Troubleshooting your PC bible /
Jim Aspinwall and Mike Todd
- 5th ed.
- Foster City, Calif. : IDG Books Worldwide, c2000
- l, 877 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + 1 electronic optical disc (CD-ROM) (4 3/4 in.)
New ed. of Troubleshooting your PC / Jim Aspinwall and Mike Todd. 4th ed. c1999.
Preface. - Acknowledgments. - Problem Index. - Pt. I: Getting Started. Ch. 1: Troubleshooting. Ch. 2: Tools of the Trade. Ch. 3: Protecting Yourself. Ch. 4: Your Personal Computer. Ch. 5: Physical Versus Logical Devices. - Pt. II: The Soft Side of Your PC. Ch. 6: Operating Systems, File Systems, and User Interfaces. Ch. 7.: DOS Parts. Ch. 8: Windows for Home and Deskto. Ch. 9: Windows for the Enterprise. Ch. 10: Networking. Ch. 11: The Internet. - Pt. III: The Hard Side of Your PC. Ch. 12: Power and Startup Problems. Ch.13: Configuration Problems. Ch. 14: System Boards. Ch. 15: System Memory. - Pt. IV: Disk Drives. Ch. 16 Disk Drive Basics. Ch. 17: Disk Drive Utilities and Diagnostics. Ch. 18: Hard Drives. Ch. 19: Diskette, CD-ROM, and other Drives. - Pt. V. Other Parts of Your PC. Ch. 20: Sights and Sounds. Ch. 21: Basic Input and Output. Ch. 22: Serial Input and Output. - Pt. VI: Maintaining Your PC. Ch. 23: Do It Yourself-With Confidence!. - Appendix A: Memory Maps and BIOS Data Areas. - Appendix B: Hardware Interrupt Requests and DMA Assignments. - Appendix C: Keyboard Codes and ASCII Chart. - Appendix D: Color Assignments and Video Modes Chart. - Appendix E: Hard Disk Drive Types (Standard, Extended, and Phoenix). - Appendix F: PC Error Codes, Beeps, and Diagnostic Messages. - Appendix G: Cabling Diagrams: Serial, Video, Keyboard, Parallel, Network and More. - Appendix H: Technical Support Trouble Report Data Form. - Appendix I: Favorite Links. - Appendix J: About the CD-ROM. - Glossary. - Index. - End-User License Agreement. - CD-ROM Installation Instructions.
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