PC Hardware Reference CD-ROM

Now you can get The BIOS Companion, The Communications and Networking book, and The Hard Disk Database, all on a single CD-ROM! The CD-ROM is very well designed, and contains the text of every single page from the 3 books.

The BIOS Companion

The BIOS Companion highlights the uses of tons of BIOS Setup settings (even recommends settings for optimal performance), has a very complete section of troubleshooting related information such as error messages, beeps, and POST codes, and even includes 55 well written pages on several computer hardware topics.

The Hard Disk Database

The Hard Disk Database contains drive parameter settings for 1000's of hard drives, as well as information and jumper settings for controller cards and a number of other PC peripheral interface cards.

Communications and Networking for Windows

This book is a good reference for information on the Internet, modems, fax, software, managing a network, Netware, and plenty more.