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by Scott Mueller (Author)

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Paperback: 1632 pages
Publisher: QUE; 14 edition (4 Sep 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.co.uk Sales Rank: 556,071 in Books (See Bestsellers 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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The PC Hardware Bible, 18 Mar 2003

By	Mike (Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Everything you could possibly want to know about PCs, 20 Jun 2003

By	W. Smith "smithbill" (Edinburgh, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sound Card & CD Rom, 2 Nov 2002

By	Albert (Zimbabwe) - See all my reviews

I do remember these titles, when l borrowed this book from a friend of mine who visited to our country from UK. I had a problem with my sound card there was no sound coming from PC. It happened she had the book in her possesion and recommend me to use it, if it could help me. Surely it help me a lot of my PC problems which I was expriencing, it actually take you step by step showing areas to look at and with illustration of diagrams. Furthermore l learn also how l can improve my pc systems perfomance. Only unfortunate part I had to return it to the owner, it was due. Its' very helpful book , it does not have these complicated words. It much concerate on the aspect of hardware side than these sophsticated software language. More like Do It Yourself. it in powers the user to know your PC better. Especially on how to install a CD rom unit, it made a great for me, even l went to read further the manual it was much understandable.
I do wish if could have me like that..

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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. Read more

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