The Ultimate Computer Repair Guide

Legal Disclaimers......Page 2
Components That Make Up Your Computer......Page 6
How To Add Random Access Memory To Speed Up Your Desktop......Page 8
Install More RAM In Your Laptop For More Speed......Page 11
How to Easily and Safely Install RAM......Page 13
How To Troubleshoot RAM Memory......Page 15
Memory Testing Software Utilities......Page 17
Get More Computer Storage By Installing A Larger Hard Drive......Page 19
Here\'s How To Replace A DVD Drive In Your Laptop......Page 21
Installing A Sound Card The Easy Way......Page 27
Installing The Sound Card......Page 28
Replace The System Unit Cover......Page 30
Can You Install A New Sound Card In Laptops?......Page 32
Installing a USB Sound Card in Your Laptop......Page 33
Quick and Easy Sound Card Problem Solving......Page 34
General Computer Troubleshooting......Page 36
How To Revive A Dead Computer......Page 42
Make Sure You Have Enough Memory......Page 45
Uninstall Those Unneeded Applications To Free Up Memory......Page 46
Patch Your Computer To Keep It Updated......Page 47
Make Sure Your Antivirus/Internet Security Programs Run at Night......Page 48
Stop Unneeded Startup Programs......Page 49
Remove Those Unneeded Files......Page 51
Stop File Indexing......Page 52
Turn Off Animations......Page 53
Turn Off Fancy Desktop Backgrounds, and Screensavers......Page 54
ReadyBoost for Vista Speeds Boot Times and Other Operations......Page 55
Change Your PC Use Habits......Page 56
Have Your PC health Assessed for Free at PC Pitstop......Page 57
How To Upgrade Your Graphics Card......Page 58
Installing The Graphics Card In The System Unit......Page 59
AGP Graphics Card......Page 60
Nothing on the Monitor......Page 61
Monitor Works But Poor Display......Page 62
Easily Installing Your New Hard Drive......Page 64
General Hard Drive Troubleshooting......Page 69
Check Drive Cables and Connections......Page 70
If the Drive Boots but Hangs Up at Boot?......Page 71
Your Hard Drive may have an IRQ Conflict......Page 73
Your Hard Drive Device Drives Causing Problems......Page 74
What To Do When Windows Won\'t Boot......Page 75
Making a Windows XP Bootable Floppy, if You Still Have a Floppy Drive......Page 76
If The PC Won\'t Boot Past Windows......Page 77
Here\'s How To Replace A DVD Drive In Your Laptop......Page 79
How To Repair Cable, DSL, And Dial-Up Modem Problems......Page 82
A Direct Subscriber Line ( DSL ) Modem......Page 83
An Older Dial-Up Modem......Page 85
Tips On Surviving An Operating System Crash......Page 88
So Just What is a Hard Drive Crash?......Page 89
Here\'s How You Can Recover From a Hard Drive Crash......Page 92
Following These Steps To Recover Your Hard Drive......Page 93