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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.39
EAN num: 9780470107874
ISBN number: 0470107871
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 555
Printing Date: June 12, 2007
Publishing house: Wiley
Sale Popularity Level: 305377
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Product Description:
- 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
- The CD-ROM includes essential video clips of the most common Fix-Your-Own techniques and hard-to-find information on older machines as well as a searchable PDF version of the book, making the book valuable to owners of both old and new machines
Amazon.com Review:
Do you have the urge to take the casing off your Windows-based PC and tinker around, but you're a little intimidated? If so, get this book first. The text is clear and well-indexed, and this book will give you the information, and then, confidence, that you need. (It would also be a great book for anyone who wants to help recycle old computers for schools or non-profits). Two Torx blades up!
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I fully subscribe to the old shoe "a picture is worth a thousand words" and one thing his book does is give you more than adequate views of what's being described in text. I brings you up to date on all the merid of changes that have occured. Of course as soon as someone writes a book like this it is already obsolete, but for the consumate "upgrader" like myself who will never own the latest and the greatest it is a perfect reference.
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This book shows you clearly how a computer works and how you can get into it to make changes, updates and repairs. I was happy to learn that I actually know a lot! But the stuff I didn't know what there. I was able to fix two older computer (seniors) by following this book. I was able to easily move a hard disk drive, so now I have extra memory on my current computer and can recycle an older one.
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This book is great for beginners. It covers nearly every kind of hardware that has ever gone in a standard PC. It does a great job of explaining old/obsolete/outdated hardware as well. However, information on new stuff, like PCIe, SATA and DDR2, is pretty scarce.
The troubleshooting charts and techniques are a little thin and there is very little coverage of troubleshooting techniques for the operating system.
If you want to learn about computer hardware, this book is everything you are looking for and more. If you are looking for a complete book on troubleshooting & fixing computers, it is a good starting point, but you will need another book to help you with OS problems.
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Written with non-technical PC users in mind, Fix Your Own PC is a valuable guide to diagnosing, fixing, and understanding your PC. That is hardly surprising, given that the book is into its sixth edition with over 200,000 copies in print.
In the author's opinion, repairing a PC is actually a job that exercises the muscles between your ears. True to his words, he makes this job appear less physically daunting than fixing, say, a car.
With nearly 250 photos, illustrations and troubleshooting flowcharts, Fix Your Own PC introduces you to the alphabet soup of the PC world in layman terms. The book comes with easily identified icons highlighting useful tips and important notes about the subject, as well as handy cross-references that point to more details elsewhere.
If you want to know how to change a hard drive, fix balky memory, or figure out why your monitor has gone black, this book will give you the sense of pride that comes with accomplishing work on your own. Plus, it might save you time and money!
Perhaps the only drawback is the format of the book, which can be difficult to browse on a cluttered tabletop.
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This book as is good as it's title: I did manage to fix my own (Pentium II) PC by reading it! It gave me the knowledge to find the problem (a bad motherboard) and the courage to replace it. Operations that at very first glance looked intimidating, were made relatively simple by the book's clear discussions, explanations and photos. It's range covers the inner workings of old PC's up through the Pentium II (as well as a little bit of info on the Pentium III.) Not a perfect book, though: the photo printing could be better; and the section on power supplies isn't complete or accurate, particularly when it comes to ATX-type supplies--oddly, the type found in most Pentium machines, for which the book is otherwise a good repair guide. (The power supply is a vital component in a PC, and is oftentimes the very first gizmo to go bad.) I had to go outside the book to find that critical info. But criticism aside, I wouldn't have been able to repair my computer without this book, period, so I would recommend it. Perhaps a newer edition will correct the minor shortcomings.
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