Upgrading & Fixing PCs For Dummies

Introduction

PART I. Biting Your Fingernails

1. Are You Nerdy Enough to Do It Yourself?

2. The Right Way to Fix Your PC

3. Where Does This Piece Go? (Basic Computer Anatomy)

4. Figuring Out What's Broken

PART II. The PC Parts You Can See (External Peripherals)

5. The Sticky Keyboard

6. Mice in the Pantry

7. Mucked-Up Modems

8. Tweaking the Monitor

9. Printers (Those Paper Wasters)

PART III. The Stuff Hiding Inside Your PC

10. The Motherboard (And Its CPU, BIOS, and Even a Battery)

11. Memory Stuff You Wish You Could Forget

12. Floppy Drives

13. Hard Drives, CD and DVD Drives, Zip Drives, and Other Storage Devices

14. Power Supplies

15. Stuff on Cards

PART IV. Telling Your Computer What You've Done

16. That AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS File Stuff

17. Fixing Squeaky Windows

18. Fiddling with Settings

PART V. The Part of Tens

19. Ten Cheap Fixes to Try First

20. The Ten Hardest Upgrades

21. The Ten Easiest Upgrades

22. Ten Ways to Empower an Aging Pentium

23. Ten Baffling Things Your Computer May Say When You Turn It On

24. Ten Common Warning Beeps and What They Mean

25. Ten Common Error Messages (And How to Avoid Them.

26. Ten Years of Computer Antiques and What to Do with Them

Index

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