Owing to the rapidly changing nature of PCs this edition
has been revised and extended in order to continue it's
role as an essential guide to the operation and repair of
modern PCs.
New material has been added on networking, operating
systems, peripheral devices and logic devices. ISDN and
ADSL will also be covered in more detail.
Contents
1. Microprocessor fundamentals
2. An introduction to MS_DOS commands
3. The power supply
4. Computer memory
5. The motherboard
6. The Intel processor
7. The expansion bus
8. The booting-up process
9. Interrupts
10. Input/output adaptors
11. Serial and parallel ports
12. Direct memory access
13. Disks and disk drives
14. Monitors and video adaptors
15. The keyboard and the mouse
16. CD-ROM and DVD drives
17. The sound card
18. Motherboard configuration and installation
19. Interfacing with the telephone system
20. Logical fault finding
21. Introduction to local area networks
22. Printers and scanners Appendices: MS-DOS commands
Measurement and test instruments
Binary and hexadecimal Chip markings
Logic devices
Revision questions and answers
Glossary