Introduction

My System

PC Overview

History of PC's

Case

Electrical Components

Plugs & Sockets

Storage (Hard Drives,
     Floppy, CD/CDRW, 
     Tape, Zip and Jaz)

Diskettes - Floppies

Hard-drives  .  .  .

    IDE PATA vs SATA

    Speed vs the ATA version

    Partition Size Limitations

    Partition Size vs Cluster Size

    Recommended Cluster Size

    File Systems (FAT32 vs NTFS)

    FAT32 with 32k Clusters

    Disk Drive BIOS Limitations

    Disk Drive Partition Sizes

    Copy Hard Drive for Free

    NTFS and FAT32

    FAT32 to NTFS Conversion

    NTFS

    File Systems

    The 137 GB ATA Hard 
               Drive Limit

    RPM - is 15,000 Better ??

Hard Drive Installation (how to)

Enclosures - for External Drives

RAID - redundant Drives

Memory

Memory Modules

Addressing

BIOS

CPU

CPU Slots & Sockets

Motherboard

Chipsets

Interrupts

Buses

Expansion Cards

Modems

Keyboard

Mouse

Printer

Monitors - Part1

Monitors - Part2

The "GA's) - XGA, WXGA, etc

LCD Screens

Scanners

USB (Universal Serial Bus)

Firewire (IEEE 1394)

Compact Flash (CF) FAQ