Mike Meyers' A+ Guide to Managing and Troubleshooting PCs

Essential Skills for On-the-Job Success Mike Meyers, one of the premier computer and network skills trainers, has developed a learning system designed to teach A+ PC technician skills in an easy-to-understand way that will prepare you for an IT career. Mike gives you helpful tips throughout the book, end-of-chapter practice questions, and hundreds of photographs and illustrations. Completely up to date for the new CompTIA A+ standards, this comprehensive guide will help you pass the A+ certification exams and become an expert hardware technician. Inside this book, you will learn how to: bull; bull;Configure CMOS and BIOS settings bull;Identify expansion bus slots and install expansion cards bull;Work with motherboards, CPUs, and RAM bull;Provide proper power and cooling bull;Install, partition, and format hard drives bull;Install and troubleshoot floppy, CD, and DVD drives bull;Install and upgrade Windows 9x/Me, Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, Windows 2000 Professional, and Windows XP bull;Create SCSI chains bull;Install sound and video cards bull;Work with portable PCs, PDAs, and wireless technologies bull;Manage printers and connect to networks The CD-ROM features: bull; bull;Three full practice exams with hundreds of questions for both the Operating Systems and Core Hardware requirements. Available in Practice or Final Mode. bull;One hour of LearnKey video training featuring Michael Meyers teaching key A+ topics (online registration required) bull;Useful tools and utilities for PC technicians Each chapter includes: bull; bull;Learning Objectives bull;Many Figures and Illustrations bull;Real-World Examples bull;Try This! and Cross Check Exercises bull;Tech Tip Sidebars bull;Helpful Notes and Warnings bull;End-of-Chapter Quizzes and Lab ProjectsMeyers, Michael is the author of 'Mike Meyers' A+ Guide to Managing and Troubleshooting PCs', published 2003 under ISBN 9780072231465 and ISBN 0072231467.