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Key Features and Benefits:
Features include:
- 30- to 60- second video clips highlighting key procedures
- An insert section providing a PC setup graphical reference
- 200 additional technical reference illustrations
Coverage includes:
- Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) - 4X and faster technologies
- Windows XP
- Universal Serial Bus (USB) - version 2.0
- FireWire (IEEE 1394) coverage
- Ultra- DMA/100 coverage, and drive capacity limits
- SCSI coverage including Ultra360 SCSI
- Information about Pentium 4, Itanium, Athlon, Duron, and other late- model processors
- Latest Intel, Via, and AMD 133MHz+ chipsets
- Video and 3D acceleration issues
- DirectX 8.x and later
- CD-R and CD-RW, DVD-ROM and DVD-RAM coverage
- Latest RAM types
- All new CD-ROM contains demo versions of the best commercial software utilities and tools, including programs from McAfee, Symantec, Power Quest, and others
Competition
Osborne Product Differentiation: Bigelow's primary disti nction from all other big PC repair manuals is that it's a no-nonsense troubleshooting reference. No other book provides the extensive list of symptoms and solutions (or the symptoms at a glance section).
List of contents
From the contents:
Ch. 1: An inside look at desktops and towers
Ch. 2: An inside look at monitors
Ch. 3: An inside look operating systems and the boot process
Ch. 4: Arranging the pre- service checkout
Ch. 5: Backup guide
Ch. 6: Batteries
Ch. 7: BIOS
Ch. 8: Busses
Ch. 9: CD- ROM, CD- R, and CD- RW drives
Ch. 10: Chipsets
Ch. 11: CMOS
Ch. 12: Conflict troubleshooting
Ch. 13: CPU identification and troubleshooting
Ch. 14: Data recovery techniques
Ch. 15: Drive adapters and RAID basics
Ch. 16: DVD drives
Ch. 17: Enhancing system performance
Ch. 18: Error codes
Ch. 19: Fans and cooling devices
Ch. 20: Floppy drives
Ch. 21: Hard drives
Ch. 22: Joysticks and game ports
Ch. 23: Keyboards
Ch. 24: Memory troubleshooting
Ch. 25: Mice and trackballs
Ch. 26: Modems and fax cards
Ch. 27: Monitor troubleshooting
Ch. 28: Motherboard troubleshooting
Ch. 29: Parallel port troubleshooting
Ch. 30: Plug- and- Play configuration and troubleshooting
Ch. 31: Power protection
About the author
Stephen J. Bigelow (Jefferson, MA) is the founder and president of Dynamic Learning System, a technical research and writing firm specialising in PC and peripheral service. An experienced electronics engineer, he is the author of several popular computer books and is also the series editor for "Bigelow's Pocket Reference Series" with more than 150,000 copies in print. The editor of The PC Toolbox newsletter and the author of more than 90 articles, Bigelow also teaches PC online courses at Ziff Davis University.
