Friday 21 September 2012

PC Troubleshooting

These are some help files to help troubleshoot a Windows PC. DO NOT e-mail me or phone me to troubleshoot your computer. These are basic troubleshooting steps to help you identify your software or hardware problems.

Five Troubleshooting Steps:

Symptom Recognition - recognize the symptoms of your problem.


Symptom Elaboration - elaborate on your problems.


Action Plan - develop an action plan and list all possible causes.


Isolate Fault - is it hardware or software. Review all possible software issues before jumping to any conclusions. Employ binary search method or process of elimination.


Repair, Functionality and Logging - repair the problem, verify the functionality of your computer, log exactly what the symptons were and what you did to co

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