Upgrading and Repairing PCs

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For 25 years, Upgrading and Repairing PCs has been the world’s #1 guide to PC hardware: The single source for reliable information on troubleshooting and fixing problems, adding hardware, optimising performance, and building new PCs. Scott Mueller delivers practical answers about PC processors, mother-boards, buses, BIOSes, memory, SSD and HDD storage, video, audio, I/O, input devices, networks, Internet connectivity, power, and much more. The book offers the industry’s best coverage of diagnostics, testing, and repair–plus cutting-edge discussions of improving performance via overclocking and other techniques.

• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Development of the PC
• Chapter 2 PC Components, Features, and System Design 
• Chapter 3 Processor Types and Specifications 
• Chapter 4 Motherboards and Buses
• Chapter 5 BIOS 
• Chapter 6 Memory
• Chapter 7 The ATA/IDE Interface
• Chapter 8 Magnetic Storage
• Chapter 9 Flash and Removable Storage 
• Chapter 10 Optical Storage 
• Chapter 11 Video Hardware 
• Chapter 12 Audio Hardware 
• Chapter 13 External I/O Interfaces 
• Chapter 14 Input Devices 
• Chapter 15 Internet Connectivity
• Chapter 16 Local Area Networking
• Chapter 17 Power Supplies
• Chapter 18 Building or Upgrading Systems 
• Chapter 19  PC Diagnostics, Testing, and Maintenance 

Scott Mueller is the president of Mueller Technical Research (MTR), an international research and corporate training firm. Since 1982, MTR has produced the industry’s most in-depth, accurate, and effective seminars, books, articles, videos, and FAQs covering PC hardware and data recovery. MTR maintains a client list that includes Fortune 500 companies, U.S. and foreign governments,

major software and hardware corporations, as well as PC enthusiasts and entrepreneurs. Scott’s seminars have been presented to several thousands of PC support professionals throughout the world.

Scott personally teaches seminars nationwide covering all aspects of PC hardware (including troubleshooting, maintenance, repair, and upgrade), A+ Certification, and data recovery/forensics. He has a knack for making technical topics not only understandable, but entertaining; his classes are never boring! If you have ten or more people to train, Scott can design and present a custom seminar for your organization.

Although he has taught classes virtually nonstop since 1982, Scott is best known as the author of the longest-running, most popular, and most comprehensive PC hardware book in the world, Upgrading and Repairing PCs, which has become the core of an entire series of books, including Upgrading and Repairing PCs, Upgrading and Repairing Laptops, and Upgrading and Repairing Windows.

Scott’s premiere work, Upgrading and Repairing PCs, has sold more than two million copies, making it by far the most popular and longest-running PC hardware book on the market today. Scott has been featured in Forbes magazine and has written several articles for PC World magazine, Maximum PC magazine, the Scott Mueller Forum, various computer and automotive newsletters, and the Upgrading and Repairing PCs website.