Servicing Personal Computers, 3rd Edition

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Fault diagnosis

In the two previous chapters we have considered the operating principles of personal

computers and the test equipment available for diagnosing faults that may arise within them.

In this chapter we shall continue by describing some typical fault diagnosis procedures which

bring together many of the principles and techniques previously introduced.

Unfortunately, personal computers are, by their very nature, somewhat diverse and hence

the procedures described must be rather more general than specific. Readers should,

however, be able to apply these techniques to those items of equipment with which they are

currently dealing - ...