How to troubleshoot RAM, Motherboard, CPU and Power Issues?
Your PC is rebooting, freezing, getting blue screen of death (BSOD), slows down over time and it's all happening randomly!
Normally, every time after you reboot your computer, it starts with a clean state of RAM and it works fine for a while until goes wrong and run into an issue later on.
- Remove the memory.
- Clean it using air compressor to remove the dust on it.
- Reinsert the memory and make sure to get it fully inserted.
- Run memory diagnostic utility to test it.
Do you hear beeps when you press power button on your PC? Operating System boots but can’t display anything on screen? Loud Fan, spins up and doesn’t slow down? Blinking indicator light LEDs?
- Usually this happened because CPU failure or other chip or aspect of the motherboard.
- It might also happened after you do upgrade for particular part of hardware / software.
- it cloud be a power surge/spike that damaged a component of the system.
- It could be an overheating issue because of a failure of your fans.
- it could be too much dust on any parts of the system that make it too warm or overclocking CPU .
- CPU needs replacement due to age as it starts not to work so well.
- Run CPU-Z utility to diagnose more.
- Clean it out from dust and dirt using compressed air.
- if it’s too loud, check what software is running, overclocking settings.
- Add a better graphics processor
Hard disk won’t spin? Fans won’t start? OS won’t boot? You’re not getting beeps?
- The cause of that is simply a faulty power supply.
- It might be a problem with the plug.
- Motherboard maybe is not fully connected to the power supply so that it can get power.
- it needs to be replaced due to age situation.
