Troubleshooting, Maintaining, and Repairing PCs: A Technician's Guide, 2/e - Hardcover

Stephen J. Bigelow

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0079137334 ISBN 13: 9780079137333

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies

Synopsis

Troubleshooting, Maintaining, and Repairing PCs will be the most comprehensive maintenance, configuration, and repair guide for IBM PCs, compatibles, and portables (and their peripherals). It will provide all levels of computer service personnel with a complete guide to computer service and repair by explaining the common failures of each major computer subsection and peripheral, then providing practical, realistic solutions to such problems.

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From the Back Cover

With over 3 times as many PC symptoms and solutions than before, here's the most comprehensive, hands-on guide to PC repair, maintenance and troubleshooting ever! Highlighted by 10 new chapters and 5 new appendices, this thoroughly updated and expanded edition of the best-selling Troubleshooting, Maintaining, and Repairing Personal Computers is your total guide to PC problem-solving. Equally useful to technicians, enthusiasts, and PC students, this mammoth resource reviews the fundamentals of PCs and peripherals and features: a unique, alphabetized "Symptoms at a Glance" section stocked with fully explained solutions to over 1,300 PC problems--900 more than before! New CD-ROM full of shareware and freeware diagnostics and utilities that help you pinpoint the peskiest PC problems. Newly reorganized material that makes locating beep, POST, and diagnostic codes much easier. Fully revised DLS Technician's Certificate II test that also serves an ideal prep for the A+ and ETA certification exams. New Web addresses in all 73 chapters, which offer extra details, self-study aid, and news on manufacturers and organizations. An opportunity to get ongoing troubleshooting, help via a subscription to The PC Toolbox newsletter. Including new guidance on PC standards, new information on PC newsgroups, Windows 95 shortcuts, and a variety of forms you can photocopy, the Second Edition is your quick and dependable cure for every PC ailment.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• ISBN 10: 0079137334
• ISBN 13: 9780079137333
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 1692