Download or read book Repairing and Upgrading Your PC written by Robert Bruce Thompson and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most computer users think that fiddling with the insides of their PC is taboo. They fear that by removing the screws that hold the case on, they're crossing into forbidden territory. And even for those who know they can open the box and fix or upgrade their PC, analysis paralysis often stops them in their tracks: Which upgrades offer the best bang for the buck? How do you pinpoint the faulty component that's making your system freeze? What about compatibility issues? Get ready to get unstuck and get your PC running fast and running right. Repairing and Upgrading Your PC delivers start-to-finish instructions, simple enough for even the most inexperienced PC owner, for troubleshooting, repairing, and upgrading your computer. Written by hardware experts Robert Bruce Thompson and Barbara Fritchman Thompson, this book covers it all: how to troubleshoot a troublesome PC, how to identify which components make sense for an upgrade, and how to tear it all down and put it back together. This book shows how to repair and upgrade all of your PC's essential components: Motherboard, CPU, and Memory. Choose the optimal match of these core components to keep your PC running at top speed Hard Drive, Optical Drive, and Removable Storage Give your computer what it needs for long-term and short-term storage Audio and Video. Enhance your computing experience with the right sound and graphics devices for your needs Input Devices. Pick the best keyboard and mouse to keep your hands happy and healthy Networking. Set up secure wireless networking to keep the bits flowing between your computers and the outside world Cases and Power Supplies. Keep everything running cool and reliably With its straightforward language, clear instructions, and extensive illustrations, this book makes it a breeze for PC owners of any skill level to work on their computer.
Download or read book Managing and Maintaining Your PC written by Jean Andrews and published by Delmar. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 1287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by best-selling PC repair author and educator Jean Andrews, the seventh edition of A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, International Edition maps fully to CompTIA’s 2009 A+ Exam objectives. This full-color guide is the most complete, step-by-step book available for learning the fundamentals of supporting and troubleshooting computer hardware and software. At the same time, it prepares readers to successfully pass the A+ 220-701 and 220-702 exams. The new edition is formatted to support any teaching style and course format, featuring an essentials-to-practical reorganization within each chapter and inclusion of new tabs distinguishing exam content. Further content and live demonstrations with Jean Andrews are available on the accompanying CD, making this new edition a total solution for PC repair.
Download or read book Upgrading and Maintaining Your PC written by Ulrich Schueller and published by Abacus Software. This book was released on 1996 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With current information on the newest technology, this book starts by helping readers make informed purchasing decisions. Clear and easy-to-understand instructions with numerous photos guide you through today's most common upgrades and repairs. From the fastest processors and clock-doublers to the most modern multimedia components or simply replacing your battery, this book covers it all.
Download or read book The Complete PC Upgrade and Maintenance Guide written by Mark Minasi and published by Sybex. This book was released on 2005-07-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clear, Expert Advice for PC Users of Every Stripe No matter how you use your PC--as a business tool, an entertainment center, or an Internet on-ramp--this latest edition of The Complete PC Upgrade & Maintenance Guide has you covered. Inside, you'll find the clear, expert advice on maintaining, upgrading, and troubleshooting for which this book is famous. It's all updated to cover the latest technologies and guaranteed to help you extend the life and power of your PC. You also get targeted instruction on a wide range of entertainment upgrades--ways to enhance your enjoyment of music, photo, movies, and more. Coverage includes: * Preventing hardware disasters * Upgrading memory * Replacing power supplies * Partitioning drives using NTFS and FAT32 * Solving data backup challenges * Protecting your PC from viruses, worms, and spyware * Adding SCSI cards and drives * Installing DVDs, CD-ROMs, and EIDE and Serial ATA hard drives * Troubleshooting printers and scanners * Installing communications devices * Resolving mouse and keyboard problems * Installing video and sound cards * Tackling networking issues, both wired and wireless * Troubleshooting Internet connectivity * Solving laptop problems * Capturing and editing video * Managing music and image files * Watching movies on DVD * Getting the most out of new storage and networking technologies
Download or read book Upgrading Maintaining Your PC written by Ulrich Schueller and published by Abacus Software. This book was released on 1994 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in a style that's easy to follow for even novice "tinkerers", this book is a valuable warehouse of information on the many opportunities for upgrading and maintaining personal computers. With all its new information, this third edition will be invaluable for newcomers.
Download or read book PCs For Dummies written by Dan Gookin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The all-time bestselling PC reference, fully updated for the newest technologies! Previous editions of this fun and friendly PC guide have sold more than three million copies, making it the bestselling PC reference in the world. Dan Gookin, the author whose straightforward and entertaining style is the foundation of the For Dummies series, gives you the same easy-to-follow guidance in this edition, fully updated for Windows 8, using the cloud, and all the newest PC bells and whistles. It's perfect for the absolute beginner as well as for anyone switching to the latest hardware and software. Updated with information on all the latest upgrades, this edition of a worldwide bestseller covers all the essentials of using a PC, and presents them in a fun, non-intimidating style Popular technology author Dan Gookin starts at the beginning with all the basics that other books assume everyone knows Covers setting up your PC, exploring the Windows 8 interface, using network hardware and software, getting online and browsing with the newest version of Internet Explorer, setting up an e-mail account, connecting to the cloud, and using cloud-based services Shows you how to install and upgrade programs and manage files and folders Explores working with digital photos, downloading music, watching movies, and participating in social media PCs For Dummies, 12th Edition is the jargon-free, easy-to-use guide to everything you need to know about your PC.
Download or read book Upgrading and Repairing PCs written by Scott Mueller and published by Que Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the newest comprehensive update to the world's #1 guide to PC repair and maintenance. World-renowned PC hardware expert Scott Mueller has thoroughly updated his legendary "Upgrading and Repairing PCs to reflect today's latest PC technologies, and added a new DVD with more than two hours of digital video demonstrating PC maintenance and repair, which can be watched on either their DVD-equipped PCs or any DVD player. Mueller presents updated coverage of every significant PC component: processors, motherboards, memory, the BIOS, IDE and SCSI interfaces, drives, removable and optical storage, video and audio hardware, USB, FireWire, Internet connectivity, LANs, power supplies, even PC cases. This book also contains a detailed troubleshooting index designed to help readers rapidly diagnose more than 250 common PC hardware problems, as well as an extensive vendor contact guide, and a comprehensive PC technical glossary.
Download or read book Upgrading and Maintaining Your PC written by Guido Roehrig and published by Grand Rapids, MI : Abacus. This book was released on 1990 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete guide to expanding your PC. Teaches how to turn your PC into a high performance machine. Whether you want to add a hard drive, increase memory, upgrade to a higher resolution monitor, or into a fast AT or 386, you'll see how to do it easily and economically, without having to be an electronics wizard.
Download or read book The Complete PC Upgrade Maintenance Lab Manual written by Richard Mansfield and published by Sybex. This book was released on 2000 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Lab Manual" is a workbook for students taking college and training school classes in computer upgrade, maintenance and repair. It reinforces lessons with practical, hands-on tasks. Each exercise provides students with recommended readings, objectives, lists of hardware and software to perform tasks, step-by-step procedures for completing lab work, and student lab report.
Download or read book Haynes Computer Manual written by Kyle MacRae and published by Haynes Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This full-colour manual shows how easy it is to upgrade, maintain and repair a PC. From adding more memory to installing a DVD drive, it takes the reader through each stage using plain English and clear photographs. Designed to be of use for the small business, student or home user, the jargon-free manual should save time and money and give readers a basic understanding of all areas of computer hardware and installation without blinding them with science.
Download or read book Troubleshooting and Maintaining Your PC All in One Desk Reference For Dummies written by Dan Gookin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-03-09 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maintaining a PC is important, and troubleshooting a PC can be a challenge. Dan Gookin is great at explaining how to handle common PC problems, and he’s provided a complete, plain-English manual in Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All-in-One For Dummies. Liberally laced with Dan’s famous humor and clear instructions, Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All-in-One For Dummies is divided into six minibooks covering hardware, software, laptops, Internet, networking, and maintenance. Each one gives you some background on what causes common problems, to help you understand what’s wrong as well as how to fix it. You’ll learn to: Troubleshoot both Windows XP and Vista Solve e-mail and Web woes, makes friends with ActiveX, and protect your system from evil software and viruses Resolve router problems, reset the modem, delve into IP addresses, and find the elusive wireless network Investigate startup issues, battery quirks, and power problems Travel safely and efficiently with your laptop Perform regular maintenance and keep good backups Solve problems with disks and printers Find missing files, successfully restore files if something major goes wrong, and pep up your PC The bonus DVD walks you through some of the complex steps discussed in the book and demonstrates tasks like removing a hard drive. There’s a great collection of free and demo software, too. Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All-in-One For Dummies is tech support in a book! Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
Download or read book A Guide to Software written by Jean Andrews and published by Course Technology. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lab Manual for A+ GUIDE TO SOFTWARE: MANAGING, MAINTAINING, AND TROUBLESHOOTING, 4th Edition, is a valuable tool designed to enhance your classroom experience. Lab activities, objectives, materials lists, step-by-step procedures, illustrations, review questions and more are all included.
Download or read book Enhanced Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC written by Jean Andrews and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In keeping with the success of the third edition, "Enhanced Guide to Managing & Maintaining Your PC has been updated to include the most current technology. With a new chapter on Windows 2000 and coverage on the Linux operating system, this title thoroughly covers the most up-to-date topics in the PC Repair industry. This book helps computer users gain skills required to support and repair their own PC and also covers how a computer works, and how to maintain, troubleshoot, upgrade and repair a PC. This title also serves as an excellent resource for those interested in PC Repair and/or A+ certification.
Download or read book The Complete PC Upgrade and Maintenance Guide written by Mark Minasi and published by Sybex. This book was released on 2004-03-09 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World's Leading PC Guide--Updated, Expanded, Reorganized The Complete PC Upgrade and Maintenance Guide continues its reign as the PC world's great problem-solving wonder. In simple, easy-to-follow language, it shows you how to prevent disasters, fix the ones that occur, and maximize your PC's power and longevity. Based on author Mark Minasi's popular seminars, this book is an unbeatable value. It teaches you everything you need to know to meet all your PC challenges, present and future. Coverage includes: * Preventing hardware disasters * Upgrading memory * Replacing power supplies * Installing EIDE and Serial ATA hard drives * Adding SCSI ports * Partitioning drives using NTFS and FAT32 * Protecting your PC from viruses, worms, and spyware * Solving data backup challenges * Adding and repairing DVDs and CD-ROMs * Installing and troubleshooting scanners * Troubleshooting printers * Installing communications devices * Resolving mouse and keyboard problems * Installing video and sound cards * Tackling networking issues * Installing a wireless network * Troubleshooting Internet connectivity * Solving laptop problems
Download or read book Troubleshooting Maintaining Your PC All in One For Dummies written by Dan Gookin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stop being a prisoner to your PC! Need a PC problem fixed in a pinch? Presto! Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All-in-One For Dummies offers 5 books in 1 and takes the pain out of wading through those incomprehensible manuals, or waiting for a high-priced geek to show up days or weeks after you need them. Arming you with everything you need to get that pesky PC working for you ASAP, this handy guide walks you through all the steps to restoring whatever's making your PC go rogue —so you can get back to making it work for you. There's nothing worse than firing up your PC only to discover it's inexplicably unresponsive. With this guide, you'll gain all the skills and insight you need to need to bring it back to life —and to prevent it from ever leaving you in the lurch again. Find out what's behind common PC problems Solve email and web woes, both big and small Perform regular maintenance and get serious about backups Troubleshoot to find solutions to your issues and learn proper maintenance to head off future headaches! Your PC problems aren't as big as you think! Take matters into your own hands with the helpful instruction provided inside this book!
Download or read book Upgrading and Repairing PCs written by Mueller Scott and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Upgrading and Repairing PCs written by Que and published by Que Publishing. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A+ certification is the most popular certification program in the world, certifying more than 500,000 individuals since its inception in 1998. The two A+ exams certify your knowledge of basic computer hardware and operating systems. This certification is extremely popular because it is essential to anybody who requires a baseline set of skills or competencies: high school students, technicians in your company's IT support group, even those who are exploring IT careers. The A+ Training Guide provides focused, in-depth coverage of all the exam objectives, giving readers the ultimate study tool. Whether you're in need of supplementary study material or a hands-on guide for your shop, the best-selling Upgrading and Repairing PCs book completes this package. This book is found on the desks of teachers, students, hobbyists, repair technicians, and IT professionals. Maximum PC, the PC hardware industry's leading magazine has dubbed this guide the "most comprehensive book on the subject we've ever seen." World-renowned PC hardware expert Scott Mueller has taught thousands in his weeklong seminars and millions through his books, videos, and articles.
