How ANYONE Can Fix Up and Rev Up PCs

BOOK CONTENTS

Part 1 Getting to Know Your PC

Chapter 1 What You Need
Chapter 2 What's Under the Hood
Chapter 3 How to Avoid Trouble
Chapter 4 The Midnight Drill

Part 2 Memory

Chapter 5 Identifying Your Memory Chips
Chapter 6 How to Identify Bad Memory Chips
Chapter 7 How to Replace or Add Memory

Part 3 Expansion Boards

Chapter 8 Identifying Types of Expansion Slots
Chapter 9 Inserting the Adapter Board
Chapter 10 Connecting Cables to Adapter Boards
Chapter 11 What to Do When There's a Conflict

Part 4 Storage Devices

Chapter 12 Installing a Drive
Chapter 13 Connecting to Power and to the Adapter Board
Chapter 14 Changing the CMOS
Chapter 15 Using FDISK with a New Hard Drive
Chapter 16 Improving Drive Performance with Software

Part 5 Upgrading Your PC to a Multimedia System

Chapter 17 Installing a Sound Card
Chapter 18 Installing Speakers
Chapter 19 Installing a CD-ROM Drive
Chapter 20 Installing a Pass-through Video Board