TROUBLE-SHOOTING and REPAIRING Personal Computer Hardware


"Trouble-Shooting" is the term used by "computer geeks" for determining the causes of problems in your computer, and often includes repairing the PC or computer.

Trouble-shooting most often is just an attempt to make a PC or computer work in response to an irate user's call. In essence, trouble-shooting may be loading a piece of software, or replacing a whole hardware sub-system.

Let's look at some of the items you may have to troubleshoot, and some tools you will need to trouble-shoot, and possibly, replace a component.

  1. Trouble-Shooting Tools
  2. Just Plain DOS or Other Software Problems.
  3. Hardware Problems
  4. Video System - monitor and video card.
  5. Hard Disk system - hard drives and even disk controllers.
  6. Memory Problems

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