Troubleshooting Repairing Personal Computers

The Y2K bug can wreak havoc on the healthiest PC, so be prepared for the millennium glitch, and virtually any other computer foulup ù with Stephen Bigelow's massive Troubleshooting, Maintaining & Repairing PCs, Millennium Edition. Ideal for both technicians and power users, the latest edition of this bestselling guide gives you the tools and know-how to diagnose and fix 2,000 PC problems from Y2K mishaps to crashed hard drives to blank monitor screens and much more quickly, easily, and with total cconfidence. It's jam-packed with 1,600 pages of the most experienced hands-on help you can find for resuscitating most any PC or peripheral: 8-bit to 64-bit CPUs...memory...destops, towers, and notebooks...keyboards...printers...monitors...mice... modems...PC cards...motherboards...video and sound boards...you name it! You also get a "Symptoms-at-a-Glance" section that demystifies hundreds of common PC malfunctions...scores of POST and diagnostic codes to help you idenify the most obscure flaws...helpful Web site listings for instant online assistance...even a challenging Technician's Examination that serves as a perfect tune-up for CompTIA's career-boosting A+ Certification exam. BIG BONUS! Over 150 hand-picked shareware PC diagnostics and utilities on CD-ROM plus PC technician's primer ù to help you set up your workbench.

Offers a Hands-on Troubleshooting, Servicing, & Repair Guide

Offers a Hands-on Troubleshooting, Servicing, & Repair Guide

For anyone who owns a computer, this guide puts at their fingertips simple strategies for the maintenance, troubleshooting, repair, and upgrading of their IBM PCs, XTs, ATs, and clones. Readers will be able to prolong the life of their computer as well as save money on repairs, lost data, and down time with the help of the book's foolproof, step-by-step instructions.

One of the strongest-selling technician's guides to PC repair, this well-illustrated volume is now revised to place greater emphasis on Windows-related PCs, which present a unique set of system-specific troubleshooting and repair challenges. The author provides simnple, ste-by-step strategies for keeping IBM pCs and compatible 286, 386, 486, and Pentium systems up and running. 325 illustrations.