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TECHNICAL TIPS
IF YOUR PC STARTS, BUT WINDOWS IS UNSTABLE
Make sure you have the latest updates from Microsoft. They are constantly supplying free fixes for bugs and vulnerabilities. (Click on linked name or copy and paste url below)
Microsoft Windows Update: http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp
Windows XP Service Pack 2: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/default.mspx
IF YOUR PC STARTS, BUT THEN LOCKS UP
1) Buy a can of compressed air. Open the computer cover. Look for accumulated dust.
The cooling fans in your computer can’t keep it at the proper operating temperature if there’s a layer of dust holding in heat. Once the heat causes the power flow to overheat, then your computer locks up. Take the computer outside before you blow off the dust - you’ll be amazed at how much dust got accumulated.
2) Check the fans. If they don’t run, neither will your computer.
The main fan is inside the power supply, close to where the power cord attaches to your computer. This fan ventilates through a grill you can see on the back of your box without taking the cover off. IF YOU FEEL COMPETENT, TAKE OFF THE COMPUTER’S METAL COVER AND LOOK INSIDE. There’s another fan near the CPU on the mother board - if it fails, your CPU can burn up unless your computer has a safeguard. The CPU fan must be replaced immediately.
3) Make sure the slots on the back of your computer where the monitor and sound cards, etc. hook up are all closed off.
Proper airflow and cooling of the computer is harder for the fans to achieve otherwise.
IF YOUR PC WON’T POWER ON AT ALL
1) Check to see that the power cord is plugged in.
Your computer might have been moved by someone else without your knowing it and the power cord slipped out of the outlet - or out of the computer. Make sure it is pressed in far enough to get electricity.
2) Check the AC Voltage Switch on the back of the computer.
This switch selects North American voltage of 115V or European voltage of 225V. If it is on 255V the system won’t get enough power and so it won’t power on. Turn off the power switch, and slide the Voltage switch back to 115V.
3) If not the first two options above, call “The Computer Guy”
IF YOUR COMPUTER IS SICK, DON’T GIVE UP! CALL THE COMPUTER GUY!
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