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Wiley Pathways PC Hardware Essentials Project Manual
John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Dec 2007, Pages: 240
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The PC Hardware Essentials Project Manual offers a wealth of easy-to-read, practical, and up-to-date activities that reinforce fundamental PC hardware concepts.
You will develop the core competencies and skills you'll need in the real world, including how to:
- Use System Properties to determine basic PC configuration
- Remove and replace drives, drive cables, and expansion cards in a PC
- Locate the various components of a motherboard, and identify its type and form factor
- Use the Device Manager and System Information utility to resolve system resource conflicts
- Perform hard disk drive setup and maintenance activities
- Install and configure various I/O devices on your computer
- Share devices over a network
- Upgrade a laptop's internal components
This is the Project Manual to accompany PC Hardware Essentials. The PM contains a series of exercises that help readers apply textbook concepts and skills in a practical way. Before making a new purchase of any PC hardware, readers must take a look at this comprehensive book. It offers practical and concise explanations of contemporary and popular hardware, covering everything from multicore CPUs and SATA hard drives to PCIe expansion buses and peripherals. Along with this detailed information, readers will gain insight into effectively building, maintaining, upgrading, and troubleshooting desktop PCs and laptops.
About the author(s):
Russell Polo holds degrees in computer science and electrical engineering. He has designed, implemented, and managed Microsoft, UNIX, and Novell networks in a number of business firms since 1995. He is currently the Network Administrator at Azimuth Interactive.
David Groth is a full-time author and consultant. He is the author of the Sybex's bestselling Network+ Study Guide as well as I-Net+ Study Guide and Cabling: The Complete Guide to Network Wiring. Groth holds many technical certifications, including A+, Network+, Server+, Security+, MCSE, and CNI.
Ron Gilster (CCNA, CCSE, i-Net+, Network+, A+, MBA, and AAGG) has been involved with Cisco networking and internetworking since 1993 as a trainer, teacher, developer, merchant, and end user. He has more than 35 years of total computing experience, including more than 15 years involved with the networking of computers. He also has extensive experience consulting in computer-related areas, including working on mainframes, minicomputers, and virtually every type of personal computer and operating system that exists. He has held consulting and management positions with several high profile companies. Ron is semi-retired, writing and teaching the occasional college course. He is the author of CCDA For Dummies, Cisco Networking For Dummies, A+ Certification For Dummies, Network+ Certification For Dummies, Server+ Certification For Dummies, and i-Net+ Certification For Dummies, plus several books on networking, including wireless networking, the Internet, computer hardware, computer and information literacy, and programming.
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