Free Hardware Books

Free book: Upgrading and Repairing PCs 16th Edition

Free book: Upgrading and Repairing PCs 16th Edition

Upgrading and Repairing PCs (6th-16th editions) book is available in pdf format free of charge from informIT. Upgrading and Repairing PCs is the runaway best-selling PC hardware book of all time and one of the best-selling computer books ever! This 16th Edition is loaded with the most up-to-date hardware information anywhere.

The Idiot’s Ultimate Guide To Building Your Own Computer

The Idiot’s Ultimate Guide To Building Your Own Computer

Free 50 page eBook “The Idiot’s Ultimate Guide To Building Your Own Computer” from MakeUseOf.com. So you have decided to build your own computer. You are in the right place and I will try and walk you through each step from planning to powering on and back to troubleshooting.

How To Build A Computer

How To Build A Computer

You can download or read online “How To Build A Computer” from Wikibooks. Building a computer can be a very rewarding experience. Since you’re reading this, you’re probably thinking about building your next computer instead of buying one pre-built. This is a very viable option these days and can bring many benefits; you can learn a lot about computer hardware by building one, you get a totally personalized computer, you can choose better components and you may be able to save some money and have fun.

USB in a NutShell

This free online book “USB in a NutShell: Making sense of the USB standard”. Starting out new with USB can be quite daunting. With the USB 2.0 specification at 650 pages one could easily be put off just by the sheer size of the standard. This is only the beginning of a long list of associated standards for USB. There are USB Class Standards such as the HID Class Specification which details the common operation of devices (keyboards, mice etc) falling under the HID (Human Interface Devices) Class – only another 97 pages. If you are designing a USB Host, then you have three Host Controller Interface Standards to choose from. None of these are detailed in the USB 2.0 Spec.

The Secret Guide to Computers

The Secret Guide to Computers

“The Secret Guide to Computers” is the world’s only complete computer tutorial. It covers everything important about computers!

How It Works…The Computer

How It Works...The Computer

“How it works: the computer” by David Carey. This book was published in 1971, and the revised edition was published in 1979 by Ladybird Books.