Computer Configuration and Maintenance Technology

Author: Min Dong
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features:
1. Comprehensive Content: This book explains the hardware, software, upgrades, and maintenance of microcomputers from the perspectives of selection and repair, rather than assembly.
2. Rich Case Studies: Each chapter includes common and typical computer and repair cases to fully develop students' abilities to analyze, judge, and solve computer issues.
3. Strong Practicality: To reinforce the knowledge learned and enhance students' ability to solve real-world problems, especially hands-on assembly and repair skills, each chapter includes a certain number of exercises and experimental content.
4. Convenient for Teaching: The book comes with complete teaching slides, as well as materials on maintenance, diagnosis, testing, and hardware simulation, to facilitate classroom teaching and improve teaching effectiveness.
Focusing on microcomputers, this book covers everything from selecting equipment or components to the daily use, maintenance, and upgrades of software, with an emphasis on system applications. It introduces the basics of microcomputer systems and selection/repair, hardware selection, assembly, and repair; software installation and maintenance; and software/hardware upgrades. It comprehensively covers all aspects of microcomputer hardware and software knowledge, selection points, upgrades, and maintenance.
It primarily includes:
- System architecture, performance indicators, and an overview of maintenance and repair;
- Basic knowledge, selection points, assembly processes, common faults, and repair cases for hardware components such as CPU, motherboard, storage systems, display systems, sound systems, input systems, and network devices;
- System BIOS settings, hard disk preparation, system software installation, debugging, and maintenance; common tests, maintenance, and optimization software installation and usage;
- The basics of microcomputer upgrades, upgrades for branded computers, and upgrades for assembled computers.
Each chapter includes corresponding explanations of common and typical faults and repair cases, as well as a certain number of exercises and experimental content, to fully develop and enhance computer users' thinking, analytical, judgmental, and problem-solving abilities, as well as hands-on skills.
Based on the new developments and applications of computer software and hardware technology, this book has a novel approach, detailed content, and a strong practical focus. It can serve as a textbook for computer majors and related disciplines at ordinary universities, vocational and technical colleges, and undergraduate/graduate levels in various universities. It can also be used as a basic computer education textbook for other disciplines at universities, as well as a training textbook for various training schools or institutions, and a reference book for computer enthusiasts and microcomputer users.