Credits; Preface; Chapter 1. Basic System Board Hacks 1. Lock
Others Out of Your Computer; 2. Bypass the BIOS Password; 3.
Recover a BIOS That Won't Boot; 4. Boot Faster; 5. Display a
Boot-Time Graphic; 6. Configure Boot Device Order; 7. Set Your
Clock Back; 8. Avoid the Legacy USB Option; 9. Hack an Unhackable
BIOS 10. Upgrade Your Flash BIOS; Chapter 2. Basic System Board
Setup 11. Step Away from the Legacy Device; 12. Manage Devices 13.
Configure Serial Ports; 14. Configure Parallel Ports 15. Configure
Sound Cards; 16. Configure SCSI Host Adapters 17. Configure Network
Cards; 18. Reeducate Plug and Play Chapter 3. CPU Hacks; 19. Get
More Power; 20. Identify Your CPU; 21. Which CPUs Are Hackable?;
22. Which System Boards Are Hackable?; 23. Determine Your CPU
Speed; 24. Keep It Cool 25. Control CPU Clock Speed from the BIOS;
26. As Goes Voltage, So Goes Speed; 27. Set the CPU Multiplier; 28.
Unlock Your CPU Multiplier; 29. Check the Vents; Chapter 4. Memory
Hacks 30. Install More RAM; 31. Recognize Memory Limitations
32. Install the RAM Your Operating System Needs; 33. Tame the
Windows 95 and 98 Cache; 34. Manage the Paging File; 35. Manage
Windows System Resources; 36. Force Windows 98 and Me to Swap Less;
37. Pin the Kernel in RAM; 38. Speed Up Your RAM 39. Enable Memory
Interleave for Via Chipsets; Chapter 5. Disk Hacks; 40. Partition
and Format Wisely; 41. Determine Your Filesystem; 42. Create a New
Partition with NT, 2000, XP, and 2003; 43. Create a New Partition
with PartitionMagic; 44. Merge Partitions with PartitionMagic; 45.
Convert FAT to NTFS 46. Create or Delete NTFS Partitions from the
Recovery Console 47. Fix the Master Boot Record on FAT Partitions;
48. Fix the Master Boot Record on NTFS Partitions; 49. Fix the
Partition Boot Sector on NTFS Partitions; 50. Fix GRUB or LILO Boot
Problems 51. Format Your Disk; 52. Change Logical Drive Letters 53.
Restore DOS Bootability; 54. Rescue a Blown 2000 or XP
Installation; 55. Fix the Windows 95 File-Caching Bug; 56. Avoid
the Delayed-Write-Caching Blues;; 57. Detect Drive Failure Before
It Happens; Chapter 6. Disk Drive Performance Hacks 58. Choose the
Fastest Hard Drive; 59. Use an 80-Wire Cable 60. Upgrade Your IDE
Interface; 61. Kick It Up a Notch with Serial ATA; 62. Get the
Fastest IDE Driver for Intel Chipsets 63. Get the Fastest IDE
Driver for Via Chipsets; 64. Speed It Up with RAID; 65. Speed Up
DOS with SMARTDRV; 66. Speed Up Windows with VCACHE; 67. Linux's
Drive Performance Booster; Chapter 7. Video Hacks; 68. Get off the
PCI Bus; 69. Upgrade from Built-in Video; 70. Don't Expect Much
from AGP Aperture Size; 71. Choose the Correct AGP Mode; 72.
Overclock Your nVidia Adapter; 73. Overclock Your ATI Radeon; 74.
Overclock Anything; Chapter 8. I/O Device Hacks; 75. Let Windows
Tell You About I/O Card; Xonflicts; 76. Break the Rules with LPT
Ports; 77. Break the Rules with COM Ports; 78. Rewire Your COM
Ports; 79. Boost COM Port Performance; 80. New Uses for an Old
Port; 81. U
Jim Aspinwall has been the Windows Helpdesk columnist and feature editor for CNET.COM and author of three books on PC maintenance. A resident of Campbell, California, Jim is also an amateur radio operator, electronics technician, and OSHA certified tower climber, maintaining radio transmission sites in northern California.
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