Table of Contents

PART ONE The BASICS: PC Basics. An Overview of Components. Basic Electricity & the Power Supply. PART TWO THE CORE COMPONENTS: Computer Enclosures. Motherboards, BIOS & the Chipset. Understanding CPUs. The Evolution of the CPU. Searching Your Memory. PART THREE MOVING AND STORING DATA: Examining The Expansion Bus. User Input Devices. Working with Removable Media. Hard Disk Drive Structure and Geometry. Hard Disk Interfacing and Disk Management. Managing SCSI. PART FOUR THE USER SIDE OF COMPUTING: Your Computer and Graphics. Multimedia. Printing Technologies. Networking Computers. Remote Communications. PART SIX WHEN THINGS GO WRONG: Basic Troubleshooting. Portable Systems.