Upgrading and repairing PCs - Scott Mueller

Appropriate for courses at all levels in PC maintenance and repair. While not an A+ certification guide, will also be an extremely valuable supplement for courses intended to prepare students for A+ certification.

Scott Mueller has thoroughly updated his legendary Upgrading and Repairing PCs with hundreds of pages of new coverage reflecting todays latest and most important PC technologies. This extraordinary package also includes a DVD containing more than two hours of digital video demonstrating PC maintenance and repair. Students can watch this video 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 students rapidly diagnose more than 250 common PC hardware problems, as well as an extensive vendor contact guide, and a comprehensive PC technical glossary. In addition to digital video, the accompanying disk contains an extensive technical reference with thousands of pages of content from previous versions of the book.