- Hardcover: 1628 pages
- Publisher: Macmillan Publishing (Trade); 11 edition (2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0789719037
- ISBN-13: 978-0789719034
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 19.8 x 6.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 2.6 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,473,984 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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If you want to understand what's going on inside an Intel-standard PC, Mueller's tome should be at the top of your hardware-book heap. Upgrading and Repairing PCs overflows with both tutoring and reference material. Mueller intersperses intelligent and easy-to-follow prose with conceptual diagrams and drawings and factual tables. You can either read through and learn from the author's experience or flip right to the answer you need to solve a problem. The up-to-date information includes Pentium II and limited coverage of Celeron, Xeon, and the latest non-Intel processors. The author also accurately surveys state-of-the-art components aside from CPUs, covering new SCSI boards and Voodoo Rush video, for example.
The guide hosts a directory of almost every company that makes hardware for the PC, complete with physical addresses, phone numbers, and URLs. On top of that, there's a good glossary, a table of modem commands, and thousands of hard-drive parameters (heads, cylinders, and so forth). Two companion CD-ROMs hold a searchable database of hard-drive specs, some videos of Mueller's lectures, and a bunch of diagnostic software.
Though it's not specifically written as an A+ certification study guide, this book could be used as preparation for the hardware portion of the A+ exam. Mueller's coverage is far more comprehensive than what that exam requires, so be careful about studying details that don't appear on the test. --David Wall --This text refers to the Textbook Binding edition.
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"For professional technicians and hobbyists, this is the most trusted and popular guide on the market."The Bookseller, Aug 2001
--This text refers to an alternate
Hardcover
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Upgrading and Repairing PCs,
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This review is from: Upgrading and Repairing PCs (Hardcover)
This is an older edition that I purchased while waiting for the 2010 edition to come out. (disk was missing otherwise excellent shape)
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Outstanding,
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This review is from: Upgrading and Repairing PCs (13th Edition) (Hardcover)
If it isn't in this book, you don't need to know it. Current, well organized and specific.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Overall very complete, just a few things to fix.,
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This review is from: Upgrading and Repairing PCs, Academic Edition (Hardcover)
Having been an instrucotr for over 4 years and having taught enough computer repair classes I have found that certain books are better suited for the class than others. This is one book made for the classroom.What Scott Mueller has done with his already successful book is break it down into a 12 week class. I am not sure how many hours he is spending per week. Some of the chapters are only a few pages long. But with this breakdown you can now set a learning pace based on your needs. The book covers all major parts of the computer and the associated hardware. Based on the information contained within the book you could use this text to study for the A+ Exam. One thing I found really usefull in pacing out the material was the student workbook included in the book as well as on the cdrom. Something new added on the cd is 2 hours of video, which I found informative as well as fairly easy to watch. They cd is supposed to have 6 previous editions of the text included, however I unable to find it, either through the menu or by a manual search of the cd. Overall, this is another successful venture for Scott. You might be hard pressed to find another book like it on the market today.
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