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Comp TIA+ Study Guide

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I wasn't sure where to stick this post so I hope this is in the right forum (probably not, sorry)

I'm looking to buy a good techy book on how to troubleshoot, build and repair pcs/laptops. I've got Scott Mueller's 'Upgrading and Repairing PCs" but 90% of it is mostly made up of history and superfluous details about cpus et al.

What I'm after is an up to date Comp TIA+ study guide book or similar but I'm not sure which to get aside from the latest publication of course.

All I can find are Certification 'All-In-One' Exam guides of 2 years older or more, or those dealing with security issues

I was hoping someone could point me in the direction of a good up to date (as recent as possible at least) book on how to build/repair pc/laptops and the basics of setting up and maintaining a network (nothing CCNA or the like). Preferably CompTIA+ as I might have missed something somewhere, but any decent 'how to' book would suffice.

Thanks very much
 
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@ Richdog: Yes, I mean the CompTIA A+ certificate. I was under the impression that things changed quite a lot in the pc industry in 2 years. Do we know how often the CompTIA A+ study books are published/updated?

@ Superpatsy: Are you talking about the Microsoft certified books in newtworking?

@ Coupe69: Yes I'm looking to sit the CompTIA A+ certificate exam at some time in the future. Thanks for the link
 
Do we know how often these CompTIA A+ study guides are republished? Is it something like once every couple of years, because if that's the case then perhaps I should hold out until the next one is due out. The last was 2012

@ Superpatsy: Thank you but I'm after pc repair and stuff more than networking right now. I believe the networking section in the CompTIA A+ studty guide will suffice for what I require
 
This may sound a bit strange but, the exam study guide book obviously focuses on the exam, and I do intend taking it some time in the future, but is there a CompTIA A+ book out there that's just a study guide, a 'how to' repair book?
 
Ploppy2k3 said:
if I post a like to Amazon or Waterstones etc someone will pop saying "competitor link" so here is the ISBN no# 0789750007
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To be honest, I have that book and it's about 95% way too detailed. It's priceless if you want to know how the cpu industry looked in 1995, or how AMD and Intel have gone head to head and all that, or LED backlit tech., or the working innards of a hdd, but the actual trouble shooting and repairing is very minimal I found.

It deals with way too much superfluous detail at the very minute level that you'll hardly ever (if ever) encounter with fixing pcs
 
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Thanks all very much for the advice

I'm probably going to go for either the 2012 CompTIA or the 2011 Dummies

You know the CompTIA A+ one, it says exam guide; is that any good for an in depth look at pc repair? What I mean is, the book looks to be more geared toward the exam and not a general purpose education in pc repair
 
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