Book Errata
Mike Meyers' A+ Guide to Managing and Troubleshooting PCs, by Michael Meyers and Scott Jernigan
Errata
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p. 21, Figure 2-3. Because of the similarity to the revised Figure 2-5, this figure should change. Here's a thumbnail of the correct image (click on it for a larger version):
p. 22, Figure 2-5 shows a pair of AMD CPUs, not the Intel CPUs referred to in the text and caption. The caption should read, "Two Intel Pentium 4 CPUs—1.4 GHz on the left and 1.6 GHz on the right." Here's a thumbnail of the correct image (click on it for a larger version):
pp. 74-75. The paragraph under the heading "Pentium—the Basis of Today's CPUs" needs a style edit and a portion of a sentence added. The paragraph should read as follows, with the substantive change in bold:
The Pentium is not a new chip—it's been around since 1990 and the last versions of the Pentium chip were discontinued in 1995. Newer CPUs—with names like Pentium II, Pentium III, and Pentium 4—all use the many components that you've just seen on the original Pentium CPU. With the exception of the 64-bit data bus and 32-bit address bus—features shared by every subsequent 32-bit processor—almost all of these components have evolved considerably. We'll look at all the popular CPUs developed since the Pentium and see how they've built on this legacy CPU.
p. 115, Figure 4-16. Both the picture and the caption should change. The caption should read as follows (change in bold):
Here's a close-up of a 30-pin SIMM. The three chips show it has parity.
The picture should be a 30-pin SIMM, not an erroneously-labeled 30-pin SIPP (click for a larger version):
Figure 4-16
p. 229, Tech Tip. The chapter reference at the end should be to Chapter 8, "Power Supplies," rather than Chapter 10.
p. 321, fourth sentence under the RAID 5 section at the bottom of the page currently reads as follows:
RAID 5 storage is limited to the size of one drive.
It should read like this:
RAID 5 arrays effectively use one drive's-worth of space for parity.
p. 439. The Note in the center of the page should read as follows: "Windows NT fully supports FAT16 and NTFS. Windows 2000 and XP add support for FAT32 as well."
p. 457, second column, first two full sentences currently read as follows:
Windows NT fully supports FAT16, NTFS, and HPFS (for OS/2). Windows 2000 supports FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS.
These sentences should read as follows:
Windows NT fully supports FAT16 and NTFS. Windows 2000 and XP support FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS.
p. 459. Key Term Quiz question 1 should read as follows: "You can readily see programs running in the background by looking at the _________."
p. 488. The command listed for SETVER has a typo. It should read as follows: "DEVICE=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE"
p. 517. At the end of the paragraph numbered 1, there should be a forward slash before the checkupgradeonly command switch. The full command should be as follows:
d:\i386\winnt32 /checkupgradeonly
p. 519. In the XP Hardware Requirements chart, the fourth item in the Component column should be Video, not Network.
p. 509. The specifications for a CPU for a Windows 9x/Me PC should be as follows. Minimum: Intel Pentium or AMD K5. Recommended: Intel Pentium II or AMD K6 or faster.
p. 514. The specifications for a CPU for a Windows NT PC should be as follows. Minimum: Intel 80486 or AMD 486. Recommended: Intel Pentium or AMD K6 of 150 MHz or faster.
p. 515. The specifications for a CPU for a Windows 2000 PC should be as follows. Minimum: Intel Pentium or AMD K5 of 133 MHz. Recommended: Intel Pentium II or AMD K6 or later.
p. 818. In the second-to-last sentence of the first paragraph, the words “as shown in the figure” are incorrect; there’s no picture in this chapter of the MAC address printed on a NIC.
p. 823, Figure 23.21. The numbers got lost in the printing. Pin 8 is on the left; pin 1 is on the right:
p. 840, Table 23.2. The number of network addresses available for Class A networks is 126, not 129.