Sooner or later, most PC users find themselves confronted with hardware or software failure or the need to upgrade or optimise a system for some new application. Newnes PC Troubleshooting Pocket Book provides a concise and compact reference which describe in a clear and straightforward manner the principles and practice of fault finding and upgrading PCs. This fully updated edition further explains how to diagnose more basic faults and carry out simple modifications and repairs. It is aimed at those who are involved with the installation, configuration, maintenance, upgrading, repair or support of PC systems and provides non-technical users with sufficient background information.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"A sound reference book."
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Elsevier Science & Technology
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100 line illustrations, index
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
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978-0-7506-3901-9 (9780750639019)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Mike Tooley is Vice Principal at Brooklands College in Surrey, England. He is responsible for the delivery of learning to over 10,000 Further and Higher Education students increasingly by flexible, open and on-line distance learning. Mike is the well-known author of a number of popular electronic and related text books, including widely adopted course texts for BTEC Higher National Engineering, AVCE Engineering and GNVQ Intermediate Engineering. Mike's hobbies include astronomy, amateur radio and electronic circuit design and construction.
Preface; Introduction; PC fundamentals; System architecture and construction; Processor types and families; Support devices; Semiconductor memory; The parallel printer interface; The serial communications ports; The PC expansion bus; Floppy disk drives; Hard disk drives; Viruses; Displays; DOS system configuration; Windows troubleshooting; Tools and test equipment; Reference section; Diagnostic software; Index.
