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Managing and Troubleshooting PCs with CDROM

Managing and Troubleshooting PCs with CDROM
Essential Skills for On-the-Job Success Mike Meyers, one of the premier computer and network skills trainers, has developed a learning system designed to teach A+ PC technician skills in an easy-to-understand way that will prepare you for an IT career. Mike gives you helpful tips throughout the book, end-of-chapter practice questions, and hundreds of photographs and illustrations. Completely up to date for the new CompTIA A+ standards, this comprehensive guide will help you pass the A+ certification exams "and become an expert hardware technician. Inside this book, you will learn how to: Configure CMOS and BIOS settings Identify expansion bus slots and install expansion cards Work with motherboards, CPUs, and RAM Provide proper power and cooling Install, partition, and format hard drives Install and troubleshoot floppy, CD, and DVD drives Install and upgrade Windows 9"x/Me, Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, Windows 2000 Professional, and Windows XP Create SCSI chains Install sound and video cards Work with portable PCs, PDAs, and wireless technologies Manage printers and connect to networks The CD-ROM features: Three full practice exams with hundreds of questions for both the Operating Systems and Core Hardware requirements. Available in Practice or Final Mode.



PC Hardware in a Nutshell 3e by Robert B. Thompson, X
PC Hardware in a Nutshell 3e by Robert B. Thompson, X
A longtime favorite among PC users, the third edition of the book now contains useful information for people running either Windows or Linux operating systems. Written for novices and seasoned professionals alike, the book is packed with useful and unbiased information, including how-to advice for specific components, ample reference material, and a comprehensive case study on building a PC. In addition to coverage of the fundamentals and general tips about working on PCs, the book includes chapters focusing on motherboards, processors, memory, floppies, hard drives, optical drives, tape devices, video devices, input devices, audio components, communications, power supplies, and maintenance. Special emphasis is given to upgrading and troubleshooting existing equipment so you can get the most from your existing investments.



Virtual drive - A virtual drive is a term used with respect to computers when a drive is emulated in some fashion. The drive being emulated could be a hard drive, floppy drive, CD or DVD drive among others.

Pocket Zip drive - The PocketZip™ drive was a drive made by Iomega in 1999 that used only small, very thin, floppy-like 40MB disks. It was known as the "Clik!

Cylinder (disk drive) - A disk drive cylinder is a division of data in a disk drive, as used in the CHS addressing mode of a hard disk (or floppy disk). The concept is concentric, hollow, cylindrical slices through the physical disks (platters), collecting the respective circular tracks aligned through the stack of platters.

Floppy disk controller - A floppy disk controller (FDC) is a special-purpose chip and associated circuitry that directs and controls reading from and writing to a computer's floppy disk drive.



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