Upgrading & Fixing Laptops DUMmIES

Chapter 12 Chapter 12: Seeing the Light: LCDs and Video ........................................................... In This Chap ...

The one thing that isn’t so great: They can crack, crumple, scratch, freeze, or break off. They’re relatively fragile to begin ...

Look familiar? They should be if you use a cell phone or an instant messenger to exchange little tidbits of useless information. ...

Taking a Brief Aside into Technology ........................................................ Quickly, let me explore just enoug ...

The LCD’s controller for a modern active-matrix LCD addresses a specific row and then a specific column; the pixel at the point ...

Holding a Bad Video Display Card ............................................................. Depending on the design of your l ...

indicators; check the instruction manual for any special details about your particular model that might give you a clue about th ...

Letting your little light shine ............................................................ Let the machine fully boot. If you ...

Expand the + mark to the left of Display Adapters and read the report under Device Status. If the report reads “The device is w ...

194 Part III: Laying Hands on the Major Parts ...

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In this part... I n the early days of computing people thought it was magical when they could connect two machines (at a pace th ...

Chapter 13 Chapter 13: Networks, Gateways, and Routers .......................................................... In This Chapte ...

of IBM’s house-sized monsters. Olsen’s belief was that all processing could be centralized, and those relatively few people who ...

The first step: making your computer network-capable. For that you need one, two, or all three of the following pieces of hardwa ...

The Basics of an Ethernet ........................................................................... I can get deep into the te ...

If you are merely adding a new or upgraded laptop to an existing wired net- work, all you need on the hardware side is the NIC a ...

Although the market offers some very capable software firewalls,I am not a fan of the concept. They work in much the same way as ...

Chapter 14 Chapter 14: Feeling Up in the Air.................................................................................. I ...

add one for $50–$100. That capability permits you to communicate with exist- ing wireless networks in homes and offices, as well ...