PC hardware : maintenance and repair

Title:

Personal Author:

Graves, Michael

Publication Information:

Albany, NY : Prompt Publications, 2002

ISBN:

9780790612508

Subject Term:

Microcomputers -- Maintenance and repair

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As the technology surrounding our desktop PCs continues to evolve at a rapid pace, the opportunity to understand, repair and upgrade your PC is attractive. In an era where the PC you bought last year is now oout of dateo, your opportunity to bring your PC up-to-date rests in this informative text. Renouned author Michael Graves addresses this subject in a one-on-one manner, explaining each category of computer hardware in a complete, concise manner."

1 Pieces and Parts	p. 1
The Guts	p. 1
Expansion Cards	p. 14
The Power Supply	p. 22
The Box Itself	p. 23
Conclusion	p. 29
2 Basic Electricity and the Power Supply	p. 31
The Basics of Electricity	p. 31
Electrical Parts	p. 40
The Power Supply	p. 42
Troubleshooting Power Supplies	p. 50
3 You'll Never Have a Better Friend Than Your Mother(board)	p. 53
Navigating the Motherboard	p. 54
BIOS	p. 68
Chipsets	p. 86
Winding Down on Motherboards	p. 96
4 The CPU	p. 97
Transistors, Binary, and Logic Gates	p. 97
The Micro-Components of the CPU	p. 100
The CPU and Memory	p. 110
CPU Form Factor	p. 114
The Making of a CPU	p. 121
Advanced CPU Capabilities	p. 123
The Evolution of the CPU	p. 128
The Future of CPUs	p. 151
5 Your Computer and Its Memory	p. 155
Quantifying and Qualifying Memory	p. 156
How Memory Works	p. 158
DRAM Timing and Memory Types	p. 161
Memory Chips and Modules	p. 170
Module Sizes and Banks of Memory	p. 193
Error-Correction Methods	p. 197
Conclusion	p. 201
6 Riding the Expansion Bus	p. 203
Why Do We Have an Expansion Bus?	p. 203
The Functions of the Expansion Bus	p. 205
The Evolution of the Expansion Bus	p. 223
7 Input Devices	p. 239
The Keyboard	p. 239
The Mouse	p. 249
Game Controllers	p. 255
Touchscreen Monitors	p. 257
8 Working with Removable Disks	p. 261
The Floppy Disk	p. 261
Other Removable Disk Drives	p. 270
Tope Solutions	p. 277
9 Hard Disk Drives: Keeping an Orderly Closet	p. 283
Basic Hard Drive Geometry	p. 284
How a Hard Drive is Constructed	p. 286
Hard Drive Performance and I/O Operations	p. 292
Hard Disk I/O Operations	p. 295
Data-Encoding Mechanisms	p. 299
File Systems	p. 302
Hard Drive Interfaces	p. 315
SCSI	p. 331
The Nonstandard Interfaces	p. 331
Hard Disk Preparation	p. 334
10 Dealing With SCSI	p. 343
How SCSI Works	p. 344
Techniques of Spanning Disks	p. 351
The Evolution of SCSI	p. 362
Advanced SCSI Features	p. 373
Installing SCSI Devices	p. 377
Comparing IDE and SCSI	p. 385
11 Your Computer and Graphics	p. 389
Computer Monitors	p. 389
Transistors, Binary, and Logic Gates	p. 389
Graphics Adapters	p. 400
Conclusion	p. 424
12 Multimedia: The $2,000 Deck of Cards	p. 425
Computer Monitors	p. 425
Transistors, Binary, and Logic Gates	p. 425
The Components of Multimedia	p. 426
Installing CD-ROMs	p. 439
The Descendants of CD-ROM	p. 445
Sound Cards	p. 451
Computer Graphics	p. 456
3D Computer Graphics	p. 465
13 Printing Technologies: Getting It All on Paper	p. 471
Impact Printers	p. 472
Inkjet Technologies	p. 478
Optical Printers	p. 480
Printer Languages	p. 487
IEEE 1284	p. 491
14 Networking Computers	p. 497
Why Build a Network?	p. 498
Peer-to-Peer or Client/Server?	p. 501
The Hardware of Networking	p. 503
Networking Media	p. 506
Some Other Basic Hardware for the Network	p. 521
Network Topologies	p. 525
The OSI Layers and IEEE	p. 529
Network Operating Systems	p. 532
Navigating the Hardware Protocols	p. 536
Networking Protocols	p. 542
15 Telecommunications	p. 553
Modems	p. 554
Installing and Troubleshooting Modems	p. 577
ISDN	p. 582
DSL	p. 585
Cable Modems	p. 587
High-Speed WAN Connections	p. 590
16 Basic Troubleshooting	p. 593
The Troubleshooting Method	p. 593
Troubleshooting Tools	p. 598
Troubleshooting Roadmaps	p. 606
Troubleshooting Memory	p. 609
Troubleshooting Hard Drives	p. 617
Motherboard Replacement	p. 625
Making Heads or Tails of a Motherboard Spec Sheet	p. 626
Troubleshooting Motherboard-Related Issues	p. 630
Diagnosing Processor-Related Failures	p. 633
Troubleshooting Floppy Disk Drives	p. 634
Troubleshooting Graphics Adapters	p. 639
Troubleshooting Keyboards	p. 641
Troubleshooting CD-ROM drives	p. 642
Troubleshooting the Expansion Bus	p. 644
Troubleshooting Modems	p. 647
Figuring Out the I/O Ports	p. 649
Troubleshooting Power Supplies	p. 651
Conclusion	p. 653
17 Data Backup and Recovery	p. 655
Disk Structure and Data Recovery	p. 656
Initiating Disaster Recovery	p. 670
Fault Tolerance, Data Recovery, or Disaster Recovery?	p. 690
18 Here a Tweak, There a Tweak	p. 693
Before You Tweak	p. 694
Overclocking a System	p. 695
Tweaking the BIOS	p. 701
Tweaking the OS	p. 702
Conclusion	p. 718
Appendix A Building a Computer from Scratch	p. 719
Sorting Out the Inventory	p. 719
Putting It All Together	p. 735
Appendix B The PC's Somewhat Checkered History	p. 751
Primitive Computing Methods	p. 751
The Seventeenth Century	p. 754
The Nineteenth Century	p. 756
The Computer as We Know It	p. 761
1937 to World War II	p. 762
Post-War Developments	p. 765
The Birth of the PC	p. 769
Appendix C Off to a Good Start	p. 771
Who is CompTIA, and Why Should I Get Certified?	p. 771
PC Basics	p. 775
How your Computer Eats Data--One Byte at a Time	p. 779
PC System Architecture	p. 790
Appendix D BIOS Beep Codes and Error Messages	p. 793
BIOS Setup (Award)	p. 794
BIOS Beep Codes	p. 798
Common Chipsets	p. 802
Appendix E Recommended Technical Resources	p. 811
Books	p. 811
Web Sites	p. 812
Subscription Services	p. 814
Appendix F Abbreviated List of Manufacturers	p. 817
Motherboard Manufacturers	p. 817
Microprocessors	p. 823
Memory	p. 823
Storage Devices	p. 825
Video Cards	p. 826
Modems	p. 827
Network Cards	p. 830
Glossary	p. 831
Index	p. 873

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