Ten Fixes To Try on Your PC

10 Possiable money-Saving Tips

1. Does your Pc Shut down by itself, sometimes at intervals of half a minute, and sometime half an hour? Does it hang for no reason whatsoever? did you run a virus scan and nothing showed up?

A/1 . instead upgrading other components , think about the power supply. if it not powerful enough, it could cause several other problems. So, get the power supply checked. In some cases, a capacitor or some other component may have blown, in which case you can get it repaired. otherwise, too you may consider buying a better, more powerful power supply

2. Overheating is frequent problem, which mostly occurs if you are using your Pc during hot weather without any air conditioning. Do not rush to upgrade.

A/2. Overheating can be fixed in many ways. the most common solution is to add an extra fan, while ensuring that there is sufficient space for ventilation inside the cabinet, Remove wire clutter. if need be buy a larger.

3. Here is a tip that may not apply right now, but could affect a futur upgrade: remember that hard disks are mechanical devices, and most often require an upgrade or repair when the mechanical system fails. remember that the mechanical system can fail due to overheating ?

A/3. One of the tip are get a hard disk fan this can be mounted either directly above the hard disk or right in front of it.if it is mounted above the hard disk, it will take up the space of one IDE drive, but it will be worth it

you can do another simple thing to increase the life of you hard disk go to power saver setting in widows and set the hard disk to turn off after 3,5,or 10 minute of idling ,this has the negative effect of your sometime needing to wait a while for the for the hard disk to turn back on, but your disk will be happy you did it it will not spin nearly as much.

4. Some people tend to rush in to upgrade if the net runs slow, Don't do that ! it could just be a modern problem. take your modem to technician and see it can be repaired ,there are several factors involved, including your phone line -ask you technician to do some troubleshooting, you might need to get a new modem, but that is better than going for a more expensive upgrade.

A/4. Of course do away with modem altogether and go modem on you end at all just a network card, some require that purchase an good adsl modem .

5. Get RAM! get RAM! Plz If windows run slow, you may be tempted to think of a system upgrade. you might think you computer just isn't powerful enough to run window Xp .

A/5. In Such case , that window Xp requires a lot of RAM to function properly Buy more RAM, The more RAM you give Xp , the Happier it will be- to a point. in case, 512mb RAM will do just fine, and upgrading to 1 gb won't help at all. in other case, a 1 GB upgrade is called for. tell your vendor what program you run, and abut the configure of the rest of you system so he can determine how much RAM you need.

6. If you have an old computer and the display doesn’t look too good , with colors showing up weird and such ,don’t rush to get you monitor changed!!

A/6. It could be just a problem with the display card. Try it first- get a cheap, perhaps second-hand, PCI display card,. This should cost hardly a couple of hundred rupees, so it’s worth trying out even if it does turn out that you need a new monitor.

7. If you have desktop speakers with old computer, and are wondering whether the sound can be improved- don’t first think of getting a new speaker set. Changing the sound card might help and you can keep your old desktop speakers.

A/7. Check if you have an ISA sound card. These are outdated the good news is that PCI sounds are very cheap, and also you can get second- hand ones very easily. Doing this minor upgrade might have a big impact on sound your get form your old speakers of course we’re not talking great sound here just decent, will-do sound.

8. If you PC seems too “weak “for Window XP, then RAM apart, you might feel you need a complete system overhaul. Don’t do that – try a faster hard disk speed affects the system speed tremendously.

A/8. Than doesn’t apply if you have a really old Pentium 2 system –in this case, a faster hard disk won’t help you’ll need to do a fuller upgrade.

9. DO a thorough virus scan.

A/9.You may not know it, but spy ware and virus may be slowing down you system .if necessary, get a professional virus scan done, this is really simple fix that you must try before going in for anything else, in the case of your PC seeming slow there are plenty of stories of the people who upgrade their processor only to find that their system was still slow- and cause turned out to be virus on the hard disk. (Anti virus just use avira , AVG , kasparsky )

10. Constant reboots require? Don’t upgrade your computer just upgrade the OS.

A/10. You may be one of those swear by window 98 and are unwilling to accept the fact that 98 is simply speaking, ancient .get out of that mindset- upgrade to in window XP. Window XP is stable in fact wonderfully, operating system. You could find that the no. of times you need to reboot will drop by 90 cent when you get XP! But you also need to keep in mind that upgrade to XP could mean that you’ll need more RAM. But it will be worth it