Customer Reviews

PC Hardware FAT FAQs: PC Troubleshooting, Upgrading, Maintaining and Repairing

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As an IT professional providing technical support for a number of devices, I have read and browsed numerous Hardware Conflict books written and presented as "The One To Have". The format and layout tend to remain the same; A brief history of Computing, followed by a hardware timeline and finally a troubleshooting section. This textbook layout is essential for gathering the overall perspective of systems and their devices. However, it can be tedious to find the error or conflict relavant to your situation, let alone grouping the possible issues into a comparable format. Not anymore! This book is the clear and concise database of the kinds of conflicts I run into on a day-to-day basis. It is laid out in an intuitive manner, with a Q&A format that flows very well. Bigelow doesn't bulk the book with redundant history and theory lessons. He does fill it with relavant, up-to-date issues you inevitably have already come across and continue to see daily. If you a! re in the business of troubleshooting and solving hardware conflicts, Stephen Bigelow has made your job easier by designing a tool that truly is "The One To Have!"

The book is reasonably well written. The other review (the one that bestows 5 stars) was obviously written by the author himself or his publisher. It is unfortunate that the author does not believe the book is good enough to stand on its own merits.

Book deals too much detail about PC's that were long ago put in the dumpster. No information on setting up BIOS for correct settings in modern PC's. Pretty disappointed with this book after a few minutes examination.