The Complete Idiot's Guide to Upgrading Your PCThe Complete Idiot's Guide to Upgrading Your PC helps you turn your old PC into a powerful machine with simple steps for improving memory, increasing the speed of your PC, and adding the latest multimedia equipment. In a lighthearted, entertaining approach, you get complete coverage of all the important features. You'll quickly overcome your intimidation and be able to get on with your life. Discover the Quick and Easy Way to save money by making the most of what you already have, plus tips on living with Windows 3.1 until you decide to go to Windows 95; select a new keyboard, mouse, printer, and monitor; convert your old clunker to a power machine by increasing its speed, adding more memory, and getting a bigger hard drive; add a CD-ROM drive, sound card, and speakers; and install a modem so that you can travel the Internet. |
Contents
First Steps Down the Upgrade Path | 1 |
Taking a Look Around the Back | 7 |
Taking a Look Inside | 17 |
Copyright | |
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AUTOEXEC.BAT BIOS blah blah lah blah lah bla brand cable called cartridge CD-ROM drive Chapter 24 CMOS compressed CONFIG.SYS configuration files connect connector copy defrag desktop device driver DIP switches diskette drive drive bay DriveSpace emergency diskette expansion card expansion slots faster floppy drive fonts graphics hard disk hard drive IDE drive inkjet insert install jumper keyboard laptop laser printer look math coprocessor memory menu Microsoft modem monitor motherboard mouse PC's Pentium pins plug power supply press Enter problem prompt RAM chips remove replace ribbon screw SCSI serial port setup program SIMMS socket sound card speed stuff sure swap file Talk blah blah Techno Techno Talk blah tell there's thing update upgrade video card Windows 3.1 Windows 95