- Paperback: 1632 pages
- Publisher: QUE; 14 edition (27 Aug 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0789727455
- ISBN-13: 978-0789727459
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 18.8 x 6.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,080,467 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is the newest comprehensive update to the world's #1 guide to PC repair and maintenance. World-renowned PC hardware expert Scott Mueller has thoroughly updated his legendary Upgrading and Repairing PCs to reflect today's latest PC technologies, and added a new DVD with more than two hours of digital video demonstrating PC maintenance and repair, which can be watched on either their DVD-equipped PCs or any DVD player. Mueller presents updated coverage of every significant PC component: processors, motherboards, memory, the BIOS, IDE and SCSI interfaces, drives, removable and optical storage, video and audio hardware, USB, FireWire, Internet connectivity, LANs, power supplies, even PC cases. This book also contains a detailed troubleshooting index designed to help readers rapidly diagnose more than 250 common PC hardware problems, as well as an extensive vendor contact guide, and a comprehensive PC technical glossary.
About the Author
Scott Mueller is president of Mueller Technical Research, an international research and corporate training firm. Since 1982, MTR has specialized in the industry's most in-depth, accurate, and effective corporate PC hardware and technical training seminars, maintaining a client list that includes Fortune 500 companies, the U.S. and foreign governments, major software and hardware corporations, as well as PC enthusiasts and entrepreneurs. His seminars have been presented to several thousands of PC support professionals throughout the world.
Scott has developed and presented training courses in all areas of PC hardware and software. He is an expert in PC hardware, operating systems, and data-recovery techniques. He currently spends about 20-25 weeks per year on the road teaching his seminars at several corporate clients. For more information about a custom PC hardware or data-recovery training seminar for your organization, contact Lynn at
Mueller Technical Research
21 Spring Lane
Barrington Hills, IL 60010-9009
847-854-6794
847-854-6795 Fax
Internet: scottmueller@compuserve.com
Web: http://www.upgradingandrepairingpcs.com or http://www.m-tr.com
Scott has many popular books, articles, and course materials to his credit, including Upgrading and Repairing PCs, which has sold more than 2 million copies, making it by far the most popular PC hardware book on the market today.
Scott has recently completed two new works, Upgrading and Repairing Laptops and Upgrading and Repairing PCs Video Training Course, and is hard at work on Upgrading and Repairing Servers, also a new, first-of-its-kind book.
If you have suggestions for the next version of the book, or any comments about the book in general, send them to Scott via email at scottmueller@compuserve.com or visit www.upgradingandrepairingpcs.com and click the Ask Scott button.
When he is not working on PC-related books or on the road teaching seminars, Scott can usually be found in the garage working on several projects. This year he is upgrading an '03 Harley FLHRCI Road King Classic, which is slated to receive a 103ci Twin-Cam stroker motor along with numerous other modifications (see you in Sturgis
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book contains just about everything you're ever going to need to know about PC hardware. I was about to start building my own PC to link to my current one and start a home network when I stumbled across this. It changed my mind about a few details that I had in mind about designing the new computer and answered many questions along the way - in addition to that, I found myself reading more as it is very informative and written in a relaxed way that lends itself to further investigation.
The chapters cover all the main components of a PC - processor, memory, hard drives, optical drives, BIOS, motherboards, power supplies etc... and there is a very useful chapter on building your own computer. The glossary at the end is comprehensive to say the least, and provides information on the seemingly endless abbreviations used in the computer industry. I would regard myself as a very competent computer user - I've been using them for many years including IBM PC's, Macs and UNIX and a bit of programming here and there, I use computers every day at work and home, yet every time I need to find something out - whether for work, or just curiosity, this book always seems to have the answers, I can't praise it more - highly recommended.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is designed for PC engineers - its full of technical information and schematic diagrams covering ALL imaginable PC hardware. The text is very readable but if your new to PC internals then you would do better to look at other books (eg. Mike Meyers All-in-One A+ Study Guide).
The accompanying DVD contains PDF (Adobe Acrobat) versions of previous editions of the book which are easy to search through and also approx. 1hour of DVD video presented by Scott Mueller himself. He's not the best of presenters and the 10 or so topics presented seem an odd combination but quite informative (i enjoyed watching him 'fry' an AMD Athlon CPU!)
Its a BIG book containing BIG information. The field guide is much smaller but quite comprehensive too.
Format:Paperback
Hello,
This book only give a superficial and incomplete referece. For exemple, the extern ms-dos command fdisk not has the options /mbr and /cmbr 1. Not has any c+/pascal/basic code to check any computer part-hardware and don't included any software (free, shareware and demo).
I am only can say that I am enjoy see again old CPU and another museum's hardware.
Sincerely
This book only give a superficial and incomplete referece. For exemple, the extern ms-dos command fdisk not has the options /mbr and /cmbr 1. Not has any c+/pascal/basic code to check any computer part-hardware and don't included any software (free, shareware and demo).
I am only can say that I am enjoy see again old CPU and another museum's hardware.
Sincerely
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