Fix Your Own Pc, 8th Ed

Packed with crisp black-and-white photographs and illustrations, this bestselling guide walks people step by step through all aspects of troubleshooting, upgrading, and repairing a PC
Includes an all-new chapter on "Working Outside the Box," which focuses on external communication devices and controllers.
Covers hardware upgrades and repair-memory, hard drives, CD and DVD drives, video cards, monitors, USB connections, modems, routers, and more-as well as tools for diagnosing and fixing software problems, including antivirus software, diagnostic programs, and system restore and driver update utilities.

Table of contents :
Author’s Acknowledgments
Preface
Publisher’s Acknowledgments
· Looking Under the Hood
· The Microprocessor
· BIOS
· The Computer Bus
· Basic Hardware Skills
· Step-by-Step through a Modern PC
· Shopping for PC Parts
· Memory
· Floppy Drives
· Media Hard Drives
· Removable Media Hard Drives
· CD and DVD Drives
· Video Display Adapters and Standards
· Monitors and LCD Displays
· Working Outside the Box External Serial, USB, eSATA, and FireWire Connections
· Modem Telecommunications
· The Parallel Interface
· Hard Copy
· Your Computer’s Hands, Eyes, and Ears
· Networks, Gateways, Routers, and WiFi Wireless
· Backup Strategies
· Antivirus, Utility, and Diagnostic Programs
· Windows Troubleshooting and Repairs
· Common-Sense Solutions to Hardware Headaches
Glossary
Index
End-User License Agreement
What’s on the CD


Market Description :
Non-technical computer users that want to be able to make basic repairs and updates to their own machines.

About Author :
Corey Sandler is a pioneer of computer journalism. He was the first executive editor of PC Magazine and the founding editor of Digital News. Among his more than 180 books are Upgrading & Fixing Laptops For Dummies and Laptops For Dummies Quick Reference.