PC hacks
Intel-and AMD-powered PCs--which account for more than 90% of all personal computers--are powerful and expandable, and operating systems like Windows and Linux do a great job of running well on this hardware. But to maintain maximum stability and predictability, these operating systems don't p...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sebastapol, California :
O'Reilly Media
2005.
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| Edición: | First edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627144806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- PC Hacks; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Preface; How to Use This Book; How This Book Is Organized; Conventions; Using Code Examples; Disclaimer; How to Contact O&Reilly; Got a Hack?; 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; 2. Basic System Board Setup; 11. Step Away from the Legacy Device; 12. Manage Devices
- 2.3.2. Unnatural Resources2.3.3. Logically Speaking; 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; 3. CPU Hacks; 19. Get More Power; 20. Identify Your CPU; 21. Which CPUs Are Hackable?; 3.4.2. AMD CPUs; 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; 4. Memory Hacks
- 30. Install More RAM31. Recognize Memory Limitations; 32. Install the RAM Your Operating System Needs; 33. Tame the Windows 95 and 98 Cache; 34. Manage the Paging File; 4.6.2. Windows NT, 2000, XP, 2003; 4.6.3. Hacking the Hack; 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; 5. Disk Hacks; 40. Partition and Format Wisely; 5.2.2. The Different Filesystems; 41. Determine Your Filesystem; 42. Create a New Partition with NT, 2000, XP, and 2003
- 43. Create a New Partition with PartitionMagic44. 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 Happens6. 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; 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
