Scott Muellerrs"s industry-leading classic Upgrading and Repairing PCs has taught millions of people how to diagnose, repair, and upgrade their PCs. Scottrs"s books are used by thousands of hardware professionals, enthusiasts, and technicians worldwide and is found on the shelves of technicians at Intel, Dell, and Maximum PC. Now, Scott has created the ultimate companion to his highly successful series. Step-by-step instruction from the world-renowned PC hardware expert! Hardware 101! Scott shows you how to choose the right hardware for your new rig! Learn to decipher the technobabble used to describe PC hardware Watch as Scott shows you how to build a new PC. See how every part is installed! Watch Scott install the motherboard, processor, memory, hard drives, DVD drives, audio card, video card, and networking adapter See how to properly power and cool your new PC Tame those vexing case-front USB, Firewire, and audio connectors! Once your new PC is built, learn how to choose the right BIOS settings Watch, listen, and learn as world-renowned PC hardware expert Scott Mueller walks you through the inside of your PC. System Requirements: Operating System: Windows XP or Vista Multimedia: Windows Media Player Computer: DVD drive or set-top DVD player Scott has taught millions of beginners how to build PCs. Scott takes you under the hood to show you exactly how your PC works and how to build a PC right, the first time!

Scott Mueller is president of Mueller Technical Research (MTR), an international research and corporate training firm. Since 1982, MTR has produced the industry's most in-depth, accurate, and effective seminars, books, articles, videos, and FAQs covering PC hardware and data recovery. MTR maintains a client list that includes Fortune 500 companies, the U.S. and foreign governments, major software and hardware corporations, and PC enthusiasts and entrepreneurs. His seminars have been presented to several thousands of PC support professionals throughout the world.

Scott personally teaches seminars nationwide covering all aspects of PC hardware (including troubleshooting, maintenance, repair, and upgrade), A+ Certification, and data recovery/forensics. He has a knack for making technical topics not only understandable, but entertaining as well; his classes are never boring! If you have 10 or more people to train, Scott can design and present a custom seminar for your organization.

Although he has taught classes nearly nonstop since 1982, Scott is best known as the author of the longest running, most popular, and most comprehensive PC hardware book in the world, Upgrading and Repairing PCs, which has not only been produced in more than 18 editions, but has also become the core of an entire series of books.

Scott has authored many books over the past 20+ years, including Upgrading and Repairing PCs (1st through 18th and Academic editions); Upgrading and Repairing Laptops (1st and 2nd editions); Upgrading and Repairing Windows; Upgrading and Repairing PCs: A+ Certification Study Guide (1st and 2nd editions); Upgrading and Repairing PCs Technician's Portable Reference (1st and 2nd editions); Upgrading and Repairing PCs Field Guide; Upgrading and Repairing PCs Quick Reference; Upgrading and Repairing PCs, Linux Edition; Killer PC Utilities; The IBM PS/2 Handbook; and Que's Guide to Data Recovery.

Scott has produced several video training packages covering PC hardware, including a six-hour, CD-based seminar titled Upgrading and Repairing PCs Training Course: A Digital Seminar from Scott Mueller. Scott has also produced other videos over the years, including Upgrading and Repairing PCs Video (12th Edition); Your PC: The Inside Story; as well as 2+ hours of free video training that were included in each of the 10th and 12th through 18th editions of Upgrading and Repairing PCs and in several editions of Upgrading and Repairing Laptops and Upgrading and Repairing Windows.

Scott's premiere work, Upgrading and Repairing PCs, has sold well over 2 million copies, making it by far the most popular and longest-running PC hardware book on the market today. Scott has been featured in Forbes magazine and has written several articles for PC World magazine, Maximum PC magazine, the Scott Mueller Forum, various computer and automotive newsletters, and the Upgrading and Repairing PCs website.