List of Figures

Chapter 1: PC Architecture

Figure 1.1: External ports

Figure 1.2: Typical PC components

Figure 1.3: Components on a motherboard

Chapter 2: Motherboards, CPUs, and RAM

Figure 2.1: AT form factor

Figure 2.2: ATX form factor

Figure 2.3: Dual Inline Pin Package (DIPP)

Figure 2.4: 30-pin SIPP

Figure 2.5: 30-pin SIMM

Figure 2.6: 72-pin SIMM

Figure 2.7: 168-pin DIMM

Figure 2.8: SO-DIMM

Figure 2.9: Motherboard with an OPTi chipset

Figure 2.10: ISA 8-bit and 16-bit expansion slots

Figure 2.11: PCI bus connector

Figure 2.12: An AGP slot on a motherboard

Chapter 3: Disk Drive Storage

Figure 3.1: Removing an expansion card

Figure 3.2: A typical floppy cable

Figure 3.3: Cabling internal SCSI devices

Chapter 4: Printers

Figure 4.1: The inner workings of an EP printer

Figure 4.2: Formation of images in a dot-matrix printer

Figure 4.3: A typical ink cartridge (size: approximately 3 inches by 11/2 inches)

Figure 4.4: Selecting the printer driver to install

Chapter 13: Installing and Upgrading Your OS

Figure 13.1: FDISK menu