Book Errata
Mike Meyers' A+ Guide to Managing and Troubleshooting PCs, 2nd Edition, by Mike Meyers
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pp. xx-xxi, The second and third sentences under "About Instructor Resources" should be deleted and replaced with the following: All instructor resources can be downloaded from the online learning center. Test Bank files are available from the Online Learning Center for instructors. An instructor resource kit on CD-ROM is not available with this edition and Test Bank files are not available on CD-ROM.
p. 126, third paragraph, third sentence. The word "bytes" should be "megabytes." The sentence should read, "So 400 MHz multiplied by 8 is 3200 megabytes per second.
p. 158, The text that reads "Compare the older Award screen in Figure 5-17 with the modern Award CMOS screen in Figure 5-15" should read "Compare the older Award screen in Figure 5-17 with the modern Award CMOS screen in Figure 5-14."
p. 164, The sample beep codes that are listed as on the CD in the \SOFTWARE\SOUNDS folder did not make it to the CD. You may download these files from:
http://www.totalsem.com/support/files/award_no_video.wav
http://www.totalsem.com/support/files/award_no_ram.wav
p. 166, Fifth paragraph, should read as follows (changes in bold):
When you first power on the PC, the power supply circuitry tests for proper voltage and then sends a signal down a special wire called the power good wire to awaken the CPU. The moment the power good wire wakes it up, every Intel and clone CPU immediately sends a built-in memory address via its address bus. This special address is the same on every Intel and clone CPU, from the oldest 8086 to the most recent microprocessor. This address is the first line of the POST program on the system ROM! That's how the system starts the POST.
p. 173, Question 2, Answer D has the CPU and power good reversed, so should read "Power good, CPU, POST," etc.
p. 174, Question 13 on the Multiple Choice Quiz is confusing. The correct answer is “A. In the BIOS” as the setup program is stored with the BIOS in the ROM chip, but a more precise answer choice would be “In the ROM chip,” since the question seems to refer to the physical location of the program.
p. 274, The top part of the graphic in Figure 9.7 shows all the fluxes in the same orientation. This is incorrect. The graphic should look like this: http://www.totalsem.com/files/AIO6th_F09-07.jpg
p. 288, In Figure 9-25, the pointers are reversed. In SATA, the power connectors are larger than the data connectors.
p. 295, Figure 9.20 text should read RAID 0 (striping), rather than RAID 1 (striping).
p. 303-304, The graphics on pages 303 and 304 are transposed. Fig 9-50 should be Fig 9-48, Fig 9-48 should be Fig 9-49 and Fig 9-49 should be Fig 9-50.
p. 448, Three instances of "disk" should change to "disc" in the "No Boot Device Present . . ." section
p. 468, The Windows key-C shortcut should be deleted from the list.
p. 469, The third sentence under the "Tech Utilities" section should be altered as follows (changes in bold):
This section shows the seven most common locations in Windows where you can go to access utilities: right-click, Control Panel, Device Manager, System Tools, command line, Microsoft Management Console, and Administrative tools.
p. 487, Last paragraph before the "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT" section should say five root keys rather than six.
p. 505, Second bullet should read Encrypting File System rather than Encrypted File System.
p. 579, Table 15.1 shows the Recovery Console as not available in Windows XP Home. That entry should say yes, not no.
p. 588, The last sentence before the "Attempt to Restore" section should end with simply Windows rather than Windows XP.
p. 594, In the third paragraph, the word "undelete" should be replaced with the word "uninstall."
pp. 696-697, The sentence describing the audio connectors needs to read as follows, with changes in bold:
On most systems, the main stereo speaker connector is green, the line-in connector is blue, and the microphone connector is pink.
p. 751, The projects should be 19.1 and 19.2.
p. 805, The text "Max 1024 PCs per MAU" at the bottom of Figure 21-32 is meaningless and should not be in that graphic.
p. 817, 202.34.16.11 should be 11001010.00100010.00010000.00001011 in binary.
p. 859, The Key Term Wireless Equivalent Privacy (WEP) should say Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP).
p. 909, The text that reads "Just keep in mind that the computer can't be too old . . ." should read "Just keep in mind that the computer can be too old . . ."
p. 975, In section 2.1 under Domain 2.0-Operating Systems, the middle item references chapters "13, 15" this should read "10, 15".