 |
File Systems and Data Recovery | 1299 |
Appendixes | 1369 |
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Common terms and phrases
AGP 4x architecture ATA drives Athlon XP audio backup BIOS Setup boot 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 specification standard storage Super I/O Table tape track transfer rate typical upgrade vendors 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 |