Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1612809 in Books
• Published on: 1998-11
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

Synopsis
PCs are designed to be very expandable and before long for numerous reasons, many PC users actually need to take advantage of this expansion potential and start upgrading their systems. Although some aspects of PC upgrading and expansion can abe a little confusing to the inexperience. this book provides advice and guidance on the popular forms of internal PC expansion,and should help to make things reasonably straight forward and hopefully painless! Little knowledge of computing is assumed, in fact the only assumption is that the reader can operate his or her standard desktop PC. Even for major upgrades and building PCs "from scratch" not a vast amount of experience is needed nor is there a need to be more than reasonably practical. The book covers such topics as memory upgrades; adding hard and floppy disc drives; display adaptors and monitors; ports; keyboards; mice and graphic tablets; DIY PCs, etc. Each topic is covered in detail with the emphasis being on the practical rather than the theoretical. The final chapter covers maintenance (including preventative maintenance) and repairs, plus the increasingly popular subject of getting a new lease of life out of old or obsolete PCs.

Customer Reviews

Basics, Not for network info or IT co-ordinators in schools.
A good buy for the novice... If you have ever had a look inside your computer, the format of the text should be familiar! If you have never ventured inside, this text gives you the guided tour and will provide valuable information/instruction, when/if you decide to upgrade.

Do not be misleaded by the promise of expansion.

Typographic correction
TO ALL READERS OF MY 1st review, I appologise for the typo, 'misleaded' should have read misled/fooled/duped/tricked/conned etc...