Troubleshooting

By AmulRajI

1. Disk Boot Failure

Solution
1. Ensure that your system BIOS lists the hard drive as one of the boot devices. In addition, set the boot order in BIOS to allow the hard drive to become the first boot device
The hard drive is unplugged

2. Ensure your hard drive is recognized during system post. If it is not, check your cables and connections

1. Disk boot failure

If you have recently installed a new hard drive, CD/DVD drive, check the jumpers on the drives. In some cases, with older IDE cables, you cannot use the Master and Slave jumper settings and you must use Cable Select.
Disk dumb for removing disk bad sector

Repeated Restarting
Problem

Over dust RAM problem Processor is not working properly Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties. 2. Click the Advanced tab. 3. Under Startup and Recovery, click Settings to open the Startup and Recovery dialog box. 4. Clear the Automatically restart check box, and click OK the necessary number of times.

No operating System found

Check hard disk OS having or not Check BIOS whether the hard disk is enable or not (advanced)

SMPS problem

Remove SMPS from computer Take one cable wire Set the wire in 4 and 5 pin in Power connector( green and black ) Whether the fan is working or not if fan is rotating means SMPS is good otherwise the SMPS is not Good so we must change SMPS new One

No booting

Check Check Check Check Check

Power Switch power in motherboard RAM SMPS Power cable

Remove CMOS password

Remove CMOS battery from that location Short CMOS shorter by

It simply means to reseat the CMOS, take the CMOS jumper out, turn on the machine for a sec, turn it off again and reseat the jumper, OR if the jumper is on a port with 3pins and the jumper is 2pins wide then move it to the other position and boot for a sec then put the jumper back the way it was. You will need to set a few BIOS options after this

FAN is first 5 sec working

Problem Fan is first 5 sec is rotating but not display in monitor Solution 1. Remove Everything 2. Clean everything 3. And take the motherboard, RAM, SMPS, monitor. 4. Now plug one by one check whether it is working or not. If it is booting no problem 5. If not booting means check SMPS, RAM, Processor, Monitor Cable.

LAN Problem

Check cable

Same device cross cable Difference device straight cable

Check IP Address (same network) Type ping

If Request timed out that IP is not in Network If Destination host Unreachablehost is not connected Check IP address Check firewall is on/off

Solution

Destination host unreachable

The possible fix for the ICMP error message "Destination Host Unreachable" are:
1. Make sure that local host is configured correctly 2. Make sure Destination Computer/Device is up 3. Disable the Firewall and check for the issue.

4. Perform a tracert to the destination IP and check where the problem lies

Request Timed out

destination device is not connected to the network, is powered off not configured correctly It could also mean that some intermediate device is not operating correctly invalid IP address or that the system is not on the same network as the remote host intermediary device is not configured correctly

Beep sequence

No beep no power supply 1 beep normal booting 2 beep CMOS Error 1long 3 short beep video Error 133 Keyboard Error 1333Memory Error (depend upon manufacturer) ACER no sound Continues beep Memory error 3 long beep Motherboard problem

NTLDR file is missing

OS CD Give first Repair Then give 1 for winodws location Then type administrator password Then search CD drive letters Then c:\copy source destination Reboot the computer

Driver problem

Reboot Press f8 go to safe mode or last known good configuration Then login as a administrator and then reboot Start windows normal

After connecting a monitor, the picture looks bad:

Start the system in Safe Mode by rebooting the system and pressing the F8 key once per second while it is rebooting. Once you see the Windows Startup menu, select Safe Mode from the listed options. press Enter. Go to Start>> Right click My Computer>> Properties>> Hardware tab>> Device Manager button. Click the plus (+) symbol next to the Monitors entry to expand it. Once expanded, right click on the installed monitor(s) and select Uninstall. Exit the Device Manager and restart your system. Windows will reinstall your hardware automatically.

Computer powers up but nothing on screen

1. check the RAM is seated 2. Try any other RAM 3. still the same problem check the video or graphics card , if any 4. if no graphics card and problem stiil changing it clear your CMOS by removing battery 5. if its new system then, remove battery, then take a small wire piece and short the positive and negative of the battery socket, then only CMOS is cleared 6. still problem , check the processor heat sink 7. still problem then suggesting checking motherboard and processor

Boot.ini file is missing and hall.dll file is missing

First repair Recovery Console( Press R) at startup type the administrator password, and then press ENTER. In Command prompt type bootcfg /rebuild

Boot.ini

When you receive a message that is similar to the following message, press Y :Total Identified Windows Installs: 1 Add installation to boot list? (Yes/No/All)

Enter Load Identifier (type the name of the

operating system (Microsoft Windows XP Professional or Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition. )

Enter OS Load options (type

Type exit

/fastdetect )

Hal.dll

expand d:\i386\hal.dl_ c:\windows\system32 press enter press Y. exit and then press Enter to restart your PC.