Troubleshooting Your PC

When PC users run into trouble, Troubleshooting Your PC, Second Edition helps them pinpoint the problem and identify a solution—fast!

Easy-to-use book delivers fast solutions so users can fix their own hardware problems—no phone calls, no fruitless trial and error!

Key Book Benefits:

• Designed expressly to help beginning and intermediate users solve problems, Troubleshooting Your PC, Second Edition proceeds directly to the source of the problem and recommends a solution.
• This book focuses on troubleshooting PCs running the newly released Windows XP operating system. It is a timely, relevant resource for thousands who are buying new PCs or upgrading to Windows XP.
• With a choice of several ways to access information—Top 20 Problems, quick-reference and detailed tables of contents, and flowcharts—users can solve their problem without a lot of work and having to call technical support. Sidebars explain why the problem might have occurred and help users avoid the problem in the future.
• Readers of otherTroubleshooting titles have praised how easy this approach makes it to find the information they need, because the books lay out a clear path from problem to solution.

About this book
Troubleshooting tips
Working inside your computer
Computer crashes
Computer hardware and Windows
Computer noises
Computer slow or losing time
Computer startup: blank screen
Computer startup: won't boot
Connections
Display: blank after bootup
Display: color and brightness
Display: flawed images
Display: LCD Display: quality flaws
Drives: after installation
Drives: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD
Drives: floppy disk drives
Drives: hard disk booting
Drives: removable disks
Emergencies
Keyboard and mouse
Printer hardware basics
Printer software basics
Printer software drivers
Appendix
When you have to reinstall Windows
Glossary
Quick fix index
Index