Upgrading & Fixing PCs For Dummies

Introduction

Part 1. Biting Your Fingernails
Chapter 1. Are You Nerdy Enough to Do It Yourself?
Chapter 2. The Right Way to Fix Your PC
Chapter 3. Where Does This Piece Go? (Basic Computer Anatomy)
Chapter 4. Figuring Out What's Broken

Part 2. The PC Parts You Can See (Peripherals)
Chapter 5. The Sticky Keyboard
Chapter 6. Mice in the Pantry
Chapter 7. Mucked-up Modems
Chapter 8. Tweaking the Monitor
Chapter 9. Printers (Those Paper Wasters)

Part 3. The Stuff Hiding Inside Your PC
Chapter 10. The Motherboard (And Its CPU, Math Coprocessor, BIOS, and Even a Battery)
Chapter 11. Memory Stuff You Wish You Could Forget
Chapter 12. Floppy Drives
Chapter 13. Hard Drives, CD-ROM Drives, Zip Drives, and Tape Backup Drives
Chapter 14. Power Supplies
Chapter 15. Stuff on Cards

Part 4. Telling Your Computer What You've Done
Chapter 16. That AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS File Stuff
Chapter 17. Fixing Squeaky Windows
Chapter 18. Fiddling with Settings

Part 5. The Part of Tens
Chapter 19. Ten Cheap Fixes to Try First
Chapter 20. The Ten Hardest Upgrades
Chapter 21. The Ten Easiest Things to Upgrade
Chapter 22. Ten Ways to Make Your PC Run Better
Chapter 23. Ten Baffling Things Your Computer May Say When You Turn It On
Chapter 24. Ten Common Warning Beeps and What They Mean
Chapter 25. Ten Common Error Messages (And How to Avoid Them)

Index