Slightly Askew Advice on Maintaining, Repairing, and Upgrading Your PC
Alfred Poor
ISBN 0-201-48997-X, paperback, 272 pages
"Alfred has taken information that could fill volumes and boiled it down to the mere relevant--all that most of us truly need to buy, maintain, and upgrade today's personal computer system."
--Ed Perratore, Contributing Editor, Computer Shopper
WARNING They don't call it hardware for nothing! You can
repair and upgrade your PC without an advanced degree, but before you take that
cover off your computer, arm yourself with the expert advice of Alfred Poor's
The Underground Guide to Troubleshooting PC Hardware.
You've got hardware troubles. Maybe Windows® 95 has turned your "screamer"
into a cement mixer and you need a RAM upgrade yesterday. Or you've finally
decided to spring for a Pentium, and a little open-heart chip replacement
surgery is in order. Or maybe your old computer and new printer are not on
speaking terms and you'd rather not pay that teenage know-it-all at the
computer store to mediate the dispute. Whatever. You're smart, reasonably
coordinated, and you know that this is the sort of job you should be able to do
yourself. But you hesitate, fearful of frying your hardware and sending up
hundreds of hard-earned dollars in a puff of electrical smoke. It's time to
call in a specialist: Alfred Poor, hardware guru and do-it-yourself coach to
millions, will help you face your motherboard (and more!) with confidence.
 Get the executive briefing on every hardware component of your system: CPU,
memory, hard drive, monitor, printer, CD-ROM, sound card, keyboard, mouse, and
more. Find out what it is, how it works, and how to tell a good one from a bad
one.
Apply Alfred's hands-on tests to figure out where and what the problem is
when things go wrong.
Get how-to advice on upgrading any component--and learn which upgrades will
deliver a noticeable performance improvement, which aren't worth the
money, and when it's best to just trade up for a whole new system.
Most importantly, learn how to experiment intelligently with your PC
to identify and fix just about any hardware problem you encounter!
Every page has something you can use immediately. This book is packed wall to
wall with advice, warnings, tips, bugs reports, workarounds, and the kind of
nitty-gritty explanations that could come only from someone who eats, sleeps,
and breathes PC hardware.
Alfred Poor is a contributing editor at PC Magazine
and Computer Shopper. He writes four columns, including the hardware
portion of PC Magazine's "Solutions" question-and-answer column and
"Alfred Poor's Computer Cures" for Computer Shopper.
Series Editor Woody Leonhard and Addison-Wesley are proud to bring you the Underground Guides--fun books for serious computer users.
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