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14 | (8) |
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22 | (1) |
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23 | (6) |
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29 | (2) |
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Basic Electricity and the Power Supply |
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31 | (22) |
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The Basics of Electricity |
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31 | (9) |
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40 | (2) |
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42 | (8) |
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Troubleshooting Power Supplies |
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50 | (3) |
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You'll Never Have a Better Friend Than Your Mother(board) |
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53 | (44) |
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Navigating the Motherboard |
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54 | (14) |
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68 | (18) |
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86 | (10) |
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Winding Down on Motherboards |
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96 | (1) |
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97 | (58) |
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Transistors, Binary, and Logic Gates |
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97 | (3) |
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The Micro-Components of the CPU |
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100 | (10) |
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110 | (4) |
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114 | (7) |
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121 | (2) |
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Advanced CPU Capabilities |
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123 | (5) |
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128 | (23) |
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151 | (4) |
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Your Computer and Its Memory |
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155 | (48) |
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Quantifying and Qualifying Memory |
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156 | (2) |
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158 | (3) |
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DRAM Timing and Memory Types |
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161 | (9) |
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170 | (23) |
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Module Sizes and Banks of Memory |
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193 | (4) |
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197 | (4) |
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201 | (2) |
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203 | (36) |
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Why Do We Have an Expansion Bus? |
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203 | (2) |
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The Functions of the Expansion Bus |
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205 | (18) |
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The Evolution of the Expansion Bus |
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223 | (16) |
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239 | (22) |
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239 | (10) |
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249 | (6) |
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255 | (2) |
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257 | (4) |
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Working with Removable Disks |
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261 | (22) |
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261 | (9) |
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Other Removable Disk Drives |
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270 | (7) |
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277 | (6) |
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Hard Disk Drives: Keeping an Orderly Closet |
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283 | (60) |
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Basic Hard Drive Geometry |
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284 | (2) |
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How a Hard Drive is Constructed |
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286 | (6) |
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Hard Drive Performance and I/O Operations |
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292 | (3) |
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295 | (4) |
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299 | (3) |
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302 | (13) |
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315 | (16) |
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331 | (1) |
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The Nonstandard Interfaces |
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331 | (3) |
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334 | (9) |
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343 | (46) |
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344 | (7) |
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Techniques of Spanning Disks |
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351 | (11) |
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362 | (11) |
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373 | (4) |
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377 | (8) |
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385 | (4) |
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Your Computer and Graphics |
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389 | (36) |
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389 | (1) |
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Transistors, Binary, and Logic Gates |
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389 | (11) |
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400 | (24) |
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424 | (1) |
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Multimedia: The $2,000 Deck of Cards |
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425 | (46) |
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425 | (1) |
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Transistors, Binary, and Logic Gates |
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425 | (1) |
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The Components of Multimedia |
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426 | (13) |
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439 | (6) |
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The Descendants of CD-ROM |
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445 | (6) |
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451 | (5) |
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456 | (9) |
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465 | (6) |
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Printing Technologies: Getting It All on Paper |
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471 | (26) |
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472 | (6) |
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478 | (2) |
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480 | (7) |
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487 | (4) |
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491 | (6) |
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497 | (56) |
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498 | (3) |
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Peer-to-Peer or Client/Server? |
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501 | (2) |
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The Hardware of Networking |
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503 | (3) |
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506 | (15) |
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Some Other Basic Hardware for the Network |
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521 | (4) |
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525 | (4) |
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529 | (3) |
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Network Operating Systems |
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532 | (4) |
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Navigating the Hardware Protocols |
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536 | (6) |
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542 | (11) |
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553 | (40) |
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554 | (23) |
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Installing and Troubleshooting Modems |
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577 | (5) |
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582 | (3) |
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585 | (2) |
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587 | (3) |
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High-Speed WAN Connections |
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590 | (3) |
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593 | (62) |
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The Troubleshooting Method |
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593 | (5) |
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598 | (8) |
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606 | (3) |
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609 | (8) |
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Troubleshooting Hard Drives |
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617 | (8) |
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625 | (1) |
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Making Heads or Tails of a Motherboard Spec Sheet |
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626 | (4) |
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Troubleshooting Motherboard-Related Issues |
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630 | (3) |
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Diagnosing Processor-Related Failures |
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633 | (1) |
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Troubleshooting Floppy Disk Drives |
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634 | (5) |
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Troubleshooting Graphics Adapters |
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639 | (2) |
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Troubleshooting Keyboards |
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641 | (1) |
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Troubleshooting CD-ROM drives |
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642 | (2) |
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Troubleshooting the Expansion Bus |
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644 | (3) |
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647 | (2) |
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Figuring Out the I/O Ports |
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649 | (2) |
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Troubleshooting Power Supplies |
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651 | (2) |
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653 | (2) |
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655 | (38) |
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Disk Structure and Data Recovery |
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656 | (14) |
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Initiating Disaster Recovery |
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670 | (20) |
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Fault Tolerance, Data Recovery, or Disaster Recovery? |
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690 | (3) |
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Here a Tweak, There a Tweak |
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693 | (26) |
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694 | (1) |
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695 | (6) |
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701 | (1) |
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702 | (16) |
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718 | (1) |
| Appendix A: Building a Computer from Scratch |
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719 | (32) |
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Sorting Out the Inventory |
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719 | (16) |
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735 | (16) |
| Appendix B: The PC's Somewhat Checkered History |
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751 | (20) |
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Primitive Computing Methods |
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751 | (3) |
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754 | (2) |
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756 | (5) |
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The Computer as We Know It |
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761 | (1) |
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762 | (3) |
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765 | (4) |
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769 | (2) |
| Appendix C: Off to a Good Start |
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771 | (22) |
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Who is Comp TIA, and Why Should I Get Certified? |
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771 | (4) |
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775 | (4) |
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How your Computer Eats Data -- One Byte at a Time |
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779 | (11) |
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790 | (3) |
| Appendix D: BIOS Beep Codes and Error Messages |
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793 | (18) |
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794 | (4) |
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798 | (4) |
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802 | (9) |
| Appendix E: Recommended Technical Resources |
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811 | (6) |
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811 | (1) |
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812 | (2) |
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814 | (3) |
| Appendix F: Abbreviated List of Manufacturers |
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817 | (14) |
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Motherboard Manufacturers |
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817 | (6) |
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823 | (1) |
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823 | (2) |
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825 | (1) |
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826 | (1) |
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827 | (3) |
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830 | (1) |
| Glossary |
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831 | (42) |
| Index |
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