Upgrading and Repairing PCs (15th Edition) (Upgrading & Repairing PC's (W/DVD)) [Hardcover]

Scott Mueller (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0789729741 | ISBN-13: 978-0789729743 | Publication Date: August 12, 2003 | Edition: 15

Upgrading and Repairing PCs is the runaway best-selling PC hardware book of all time and one of the best-selling computer books ever! This 15th Edition is loaded with the most up-to-date hardware information anywhere. World-renowned PC hardware expert Scott Mueller has taught thousands in his weeklong seminars and millions through his books, videos and articles. This edition contains hundreds of pages of new material, including the latest in processor and motherboard technologies. The DVD offers you more than two hours of high quality video plus a searchable hard drive database, a searchable vendor database, and thousands of pages of legacy PC hardware coverage that can no longer be included in the printed book, but that are invaluable to PC techs servicing older computers!

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About the Author

Author Bio: Upgrading and Repairing PCs, Fifteenth EditionUpgrading and Repairing PCs, Fifteenth Edition Author Bio Scott Mueller is president of Mueller Technical Research (MTR), an international research and corporate training firm. Since 1982, MTR has produced the industry's most in-depth, accurate, and effective seminars, books, articles, videos, and FAQs covering PC hardware and data recovery. MTR maintains a client list that includes Fortune 500 companies, the U.S. and foreign governments, major software and hardware corporations, as well as PC enthusiasts and entrepreneurs. His seminars have been presented to several thousands of PC support professionals throughout the world. Scott personally teaches seminars nationwide covering all aspects of PC hardware (including troubleshooting, maintenance, repair, and upgrade), A+ Certification, and data recovery/forensics. He has a knack for making technical topics not only understandable, but entertaining as well; his classes are never boring! If you have 10 or more people to train, Scott can design and present a custom seminar for your organization. Although he has taught classes virtually nonstop since 1982, Scott is best known as the author of the longest running, most popular, and most comprehensive PC hardware book in the world, Upgrading and Repairing PCs, which has not only been produced in more than 15 editions, but has also become the core of an entire series of books. Scott has authored many books over the last 20+ years, including Upgrading and Repairing PCs, 1st through 15th and Academic editions; Upgrading and Repairing PCs: A+ Certification Study Guide, 1st and 2nd editions; Upgrading and Repairing PCs Technician's Portable Reference, 1st and 2nd editions; Upgrading and Repairing PCs Field Guide; Upgrading and Repairing PCs Quick Reference; Upgrading and Repairing PCs, Linux Edition; Killer PC Utilities; The IBM PS/2 Handbook; and Que's Guide to Data Recovery. Scott has produced several video training packages covering PC hardware, including a new 6-hour, CD-based seminar titled Upgrading and Repairing PCs Training Course: A Digital Seminar from Scott Mueller. This course is ideal for those who cannot afford to bring Scott in-house. Scott has also produced other videos over the years, including Upgrading and Repairing PCs Video: 12th Edition; Your PC: The Inside Story; as well as 2 hours of free video training that were included in each of the 10th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, and Laptop/Notebook editions of Upgrading and Repairing PCs. Scott has always included unique video segments with his books, rather than using the same clips every year. Many people have collected each of the older editions just to get the unique video training segments included with them. Contact MTR directly if you have a unique book, article, or video project in mind, or if you want Scott to conduct a custom PC troubleshooting, repair, maintenance, upgrade, or data-recovery seminar tailored for your organization: Mueller Technical Research 21 Spring Lane Barrington Hills, IL 60010-9009 [phone] [phone] Fax Internet: [e-mail] Web: http://www.upgradingandrepairingpcs.com http://www.m-tr.com Scott's premiere work, Upgrading and Repairing PCs, has sold well over 2 million copies, making it by far the most popular and longest-running PC hardware book on the market today. Scott has been featured in Forbes magazine and has written several articles for Maximum PC magazine, several newsletters, and the Upgrading and Repairing PCs Web site. Scott has recently completed two new works, Upgrading and Repairing Laptops and Upgrading and Repairing PCs Video Training Course, and is hard at work on Upgrading and Repairing Servers, also a new, first-of-its-kind book. If you have suggestions for the next version of this book, any comments about the book in general, or new book or article topics you would like to see covered, send them to Scott via email at [e-mail] or visit http://www.upgradingandrepairingpcs.com and click the Ask Scott button. When he is not working on PC-related books or on the road teaching seminars, Scott can usually be found in the garage working on several vehicular projects. He is currently working on a custom 1999 Harley-Davidson FLHRCI Road King Classic and a modified 1998 5.9L (360ci) Grand Cherokee—a hot rod 4x4.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1608 pages
• Publisher: Que; 15 edition (August 12, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789729741
• ISBN-13: 978-0789729743
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.4 x 2.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #923,779 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #91 in Books > Computers & Technology > Hardware > Maintenance, Repair & Upgrading

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51 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute classic..., January 7, 2004

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Thomas Duff "Duffbert" (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Upgrading and Repairing PCs (15th Edition) (Upgrading & Repairing PC's (W/DVD)) (Hardcover)

If you know me, you'll know that I'm a software guy. Specifically, I'm a software developer. I don't want to build my own PC. I want to turn it on and have it work. When it doesn't work right, I start to get really nervous. I hate to open up the case and look inside any of my PCs. And I can't tell you how many times I've seriously hosed my machine by attempting to install a new piece of hardware or memory. Bottom line... I don't like hardware.

So why am I reviewing a book on PC hardware? Because fear is no excuse for not understanding the device that allows me to make my living. Having worked a little with this book, I can honestly say that I would have saved myself a lot of grief if I knew about this book earlier. It is amazing.

Scott Mueller covers everything you can think of that you'll find in your PC. He also includes both the "what is" and "how to" details of the devices. For instance, you can read the chapters on magnetic storage and hard disk storage to understand how a hard drive works. He then takes you from the theoretical knowledge to the practical information on how to install a new hard drive in your PC. When I had to install a hard drive about a year ago after a drive failure, I truly had no clue as to what I was doing. While I was successful, it was an extremely stressful experience. If I had been able to review these chapters beforehand, I could have actually learned from the process instead of running scared through the ordeal.

In this 15th anniversary edition, there is also a DVD with two hours of video related to the book. I haven't had the time yet to review the DVD material, but I have no doubt that it will be of the same high quality as the book.

Conclusion
You need to have this book if you ever plan on replacing or fixing anything on your PC. I wish I had known about this book sooner... You don't see many tech books that get past their first edition, much less the 15th edition. This is a classic.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Includes more than 100 pages of new material, October 8, 2003

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This review is from: Upgrading and Repairing PCs (15th Edition) (Upgrading & Repairing PC's (W/DVD)) (Hardcover)

This 15th Anniversary edition of Scott Muller's Upgrading And Repairing PCs includes more than 100 pages of new material, covering the latest in motherboard and processing technologies. There are reasons why Scott Mueller is a bestselling PC hardware author whose "how to" manual for dedicated, do-it-yourself computer users has been a standard and a staple of personal and professional computer repair/upgrade reference collections! An accompanying DVD includes more than two hours of high quality video playable on both standalone DVD player and DVD-ROM. 1608 pages. User Level: All Users

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It just gets better each time., September 27, 2003

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Michael J Woznicki "Michael J Woznicki" (Holland, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Upgrading and Repairing PCs (15th Edition) (Upgrading & Repairing PC's (W/DVD)) (Hardcover)

Ever heard the saying "It gets better with time", this could be the phrase to describe the 15th edition of one the best compture technician manuals ont he market today. Scott Mueller has released the latest edtion of Upgrading and Repairing Pcs and this is the best one so far.

I have using theses books since the 9th edition and each time the new book is released I find even more information and always find the book(s) to up to date and techincally accurate. I am teaching a class in A+ and this is certianly a reference to have handy for the students.

There is over 1500 pages covering it all, from Motherboards, CPUs and memory to storage, networking and troubleshooting and just aout everything in between. Mueller has become a highly repsected and trusted author and this book bears out his great technical abilities. Anyone in the technical field needs to have this book as part of thier library.

The techincal details, from pinouts to slot pin breakdown is nothing short of amazing and the amount of information is simply incredible. There is information in this book that I have not found anywhere else.

While this book is not written to any single certification exam, you will find that it is tailored to the A+ or CST exams. The book includes a DVD with 2 hours of video clips to learn from. The only thing I found was that if you don't own a DVD player you have top go tot he website to download the clips, I think a CD should be included for those without DVDs.

Overall this is simply a must have for any and all field and depot technicians. Those working a Help Desk shouldhave a copy at the right hand. Mueller has simply outdone all other editions.