Solving PC Errors

PC errors can occur at any time—during system boot up before Windows even starts loading, while Windows is loading, and while your computer is operational. These errors occur due to many different reasons. Let’s investigate some of the common causes of these errors and what you can do to prevent or fix these errors.

Errors At System Boot Up

PC errors during system boot up usually occur if there is some problem in the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) settings. BIOS is a chip on your PC’s motherboard. This chip comprises commands and instructions that help in operating your PC.

Note: To view the BIOS settings, press the Del or the F2 key—whatever your PC supports—at the boot screen.
These errors may also occur if essential hardware, such as the mouse or keyboard, are not connected to the PC or are malfunctioning.

Errors When Windows is Loading

If your system freezes while Windows is loading, an error in the registry is most likely the cause. An error in the registry may occur if:

• There is some problem with the application or update that you have installed before restarting your PC.
• A hardware device or its driver has gone faulty.
• You have recently performed system changes that are either not working properly or are not compatible with your hardware. For instance, you may change the display settings to something your monitor does not support.
• A recently installed driver or software is conflicting with already existing software on your PC.

If the problem has occurred soon after you made a configuration change, try to restart your PC with the last known good configuration. To do this, restart your PC and press F8 as soon as the boot screen disappears—and before Windows starts loading. Use our Down Arrow key to move down and select the “Last Known Good Configuration” option.

If the problem has occurred soon after you have installed an application or have updated a driver or software, then you may try to uninstall this application or update and reinstall it once again. However, if the error is not allowing you to reboot in Normal mode, you will have to start in Safe Mode. In Safe Mode your system loads only the essential services and processes; this makes the uninstallation process simple and efficient. After you have uninstalled the software, it is recommended that you use a registry cleaner tool to scan and remove any related left over or erroneous entry from the registry. Once the uninstall is complete, you may restart your PC in Normal mode to reinstall your software.

If the above two steps do not fix your PC, then you may choose to perform System Restore—a feature in Windows XP enables you to rollback your PC to last known good configuration in case of a problem. You can start System Restore from Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore.

Errors While the System is Running

Many types of errors may occur when your system is functional. For instance, an OCX error may occur, if an OCX file is incorrectly registered or is corrupt, and a code 10 error may occur due to problems with a device driver.

To prevent these problems:

• Ensure that your system is updated with latest software patches, updates, and service packs.
• Regularly scan and repair registry errors—you may use a registry cleaner tool to perform the task quickly, easily, and efficiently.
• Perform regular antivirus and antispyware scan to ensure that your PC is free from malware, such as viruses, spyware, and Trojans.
• Keep your hard disk free from errors and unwanted files, by using the tools such as Disk Cleanup and Disk Defragmenter.

Above all, to prevent PC errors, be a vigilant user, be careful about the Web sites you browse, email—and email attachments—you open, and software you install on your PC. Additionally, perform regular preventive PC maintenance and ensure yourself a healthy, error-free PC.

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Everyone wants to sell something or another. With the Internet it has become much easier to find places that you can sell a product and not have to pay to advertise it locally in a newspaper.

With sites like Craigslist and Gumtree you can now post your ad for free and sell whatever you want. Those sites make it easy for you to select a location and put your ad and then sit back and wait for someone to email you or call you. Millions of people visit those ads on a monthly basis and are becoming every more popular. So if you have items that have been laying around forever and you just don’t know what to do with them now you have a place to sell them.

Also, if you are a small business and hampered with advertising rates you need to also utilize Craigslist and Gumtree to post about your business services and what you can provide for others. Posting is still free and still seen by millions.

Of course there are ways to make all of these postings even easier now than before with software programs such as EzAdSuite and EZGumTreePoster . With these programs you can setup your advertising campaigns and not have to deal with the manual way of posting.

Don’t miss out on the free ways to sell items and to advertise your services. They are out there and it’s just a matter of utilizing them.

Dan
Computer Medics of Northern Virginia LLC

New store online for all your computer parts Nationwide Computer Parts. Fast shipment, low prices.

Check out the site and see for yourself.

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Dan
Computer Medics of Northern Virginia LLC

We now have a new product on the market called PC Dice. PC Dice™ is a new novelty product that has techs realizing that with using PC Dice™ they actually stand a chance at resolving problems. These simple yet entertaining dice offer possible solutions to your everyday problems.

Not only are these dice for technicians but for everyone and anyone that uses a computer. Perfect for that person that you just don’t know what to get for a gift. Perfect for those techs that work for you.

Dan
Computer Medics of Northern Virginia LLC

New site up and running called “The Force Field” owned by Rick Savoia. If you are a tech or business owner you have to hit this site. 

Some of the things on this site are:
Forums
Podcast (Rick makes the Podcast himself)
Marketplace
News Feeds
and more….

Check it out at TheForceField.net

Daniel Hand
Computer Medics of Northern Viriginia LLC
www.cmonova.com

Ok this one is for the techies that visit the site. This book was written by Chris Leeds who I have corresponded with on many occassions. Very informative book, and a ton of information.

Read more about it here:

Daniel Hand
Computer Medics of Northern Virginia LLC
www.cmonova.com

With Microsoft saying early 2008 is the ending of XP being distributed alot of customers are buying pc’s with Vista on them. Personally I would still buy the XP Home (Professional) pc myself.

I actually think Microsoft will rethink their stopping of Windows XP for many reasons. First and foremost “people want XP”……Vista has not turned out exactly like they wanted.

Should you decide to go wild and buy a pc with Vista on it just make sure it is loaded with memory or you will regret it down the road.

Daniel Hand
Computer Medics of Northern Virginia LLC
www.cmonova.com

Been awhile since making any postings. Have been extrememly busy with the store and with the recently published book Computer Repair Business Lessons Learned .

But, now things are getting back to normal. We are in the process of getting our paperword completed and will be opening our training center. We will be offering certification training for Comptia exams i.e. A+, Net+, Security+, and Microsoft certification training. Hopefully this will be happening very soon.

Dan
Computer Medics of Northern Virgnia LLC

Well our book is amost ready to be made for distribution. In starting our business we realized how hard it actually is to find anyone willing to divulge information about the business. If you ask for documents for examples typically you get reasons why they won’t give them to you. If you ask qeustions you get vague answers.

So with all that in mind I decided to write my own book titled “Computer Repair Business Lessons Learned“ and it covers everything about starting a business and running the daily operation of it. Some of the Lessons are:

Proposals
Maintenance Contracts
Customer Service

If you are interested in seeing how we do it then check out Computer Repair Business Lessons Learned