How To Fix Your PCPicture this-youīre playing a game and about to pull off a headshot when all of a sudden-BAM!-it crashes to the desktop without warning. Fine, maybe itīs sloppy code on the part of the developer, but then it happens again, and in a different game this time. Uh oh, somethingīs wrong.You decide itīs a sign that you should be finishing that PowerPoint presentation youīve been working on instead of playing games, so you ignore the issue. But as you load up the program, your PC restarts itself. What is going on? Do you have a bad stick of RAM? Possibly, or maybe your graphics card is dying. All you know is that something is ailing your PC, you just donīt know what.Well, we are here to help. Just as a doctor can run an X-ray to see a broken bone or an MRI to determine ligament damage, there are ways of determining if a component is toast. Hereīs how. RAMSymptoms: Random restarts; crashing to the desktop; blue screen of death errors; system wonīt boot; corrupted files; full amount of RAM is not being recognized.Diagnostic Testing: Microsoft includes a free memory testing tool in Windows, which saves you the hassle of burning a third-party utility to a bootable CD or USB drive. In Windows 7, click Start and type mdsched.exe, and in Windows 10 type Windows Memory Diagnostic in the search bar. Windows 7 gives you the option of running it now or the next time you restart your PC; choose the latter for best results. Depending on your PC and amount of RAM, this should only take a few minutes. Your system will reboot when it finishes. To view the results, load up the Event Viewer (Start > Run > eventvwr.exe), expand the Windows Logs folder, right-click System and select Find, and type MemoryDiagnostics-Results. If the report indicates any errors, rerun the test with just one stick of RAM installed, if thatīs an option. This way you can isolate exactly which memory module is bad. Hard DriveSymptoms: Makes a grinding or clicking noise; blue screen of ...
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