Rescued by Upgrading Your PC

by Kris Jamsa

Provides detailed instructions for planning computer upgrades, working with the equipment, and installing new motherboards, other hardware, and software improvements. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 188413324X
• ISBN13: 9781884133244
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Jamsa Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 10.4"

Customer Reviews

cheaper than college book store

I totally think this book is very dated but my technical college uses it for industrial computer course. If you need it for class get it but other than that check the date on any computer book.......I'm thinkin of upgrading my pc to a superfast 486 processor...LMFAO

The Best Upgrading Book You can Buy

I owned the first edition of this book and decided to upgrade. That was a good choice. The discussion of USB-based devices is very valuable and explanation of Firewire helped me pick a video camera.This is the easiest book on PC upgrading money can buy. A 10!

Very easy to follow

As a "computer senior citizen" -- most of this is new. This book helped me install more RAM and a new disk drive. Step by step pictures made it very easy. My kids were impressed!

Made it very easy to update my system

My system was SLOW. Over the weekend, I followed step-by-step instructions to add RAM, defragment my disk, reorganize my file, and fine tune a couple settings. In a few hours, my system was running much faster. I'm a novice. The book made these intimidating operations VERY EASY.

What's the Most That Could Upgrade

Make existing capabilities better by adding disk-caching software and more RAM, defragmenting the hard disk, doubling disk storage capacity for compressing the hard disk, restarting your system daily, and upgrading to the latest version, especially with a computer less than two years old. Install and plug in to a surge suppressor as the first upgrade. Add a math coprocessor to run complex spreadsheets and math-intensive programs such as computer-aided design. Save money by replacing hardware: only hardware technicians know how to repair most PC hardware devices. Make repairs by beginning with the cheapest, easiest fix and working to the hardest and most costly. Think about basic physics for how computers work, and the problem area may show up. Find an area user technical support group for common fixes to common mistakes. These are some of the many clearly illustrated and reader-friendly comments author Kris A. Jamsa shares in RESCUED BY UPGRADING YOUR PC. His book stands out in a crowd, sharing concerns and information with Wayne N. Kawamoto's BUILD, UPGRADE AND REPAIR YOUR PC NETWORK ON A SHOESTRING BUDGET, Mark Minasi's THE COMPLETE PC UPGRADE AND MAINTENANCE GUIDE, and Aubrey Pilgrim's UPGRADE AND REPAIR YOUR PC.