A+ guide to managing and maintaining your PC
Subtitle: instructor edition
By: Jean Andrews.
Edition: 5th ed., Comprehensive.
Publisher: Course Technology
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1221
Subjects: Computing Technology Industry Association -- Examinations -- Study guides; Electronic data processing personnel -- Certification; Computer technicians -- Certification -- Study guides; Microcomputers -- Maintenance and repair -- Examinations -- Study guides
Genres: Study guides.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: ch. 1. Introducing hardware; title: ch. 2. How hardware and software work together; title: ch. 3. Understanding the boot process and command line; title: ch. 4. Electricity and power supplies; title: ch. 5. The motherboard; title: ch. 6. Managing memory; title: ch. 7. Floppy drives; title: ch. 8. Understanding and installing hard drives; title: ch. 9. Optimizing and protecting hard drives; title: ch. 10. Supporting I/O devices; title: ch. 11. Multimedia devices and mass storage; title: ch. 12. Supporting Windows 9x; title: ch. 13. Understanding and installing Windows 2000 and Windows NT; title: ch. 14. Managing and troubleshooting Windows 2000; title: ch. 15. Installing and using Windows XP Professional; title: ch. 16. Managing and supporting Windows XP; title: ch. 17. Supporting modems; title: ch. 18. PCs on a network; title: ch. 19. PCs on the Internet; title: ch. 20. Notebooks, Tablet PCs, and PDAs; title: ch. 21. Supporting printers; title: ch. 22. All about SCSI (Small computer system interface); title: ch. 23. Purchasing a PC or building your own; title: ch. 24. Troubleshooting and maintenance fundamentals; title: App. A. Error messages and their meanings; title: App. B. ASCII character set and Ansi.sys; title: App. C. The hexidecimal number system and memory addressing; title: App. D. FAT details; title: App. E. Electricity and multimeters; title: App. F. The professional PC technician; title: App. G. Introducing Linux.