General PC hardware information

General information

Manufacturers

Hardware guides

General guides

FAQs

Motherboards

Special hardware topics

System design guides

Old guides

The information on those guides is a little bit old-fashioned, but can be still useful in some cases.

PC building and repair

Building tips

Fault diagnosing and system testing

Technical information

Performance testing and tuning

Major sites

BIOS settings optimization

Other links

Environmental effects

• Common Causes for Computer System Problems
• Computer EMI - computers can interfere with your radion and TV
• Dealing with Computer generated RFI/EMI
• Don't Lose Your Cool Over Fan Noise - fans play a vital role in cooling the components that give PCs their performance but make annoying noise
• How safe is your computer ? - hazards of using your computer
• Office Equipment Program U.S. ENERGY STAR PROGRAM
• MPR monitor magnetic and electric field limits - in Finnish
• The Silent PC - information how to make your PC more silent

Effects to user

• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome / Repetitive Strain Injury
• Dangers of ungrounded PC computer
• Reducing Eyestrain from Video and Compute Monitors
• Typing Injury FAQ - a guide to comfortable computing

General PC hardware document sites

• Hardware Docs - processors, chips, disk drivers, serial ports, modems, printers, cables, Amiga
• Microsoft PC Hardware Devellopment Info
• PC hardware documents in Finnish - motherboard, interfaces, chips, low level programming

Chips

Processors

• 80x86 index - programming, articles, books, bugs, hardware
• AMD-K6 Family
• First MMX PC Tests Reveal 20-Percent Performance Boost - PC Magazine Lab Report
• Intel FAQs
• Intelligent Firmware - information about memory access performance flaw in 80x86 processors
• Intel on-line documentation
• Intel Secrets - what Intel does not want to tell you
• MMX Technology - overview of new multimedia instructions and MMX application notes
• MMX Technology Architecture Overview
• Pentium®/Cyrix/AMD hintavertailu 1997 - CPU prices in Finland
• Pentium steppings - info on different Pentium version

Memory

• How sychronous memory (SDRAM) will impact top-level IS planning - white paper
• Memory Guide - to help you identify and describe your memory
• SIMM pinouts - 30 and 72 pin

Other chips

• 8259A Interrupt Controller on the PC - function and programming
• Enabling Gate A20 and Keyboard Reset and General Purpose I/O Options
• PC Chiplist - What is inside your PC ?
• Real Time Clock (RTC) MC 146818 of the AT - Some bits about programming the Real Time Clock of the AT and above

Gaming with PC

• Dave's Games Under NT 4.0

PC component price lists (prices in Finland)

• Suomalaiset atk-kuluttajamyyjät
• Tietokonehinnastot verkossa

Related pages

• Industrial PC
• PC interfaces