Synopsis
This is a text/lab manual designed to teach beginning students the fundamental skills required for hardware and software servicing of microcomputer systems. Title presents safety and basic tools, basic skills, DOS, Windows systems, assembly language, networks and viruses.
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From the Back Cover
The fourth edition of Microcomputer Repair contains 58 exercises divided into six units. This combined text and tab manual is designed to teach beginning electronics students the fundamental skills needed to service microcomputer systems' hardware and software.
Major revisions to this edition are:
- Key terms and summary sections, additional information, and several new self-test questions and. activities have been added to all the exercises.
- Six new exercises increase coverage of Windows and networking.
- Exercise 51, Computer Languages, now contains exposure to additional languages typically used an the PC, such as Visual C++ and Visual BASIC.
- Photos of new and current computer hardware have been added.
- A new Appendix C covers fault tolerance in Windows NT.
- A new Appendix D provides information -on installing and upgrading Windows.
- A glossary, which contains detailed terms related to microcomputer systems, has been added.
Two CD-ROMs are packaged with the text:
- One CD-ROM contains DOS-executable programs called WiNQUIZ and NETQUIZ, which test the reader's knowledge of the text material, as well as demonstration versions of useful networking and file-management utilities.
- A second CD-ROM provides a demonstration version of McAfee Utilities™.
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