Troubleshooting Your PC Bible - Softcover

Aspinwall, Jim; Todd, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764535102 ISBN 13: 9780764535109

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2000

Synopsis

From boot-up to shutdown, keyboard to network adapter, hard disk to modem, PC/XT to P6, DOS to Windows 2000 and Linux, and CONFIG.SYS to REGEDIT, Troubleshooting Your PC Bible, Fifth Edition, is the definitive PC solution and reference guide. This wonderfully comprehensive, highly readable book promotes self-maintenance, guides technical support, and helps you improve system performance, setup and repairs. This expanded fifth edition includes coverage of Windows Millennium, Windows 2000, Linux, the Internet and more.

About this title

About the Author

About the Authors Jim Aspinwall writes to support his PC habit, and he conveys his experiences to others as author of IRQ, DMA, & I/O and as Computer Currents magazine's "Windows Advisor" columnist. He brings to this fifth edition of Troubleshooting Your PC Bible several years of experience with PC utility software, PC diagnostic software, telecommuter-networking technical support, and online support. He has worked for DiagSoft, Vertisoft, TuneUp.com, Quarterdeck, and various high-tech firms. A consummate tinkerer, Jim still finds a few moments away from the keyboard to spend at his workbench in a dusty mountaintop radio shack or on a cold steel tower to build and maintain amateur-radio repeater systems. Mike Todd founded the Internet Society Los Angeles Chapter, the Capital PC User Group in Washington, DC, the IBM Special Interest Group on CompuServe (also on The Source and on Unison), and has promoted the development of computer user groups around the world. Along with Professor Sumpei Cumon, Mike spoke in 1985 at the inauguration of the NEC PC Value Added Network, which was one of the first public networks established in Japan. . Before retiring from the U.S.Navy, Mike fostered the development of the Navy' Microcomputer User Group and trained the people who manage public education in how to use their PCs at each of the regional offices of the U.S. Department of Education. Most recently, Mike, along with a few new friends, has founded the Internet Society Los Angeles Chapter (ISOC-LA). At one of the first ISOC-LA sponsored events, which provided a free clinic for anyone having problems with their computer, Mike even helped a few MAC users upgrade their computers so that they could connect to the Internet. Mike's interests include developing communities and commerce over the Web, information systems technology, health care administration, applications in business and government, programming, computer consulting, hiking, body surfing, bicycle riding, and travel. Contacting the Authors Jim Aspinwall: Internet: wb9gvf@raisin.com or through www.raisin.com Mike Todd: Internet: Mike.Todd@miketodd.com, www.miketodd.com, or mtodd@ISOC-LA.org. The Troubleshooting Your PC Bible Web site can be found at www.typc.com.

From the Back Cover

Save time, save money, save your PC! In this latest edition of this comprehensive guide, previously published as Troubleshooting Your PC, two veteran computer tinkerers show you step-by-step how to deal with slowdowns, meltdowns, and other PC facts of life. Completely updated for all the latest software, hardware, and peripherals and packed with detailed illustrations and diagrams, it's just what you need to diagnose and fix common PC problems ? and keep your computer in tip-top shape. Inside, you'll find complete coverage of PC troubleshooting

• Assemble the tools of the trade, from software utilities to tweezers
• Prevent problems before they happen: backups, tuneups, and virus protection
• Diagnose problems using the unique "Symptoms, Suspects, and Solutions" features
• Decipher cryptic Windows error messages and resolve typical OS difficulties
• Handle networking and Internet glitches, from security to IP addressing
• Resolve system configuration, BIOS, memory addressing, and other hardware issues
• Deal with disk difficulties, from bad drives to partitioning and caching woes
• Solve compatibility, configuration, and other audio-video troubles
• Tackle printer, scanner, keyboard, and SCSI snafus with confidence
• Troubleshoot connections, from COM ports and modems to USB and wireless

Bonus CD-ROM!

• Trial versions of Norton Utilities 2000 and Diskeeper 5.0
• WinGate shareware
• Demo versions of PC-Doctor for Windows and Windows NT

Shareware programs are fully functional, free trial versions of copyrighted programs. If you like particular programs, register with their authors for a nominal fee and receive licenses, enhanced versions, and technical support. Freeware programs are free, copyrighted games, applications, and utilities. You can copy them to as many PCs as you like?free?but they have no technical support. www.idgbooks.com System Requirements: PC running Windows 95 or later, or Windows NT or later

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0764535102
• ISBN 13: 9780764535109
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 936