How to Troubleshoot Your Computer
By Richard West
Every computer user should know at least a bit of computer troubleshooting. There will always come at time when you need to do some computer troubleshooting of sorts to meet an urgent need of your computer.
Before resorting to taking your computer to a computer repair guy or calling a technical support, it is best to try a few simple computer troubleshooting techniques first.
If you have been using your computer for more than a year now, it is expected that you know your computer well enough to be familiar with its basic information such as brand, model, processor, RAM or memory, operating system you are using and hard disk capacity.
You need to keep in mind that every detail prior to a computer error counts. Try to recall what you've been doing before the error occurred and note them down to make it easier for you and the technical support people to determine what troubleshooting strategy to use.
Computer Troubleshooting In Few Easy Steps
If you are quite familiar with your computer's performance, you will be able to determine the right button to push and the correct tweaking to administer. But for now, here are the basic easy-to-follow steps that you can routinely practice in case errors persist.
1. Try rebooting first your computer. It's no surprise that rebooting resolves most errors.
2. Update and run your anti-virus application. If you have an active anti-virus it will automatically update while you are online.
3. Determine the error- if it is a network, software of hardware problem. If you're having trouble accessing the internet, surely enough it is a network error. You can also check the network status or connectivity of your computer by looking at the network icon on your system tray. It should be active and both computer icons should have blue lights.
4. Check the cables that are attached at the backside of your computer tower. Sometimes we overlook this, but it happens, so it's best to check as part of this routine.
5. Check the hardware attached to the power supply. All should have their lights on when the power supply is turned on. If there are lights on, check if the computer will start and if sounds will come out of your speaker. If nothing happens, there could be a problem with your power supply. You need to replace you power supply and not use it to try and check your computer. Seek a computer repair man's help.
6. If your computer hangs up on you, reboot your system and immediately press F8 to put rebooting into safe mode. Uninstall the last application you installed to see if this is causing the problem.
If in case still nothing happens to your computer, you may seek the help of a computer repair man or an online technical support. You can supply your findings to them to make it easier for them to do computer troubleshooting.
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