Troubleshooting, Maintaining, & Repairing PCs

by Stephen J. Bigelow

Book Overview

A reference to troubleshooting, maintaining and repairing PCs. This fifth edition includes the following features: information about Pentium 4, Itanium, Athlon, Duron, and other late-model processors;... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0079137326
• ISBN13: 9780079137326
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 1692 Pages
• Weight: 5.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.5" x 7.7" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

PC repair for everyone, even computer illiterates like me

I'm not a computer technician. Heck, I can barely operate a computer! I "grew up" (computer-wise) with Macs, which never seem to need fixing and seldom wear out, but because my husband had a typical PC person's prejudice against Macs, I started using PCs. Toshibas, IBMs, Dells -- each and every one sooner or later had problems. Tired of talking to technicians from Wales to Holland, I decided to take an online course in computer repair and this book was required reading.Voila! Help at last.Information is thorough and easy to find. Fixes work.If you HAVE to have a PC and you run into problems, this is the book to have.

Better than Certified Technical Support !

I bought a HP Pavillion 8785C and within the year had so many problems that the PC was racking up more mileage than me!It was 'fixed??' twice by HP. Motherboard changed, Modem changed, RAM changed.. You name it, they changed it and still couldn't solve the problem!I was ready to dump the PC after spending [money] in phone calls to HP Help! They even re-routed my call to India! And kept advising me to re-format my hard drive.Then I bought this book and the solution was on page 698! Symptom 19-3.Within an hour after checking the heat sink and changing the fan, I was back in business.I could have saved so much money if I had bought this book earlier. Fedup with Tech Support? Get this book!Maybe HP should invest in a couple of hundred copies for their staff.

Truly outstanding, and it pays for itself

This is one of the finest books on PC troubleshooting ever written. Each chapter contains a list of symptoms, suggestions, and solutions in an accessible format, helping a technician solve even the most obscure hardware problem quickly. Any book that keeps you from looking like a fool in front of a customer is worth its weight in gold (and it hasn't let me down yet).This book is also good for aspiring technicians, presenting exhaustive (but not overwhelming) coverage of topics you are sure to see on the A+ or CST exams. The author is kind enough to include useful diagrams and historical tidbits throughout the work, making the arcane comprehensible and the boring bearable. How many computer books can you think of that accomplish such a feat?Mr. Bigelow, if you're reading this, I would like to thank you for producing such a wonderful book. Suggesting it to others is the least I can do.

An Excellent PC Hardware Book

If you're a PC Technician, or would like to learn about PC Hardware, a must. It has all the Hardware Info/solutions you need. The entire Book (1500+ pgs) is in PDF format on the CD that accompanies the Book. So you can do a quick 'Keyword' search, or take it with you in a laptop

Best Bang for Your Buck!

As the author rightfully states in his introduction,that this book concentrates on PC symptoms and repair. I own several PC repair books including a recent edition of Scott Mueller's Upgrading and Repairing PC's. Where this book excels is in the formatting and content. Its not a computer theory book. Rather symptoms and their corresponding solutions can be quickly discerned. Working as a PC repair technician I don't have time to wade through lengthy discourses,in order to find a solution for uncommon problem.