cable select drive setting, 50
cables
for CD-ROM drives, 101
for floppy drives, 45–46, 46
for IDE hard drives, 49, 51
for printers, 63
for SCSI hard drives, 53, 53, 55
caching, 246–248
Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) protocol, 75
cases, cleaning, 146
CD (Change Directory) command, 167–168
CD-ROM drives
cleaning, 146
installing, 101
Change Current Fixed Disk Drive option, 195
Change Directory (CD) command, 167–168
Check Disk utility, 263–265
chipsets, 21, 21
CHKDSK utility, 165
cleaning
components, 144–149
LCD panels, 119
cleaning step in laser printers, 61
Clipboard, 175
clock signals, 21
CLS command, 167
cluster sizes, 195
CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) chips, 2
for BIOS, 13–14
for floppy drives, 42–43
for IDE hard drives, 51
for parallel ports, 63–64
setting up, 109–112
collisions, 75
color settings, 126
COM ports, 128
command-line, 164
exiting, 169
navigating in, 167–169
starting, 167
Command Line window, 167
Commit Charge category, 33
Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor chips. See CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) chips
components, identifying, 3–8, 4–5
compressed air, 145
Computer Name and Administrator Password dialog box, 203
conditioning step in laser printers, 61
CONFIG.SYS file
for DOS memory, 26
for mouse, 129–130
MSCONFIG for, 266
Confirm Folder Delete window, 176
continuity checks, 152–154
Copy command, 175
copying files and folders, 175–176
covers, removing, 6–7
CPUs. See processors
Create Partition or Logical Drive screen, 196
Creating Shortcut window, 172
CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection) protocol, 75
Ctrl+Alt+Del keys, 167
Cut command, 175