Troubleshooting Your PC (3rd Edition)

Aspinwall, Jim

ISBN 10: 1558284931 / ISBN 13: 9781558284937

Published by I D G Books Worldwide, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Troubleshooting Your PC (3rd Edition)
• Publisher: I D G Books Worldwide
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1558284931
• ISBN 13: 9781558284937
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Troubleshooting Your PC, 3rd Edition is loaded with details about "do-it-yourself" repair including tips and hints for protecting and recovering files and programs. PC upgrade and repair experts Jim Aspinwall and Mike Todd also explain how to maintain PC operating systems, hardware, and software. The book's Problem Index helps readers to identify problems and probable solutions All of the information contained in Troubleshooting Your PC, 3rd Edition applies to Windows 95, Windows NT, Plug-n-Play, and the Internet. Plus, the bonus CD-ROM contains multimedia presentations and diagnostic software.

Review

An unfortunately large percentage of the population regards repairing a personal computer as comparable in difficulty to fixing a Boeing 747. The truth is, it's not nearly that hard--anyone can debug the components that make up a modern PC. Troubleshooting Your PC makes the task easier by providing readers with information on the systems that make up an IBM-compatible microcomputer.

This book excels at providing background information on various kinds of components. It also does a fine job of decrypting acronyms and explaining how different subsystems relate to one another. The authors attack systems--such as the video system, disk drives, and serial devices--individually, listing symptoms, likely causes, and potential fixes for each. Unfortunately, they don't outline solutions in much detail: they advise replacing your hard drive in certain situations, for example, but don't adequately describe how.

Some of the information in these pages seems stale--there's no explicit explanation of how to install RAM modules, and there's no mention at all of modern PC-100 RAM. Similarly, the authors neglect not only the Intel Pentium III but also the well-established Celeron and Xeon chips. It's as if they updated an old edition of this book a little too cursorily. A companion CD-ROM includes a collection of software, plus an evaluation version of Symantec Norton Utilities 3.0. --David Wall