Summary

More technical than may interest most users, a comprehensive guide to assessing systems, installing new hardware, and troubleshooting problems for all IBM and compatible personal computers. Includes specifications for every PC system and subsystem, including major peripherals; and details the workings and upgrade possibilities of motherboards, memory, disk and CD drivers, power supplies, sound and video boards, monitors, and just about every other part of a computer that has physical weight. No bibliography. New editions come out every two or three years to keep pace with the changing technology. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.