Repairing and Upgrading Your PC

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Repairing and Upgrading Your PC delivers start-to-finish instructions, simple enough for even the most inexperienced PC owner, for troubleshooting, repairing, and upgrading your computer. Written by hardware experts Robert Bruce Thompson and Barbara Fritchman Thompson, this book covers it all: how to troubleshoot a troublesome PC, how to identify which components make sense for an upgrade, and how to tear it all down and put it back together. This book shows how to repair and upgrade all of your PC's essential components.  Read more... Abstract: Repairing and Upgrading Your PC delivers start-to-finish instructions, simple enough for even the most inexperienced PC owner, for troubleshooting, repairing, and upgrading your computer. Written by hardware experts Robert Bruce Thompson and Barbara Fritchman Thompson, this book covers it all: how to troubleshoot a troublesome PC, how to identify which components make sense for an upgrade, and how to tear it all down and put it back together. This book shows how to repair and upgrade all of your PC's essential components Content: Repairing and Upgrading Your PC Preface Acknowledgments We & d Like to Hear from You How to Contact the Authors 1. Getting Started 1.2. Popular Upgrades 1.3. Choosing Components 1.4. Buying Components 1.5. Troubleshooting 1.5.2. Problem: The system seems to start normally, but the display remains black 1.5.3. Problem: When you connect power (or turn on the power switch on the back of the power supply), the power supply starts briefly and then shuts off 1.5.4. Problem: When you apply power, the floppy drive LED lights solidly and the system fails to start. 1.5.5. Problem: The optical drive appears to play audio CDs, but no sound comes from the speakers1.5.6. Problem: SATA drives are not recognized 1.5.7. Problem: The monitor displays BIOS boot text, but the system doesn & t boot and displays no error message 1.5.8. Problem: The monitor displays a Hard Drive Failure or similar error message 1.5.9. Problem: The monitor displays a No Boot Device, Missing Operating System, or similar error mes.