Monday, October 21, 2013

Tech Tip Of The Day -- Difference Between Hardware & Software

Your computer seem to be malfunctioning, running slow, programs crashing or the infamour BSoD. Is it your computer hardware or computer software? This can be difficult to figure out since hardware and software problems can have the same behavior on your computer.

Slow Computer issues can be fixed easily, remove recently installed software to fix the problem. Also check how much available RAM and Hard Drive space your computer has too many files and programs installed can cause slow computer performance. Hardware problems don't tend to lead to a slow computer. But there are some occassions where it is the hardware; CPU overheating and the computer downclocking itself to reduce the computer heat.

BSoD don't happen as often as they use to due to the stability of Windows now compared to that of the earlier versions of Windows. If you are encountering frequent BSoD there is a chance that hardware is failing or newly installed software is having issues. TO check to see which is the cause for this issue if you have installed new piece of hardware to your computer remove it. Also if you installed new software uninstall the software to see if that fixes the BSoD issues that you have been experiencing.

When Hardware starts to Fail

  • Hard Drive - files may become corrupted and have long time gaps to loading files and programs
  • CPU - computer not booting, overheating, possibly blue screen under load of an application
  • RAM - application crashes, blue screens, file corruption
  • Graphics Card - graphical errors rendering different aspects on the coputer
  • Fans - cause computer to overheat, leading to problems with CPU and graphics card since the computer is exceeding functional operating heat
  • Motherboard - these are extremely tough to diagnose, BSoD are frequent and 
  • Power Supply - this is also tough to diagnose, the power supply might not be delivering the correct power to the needed device of the computer. 

A sure fire way to fix a hardware or software problem is to reinstall a fresh copy of windows or repair your current copy of Windows. 

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