Overview
The Complete PC Upgrade and Maintenance Guide is a problem-solving wonder. In simple, easy-to-follow language, it shows you how to prevent disasters, fix the ones that occur, and maximize your PC's power and longevity. Based on author Mark Minasi's popular seminars, this book is an unbelievable value—for only $59.99 U.S., it teaches you everything you need to know to meet your PC challenges.Coverage includes:
- Preventing hardware disasters
- Installing new components
- Upgrading memory
- Replacing power supplies
- Installing EIDE hard drives
- Adding SCSI ports and devices
- Partitioning and formatting EIDE and SCSI drives
- Protecting your PC from viruses
- Solving data backup challenges
- Adding and repairing removable media devices CD-ROMs, floppies, and others
- Troubleshooting printers
Installing communications devices - Upgrading mice and keyboards
Installing video and sound cards - Tackling networking issues
Choosing a new PC - Troubleshooting Internet connectivity problems
- Building your own PC
- Solving special laptop problems
- Upgrading mice and keyboards
On the first CD, you'll find over one hour of instructional video in which PC expert Mark Minasi teaches you his field-proven upgrade and repair techniques. Based on his popular $800 seminars, these videos are a great resource and an unbeatable value. On the second CD, you get over 20 system tune-up and diagnostic tools—utilities that help you monitor and fine-tune your PC's performance, restrict access to important data, and recover quickly when disaster strikes.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewMark Minasi is CNN’s resident PC expert: a master at explaining complicated stuff in plain English, without jargon, oversimplification, or condescension. That’s what you want in a book on PC upgrades and maintenance. And that’s what Minasi delivers in his.
The Complete PC Upgrade & Maintenance Guide, 15th Edition is fully updated and as comprehensive as ever. You’ll find new coverage of Opteron, Centrino, Pentium 4, and Itanium processors. Flash memory. Serial ATA drives. Video capture cards. The whole menagerie of confusing DVD recordable technologies. And plenty more.
You name it, it’s here. Wired and wireless networking. Scanners. Printers. FireWire connections. Data recovery. Windows XP.
Minasi’s determined to give you all the help you’ll need to get the job done. There’s a complete chapter on taking PCs apart without frying them. Dynamic visual layouts walk you through many upgrades. This edition adds “QuickSteps” sections throughout: rapid-fire, step-by-step instructions for common tasks such as installing hard drives and DVDs, replacing power supplies, adding memory, and replacing CPUs. Want to see even more? There’s a complete video PC maintenance course on CD-ROM.
Why isn’t that 160 MB hard drive working with Windows XP? Why is your laser printer leaving vertical white streaks on the page? Why can’t you get enough sound from your speakers? Minasi shines when it comes to issues like these. There are problem-solving sections in almost every chapter. Better yet, he introduces a systematic approach to troubleshooting, one that’ll help you track down practically any problem, quickly. Bill Camarda
Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2003 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.