Provides you with specific maintenance and repair techniques that will save time. Includes details on how to use test equipment, troubleshooting tips, guidelines, and methods, and a chapter on flat-panel displays.

This book can save you the money and hassle of computer monitor repair by showing you how to fix it yourself. Technicians, hobbyists, and entrepreneurs will benefit from this book, which takes the reader through the basics and on to troubleshooting circuits.

This manual contains computer monitor troubleshooting tips to help the reader tackle day-to-day monitor repair issues on site in an efficient manner. It provides specific detail and instruction, directing your repair efforts with intensive description and step-by-step guidance from point to point inside the monitor. The accompanying CD-ROM contains: 1999 Windows Tech-tips Demo Monitor Repair Database; ECG cross reference database with versions for Windows and DOS; a complete listing of M.I. Technologies Inc monitor schematics; CAP-Wizard (in-circuit capacitor tester); and over 3500 troubleshooting and repair tips listed by manufacturer name and model number featuring major names.

In this best-selling manual for electronics technicians, students, and advanced hobbyists, you will find complete up-to-date information on diagnosing and repairing today's popular impact, thermal, inkjet, and electrophotographic printers. With the help of new flowcharts and technical illustrations throughout, you will learn to troubleshoot and solve 150 specific printer problems, while gaining the experience to resolve many other malfunctions on your own. Complete coverage of printing under Windows and Windows 95 is included, as well as a coupon for a companion disk filled with essential troubleshooting tools.

Offers a Hands-on Troubleshooting, Servicing, & Repair Guide

The Y2K bug can wreak havoc on the healthiest PC, so be prepared for the millennium glitch, and virtually any other computer foulup ù with Stephen Bigelow's massive Troubleshooting, Maintaining & Repairing PCs, Millennium Edition. Ideal for both technicians and power users, the latest edition of this bestselling guide gives you the tools and know-how to diagnose and fix 2,000 PC problems from Y2K mishaps to crashed hard drives to blank monitor screens and much more quickly, easily, and with total cconfidence. It's jam-packed with 1,600 pages of the most experienced hands-on help you can find for resuscitating most any PC or peripheral: 8-bit to 64-bit CPUs...memory...destops, towers, and notebooks...keyboards...printers...monitors...mice... modems...PC cards...motherboards...video and sound boards...you name it! You also get a "Symptoms-at-a-Glance" section that demystifies hundreds of common PC malfunctions...scores of POST and diagnostic codes to help you idenify the most obscure flaws...helpful Web site listings for instant online assistance...even a challenging Technician's Examination that serves as a perfect tune-up for CompTIA's career-boosting A+ Certification exam. BIG BONUS! Over 150 hand-picked shareware PC diagnostics and utilities on CD-ROM plus PC technician's primer ù to help you set up your workbench.