| TROUBLE SHOOTING LINKS |
| These links are
primarily provided as reference to assist the students of
Data-Tech Institute's "Troubleshooting & Maintaining
PCs" and "Advanced PC Troubleshooting &
Upgrading Techniques" training courses. Visual Byte
is confident that anyone looking for more information on
PC hardware will find these pages to be useful,
informative and timesaving. Please feel free to send
suggestions of related sites that you feel would
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| New Technologies | |||
| ATX Mother Boards | New standardized form factor for motherboards that allows for easier expansion and assembly of your PC. | ||
| ATX Web Site | |||
| Universal Serial Bus (USB) | New cabling standard that provides an external bus for chaining up to 127 devices off of your PC. | ||
| USB Home Page | |||
| FireWire (1394) | Similar to USB, but supports extremely high speed data transfer that will support video and other multimedia devices. | ||
| Adaptec's FireWire FAQ | |||
| DVD | Digital Video Disk players are available now. DVD writers are still a little ways off. DVD may eventually replace CD ROM's. | ||
| DVD FAQ | |||
| MMX | Intel's new multimedia chips. | ||
| OVERVIEW of MMX | |||
| 56K Modems | Is it worth the upgrade? | ||
| No Hype 56k Site | |||
| 56k Modem Info Center | |||
| K56 Consortium | |||
| BIOS MANUFACTURES | |||
| AWARD | |||
| Award Software International Inc. | |||
| AMI | |||
| American Megatrends. | |||
| PHOENIX | |||
| Phoenix Technologies | |||
| Anti-Virus Utilities | |||
| Mcafee | Virus detector and cleaner. | ||
| Welcome To McAfee | |||
| FPROT | Virus detector and cleaner. | ||
| Data Fellows World-Wide Web Server | |||
| Dr. Solomon's | Virus detector and cleaner. | ||
| Dr. Solomon's - Virus Alerts | |||
| VSUM | A virus reference database. | ||
| VSUM Web Site | |||
| National Computer Security Association | Interesting site about various computer security issues. | ||
| NCSA Main Menu | |||
| Hard drive Utilities and Manufactures | |||
| Norton's | Everyone doing trouble shooting should have a copy. | ||
| Symantec Norton Utilities | |||
| Ontrack | Hard disk utilities. | ||
| Ontrack Data Recovery. Software. Services | |||
| Seagate | Hard disk manufacturer. | ||
| Welcome To Seagate's SeaNET | |||
| Micropolis | Hard disk manufacturer. | ||
| Micropolis Corporation Home Page | |||
| Maxtor | Hard disk manufacturer. | ||
| Maxtor's Home Page | |||
| Quantum | Hard disk manufacturer. | ||
| Quantum Disk_Jumper_Menu | |||
| Conner | Hard disk manufacturer. | ||
| Conner-Service & Support | |||
| SyQuest | Removable drive manufacturer | ||
| SyQuest Technology Incorporated | |||
| Iomega | Manufacturer of backup devices. | ||
| Iomegazine | |||
| SCSI & EIDE | |||
| SCSI-2 Spec | Technical specification. | ||
| SCSI-2 Specification (Draft X3T9.2 Rev 10L) | |||
| SCSI FAQ | General FAQ's on SCSI | ||
| SCSI FAQ part 1 of 2 | |||
| SCSI FAQ part 2 of 2 | |||
| EIDE FAQ | General FAQ EIDE | ||
| The Enhanced IDE-Fast-ATA-ATA-2 FAQ | |||
| SCSI Terms | Seagate provides a glossary of SCSI terms. | ||
| SCSI Terms | |||
| CD ROM Drives | |||
| CD ROM Info | CD Info center | ||
| CD Info | |||
| CD ROM Specs | Listings of most CD ROM drive specs. | ||
| CD ROM Drive Specifications | |||
| Communications Software & Modem Manufactures/Info | |||
| Stroud's | Great site with reviews of many Internet programs. | ||
| TUCOWS World Wide Affiliate Site Locations! | |||
| Microsoft's IE | Microsoft offers all kinds of free Internet software | ||
| Internet Explorer Home | |||
| Modem FAQ | FAQ for 28800 to 56K modems. | ||
| Modem FAQ | |||
| Supra | Modem manufacturer. | ||
| Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc. | |||
| Hayes | Modem manufacturer. | ||
| Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc. | |||
| USRobotics | Modem manufacturer. | ||
| US Robotics Home | |||
| Also see Modem Drivers | |||
| Memory Chips | |||
| SIMM FAQ | Memory upgrade FAQ. | ||
| SIMM Frequently Asked Questions | |||
| RAM Guide | Reference on RAM memory. | ||
| The RAM Guide | |||
| Kingston Memory | Third party manufacturer of memory modules for most systems. | ||
| Kingston Technology Corporation | |||
| Power Links | |||
| APC | American Power Conversion's all about power. | ||
| ALL ABOUT POWER | |||
| Printers | |||
| Hewlett Packard | Laser and ink jet printer manufacturer. | ||
| HP Printing and Imaging | |||
| Canon | Ink jet printer manufacturer. | ||
| Canon Computer Systems, Inc. | |||
| Video | |||
| FAQ's | Usenet FAQ's on video. | ||
| Video FAQ's | |||
| Diamond Multimedia | Video card manufacturer. | ||
| Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc. | |||
| ATI | Video card manufacturer. | ||
| ATI Technologies Inc. On-Line | |||
| Matrox | Video card manufacturer. | ||
| Matrox Graphics Home Page | |||
| NEC | Monitor manufacturer. | ||
| WELCOME TO NEC ONLINE | |||
| MAG | Monitor manufacturer. | ||
| MAG InnoVision Home Page | |||
| Snappy (Still Video Capture) | Device used with video camera to capture still video images. | ||
| Snappy Central | |||
| Also see Video Drivers | |||
| Sound Boards | |||
| Creative Lab's | The creators of the Sound Blaster. | ||
| Creative Zone | |||
| DRIVERS | |||
| Modem Drivers | |||
| GVC | |||
| GVC Canada MODEM Drivers | |||
| Hayes | |||
| Hayes Windows 95 INF Files | |||
| Hayes FTP site | |||
| Supra | |||
| Diamond Multimedia Driver Index | |||
| USRobotics | |||
| USR TOTALService Online | |||
| Xircom | |||
| Xircom Drivers | |||
| VIDEO Drivers | |||
| ATI | Video card manufacturer. | ||
| ATI Driver Downloads | |||
| Avance Logic | Video chip manufactures. | ||
| Avance Logic Video Driver | |||
| Chips & Technologies | Video chip manufactures. | ||
| Chips & Technologies Graphics Drivers and Utilities | |||
| Cirrus Logic | Video chip manufactures. | ||
| Cirrus Logic Drivers & End-User Support | |||
| Diamond Multimedia | Video card manufacturer. | ||
| Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc. | |||
| Hercules | Video card manufacturer. | ||
| Hercules WWW Services -- Driver Library | |||
| Matrox | Video card manufacturer. | ||
| Matrox Graphics Home Page | |||
| Number Nine | Video card manufacturer. | ||
| Number Nine Drivers | |||
| OAK | Video chip manufacturers. | ||
| OAK download graphics area | |||
| S3 | Video chip manufactures. | ||
| S3 Drivers & Utilities | |||
| Trident | Video chip manufactures. | ||
| Trident drivers | |||
| Tseng | Video chip manufactures. | ||
| Tseng Labs Downloadable Software | |||
| Misc. Links | |||
| Usenet FAQ List | List of all FAQ's from the various Internet newsgroups. | ||
| List of USENET FAQ's | |||
| Tom's Hardware guide | Site dedicated to hardware information. | ||
| Tom's Hardware Guide | |||
| Home built FAQ | Home built PC FAQ. | ||
| Homebuilt FAQ | |||
| Computer Acronyms | Computer hardware related acronyms. | ||
| Acronyms from Hardware FAQ | |||
| Babel | Computer related acronyms. | ||
| BABEL A Glossary of Computer Related Abbreviations. | |||
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