� Excessive heat or cold
� Excessive dust buildup on the PC parts,
� Magnetism interference;
� Viruses, Spywares, Malwares either downloaded from the Internet, shared via email or from storage media shared between different computers;
� Static electricity shocks or power surges;
� Spilling liquids onto the PC
� bumping or dropping the PC
� Wrong or forceful insertion/ removal of hardware
� Wrong hardware driver installed
� Outdated or faulty hardware
Did one of your hardwares suddenly fail? I’ve experienced a lot of hardware crash in the past. I remember one time, my personal computer would boot but the monitor is black. I checked the monitor but it is working perfectly. What I did is open up the CPU and inspected my video card. Upon opening the CPU, I noticed the great amount of dust inside it. If this happened to you too, here are some things you could do:
• Remove your hardware from the motherboard. Get a pencil eraser and run it through the tip connecting the hardware to your motherboard (the golden thing).
• Clean the inside of your CPU with a brush and a vacuum cleaner. Just be careful.
After doing the above, my video card worked again perfectly.
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If you are running out of space on your hard disk and your personal computer is slowing down, you might want to consider cleaning your computer’s hard disk thoroughly. No, you don’t have to actually reformat your hard disk. Let me introduce to you CCleaner, a freeware that can do wonders on your personal computer. CCleaner removes unused and temporary files on your personal computer that will allow Windows to run faster. This will not only make your personal computer faster but will also free up your disk space tremendously. As I’ve said this is a freeware and you could download them on www.ccleaner.com.
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AMI BIOS Beep Codes
Phoenix BIOS beep codes
They are series of beeps separated by a pause,
A 1-2-1-2 series would be like :
beep *pause beep beep *pause beep *pause beep beep
Award BIOS beep codes:
Observe the problem
Is it a Hardware problem or a software problem? What we’re you doing while the problem occured? Did this happen in sometime recently? Did you added or installed something in the computer? Did you install a new software ? Did you add a new Hardware device? When you restarted your computer, Did the problem go away?
Define the problem
Try to find out what is the cause of the problem by checking out possible problems by the process of elimination narrowing it down until you eventually find it. Does the problem occur in one program, but not others? If the computer is networked, is the problem system-wide, or specific to that machine? Does it happen every time, or only under certain circumstances? Do you get error messages that give you clues or tell you outright what the difficulty is?
Solve the problem
First , try by restarting the computer, then check the power cable connections. Listen to the beep the computer makes during boot up. Try to look for error messages
Before you tackle a more serious approach to troubleshooting check your computer’s warranty date. If it’s still under warranty contact the manufacturer for repairs, solutions and if need be replacement.
It has happened with Vista and is seemingly also being built into Windows 7, the ability to downgrade should the user deem it too stubborn or complicated to use. The beta-testing of Win 7 is already underway and it seemingly looks nice yet Microsoft is again taking no chances by building into the OS a downgrade feature should it suffer a catastrophic failure. Operating system’s are normally better as time goes by and as with Vista, time was not on it’s side that people simply refused to bite into their many advantages (if that’s what they called them). Read more »
If your PC’s not powering up, don’t immediately panic and run around the room while you’re shouting and tearing your hair out (obviously I’ve done this before). Here are some basic tips on how to seal with this problem before you call your local (and expensive) PC repair man.
Check if your PC’s plugged in. Yes, boys and girls, there’s been a lot of situation where the the computer gets unplugged when your electric-bill-crazy-mom would pull it out while you’re away from keyboard to save on the utility charges. Or you forgot that you pulled it out last night.
If it’s plugged, and the switch is in “on†position, check the following:
If that still doesn’t work then it’s time to open up your CPU. If your motherboard LEDs don’t light up then your power supply’s dead. However, if LEDS are lighting up then your Power button might be the culprit. If that’s the case you may need to replace the entire front bezel.
Hard drivesare quite reliable, so reliable today that they have gotten cheaper and better, lasting longer than their predecessors. Along with the many innovations, they have also grown in terms of data density or the amount of data that can be stored within the same footprint. Having a Pentium 4 that you bought a couple of years back might still be working right but as you may have noticed, it may have gotten a tad bit too slow. Read more »
Wanting to have a faster Windows XP boot up is something most PC users want, but seems they can’t have. With the advent of trojans and its dastardly ilk, it’s making the OS boot up even slower. What can you do?
According to the experts the best way to go about this is to find the source:
Legitimate programs usually put an icon in the SysTray, next to the clock on the Windows Taskbar. Right-clicking an icon will often let you tell the program not to load. However, Microsoft provides msconfig, a good utility for controlling how Windows starts up. To run it, click Start, select Run, type msconfig in the box and click OK. The Startup tab on the far right lists the programs being loaded, but it’s worth looking through the other tabs. Microsoft has a trouble-shooting guide to using it: search Google for Q310560.
More info here.
