Troubleshooting

· You are not the first one to face the trouble.

· Some simple solutions.

– Check connections.

– Ensure that cards are inserted properly.

– Clean the devices.

– Check if minimum things needed to boot are present - motherboard, processor, a full bank of memory, videocard and a drive to boot.

· The PC doesn’t start at all

– Count the number of beeps.

– No beeps - possible problem with BIOS or motherboard.

· The PC starts - partially

– No signal on the monitior.

– Video signal present with error mesage.

– OS starts.

– OS does not start - Hard-disk problem.

· Video

– No video at all.

– Snow on the screen.

– The picture is horrible. Bad colors, dots, and streaks.

 – Random, changing characters on the screen.

– The screen rolls upward or to the side.

· Hard Drive

– Not bootable : A Hard Drive must be formatted and partitioned before it can be used.

– Not detected by the BIOS - Check on a different m/c.

∗ It works fine.

∗ It does not work.

· Others

– System forgets time/settings