10 Important hardware Failures and Reasons

Symptoms:
  • "Fatal error: the system has become unstable or is busy”

  • Blue Screen of Death.
  • Fatal Exception Error. (RAM)
  • Parity error messages. (RAM)
  • RAM lock up and freeze the computer’s display. (BIOS)
  • Fatal OE exceptions and VXD errors. (Video Card)
  • Computer can not start.(Power supply problem) system files missing.
  • Computer loop on BIOS.(Power supply problem) system files missing.
  • Blank screen.(Overheating)
  • Black screen of Death.(Overheating)
Cause of problem:

1. Hardware conflict

The number one reason why Windows crashes is hardware conflict. If there are a lot of devices, or if the hardware are not installed properly, when the user tries to use both devices at the same time, a crash can happen.

Sometimes mismatch driver also can make your device can function properly.

Troubleshoot:
  • Go to 'Device Manager' to check if all your device functional properly and all the driver for the device is install.
  • Make sure your computer drive is up-to-date.
2. Bad Random-Access Memory(RAM)

RAM problems might bring on a fatal error message that indicates a serious hardware problem. Sometimes it may mean a part is damaged and will need replacing. But a fatal error caused by RAM might be caused by a mismatch of chips or mismatch speed of RAM.

Troubleshoot:
  • Enter the BIOS settings and increase the wait state of the RAM.
  • Rearrange the RAM chips on the motherboard, or take some of them out.(Do not to touch the gold connections, as they can be easily damaged.)
3. BIOS settings

A common way to access these settings is to press the F2 or delete button during the first few seconds of a boot-up. Usually BIOS problem is come up, if you change something in the BIOS and the computer becomes more unstable.

Troubleshoot:
  • Write down on a piece of paper all the BIOS settings that appear on the screen. That way, you will know what settings to revert to.
  • Restore BIOS setting to default.
4. Hard disk drives

After a few weeks, the information on a hard disk drive starts to become fragmented. Hard disks will slow down and crash if they are too full.

Troubleshoot:
  • Defragment the hard disk every week or so, to prevent the disk from causing a screen freeze. (Use Windows Disk Defragment or any defragment application such as Diskeeper.)
  • Empty the Recycle Bin every week to free more space.
  • Scanned your hard disk every week for errors or bad sectors.
5. Video card

Troubleshoot:
  • Take a look at the color settings in 'Display Setting'. For most desktops, high colour 16-bit depth is adequate.
  • Make sure it does not have a hardware conflict. Check it in 'Device Manager'
  • Look up your video card’s manufacturer on the internet and search for the most recent drivers for it.
6. Viruses

Some viruses erase the boot sector of a hard drive, making it impossible to start. Viruses also can 'eat' all your files in your hard drives including system files.

Troubleshoot:
  • Install and update antivirus in your computer.
  • Install also spyware application such as Spyware Doctor.
7. Printers

The action of sending a document to print creates a bigger file, often called a postscript file.

Printers have only a small amount of memory, called a buffer. This can be easily overloaded. Printing a document also uses a considerable amount of CPU power. This will also slow down the computer’s performance.

Troubleshoot:
A good way to clear the buffer is to unplug the printer for ten seconds. Booting up from a powerless state, also called a cold boot, will restore the printer’s default settings and you may be able to carry on.

8. Software

A common cause of computer crash is faulty or badly-installed software. Incompatible software also cause of this problem. For example, you install Bitdefender and Kaspersky antivirus in a computer.

Troubleshoot:
  • Use application like Your Uninstaller to uninstall this software.
  • Make sure you have remove all the software before install a new software. To be safe, restart your computer after uninstall or remove a software.
  • Use registry cleaner like Registry Booster to remove obsolete entries.
  • Entering Safe Mode(Press F4 when Windows Start). Restore your computer to previous restore point.
9. Overheating

Central processing units (CPUs) are usually equipped with fans to keep them cool. If the fan fails or fills with dust it may start to overheat and generate a particular kind of error called a kernel error. This is a common problem in chips that have been overclocked to operate at higher speeds than they are supposed to.

Troubleshoot:
  • Install bigger and faster fan on the CPU.
  • Install more fan to make air flow move faster.
  • Clean your fan.
  • For laptop user, dont put your laptop at your bed. Make sure your laptop have good air flow.
10. Power supply problems

Sometime computer crash because data lost in your computer. Computer is not properly shutdown may be the cause of the problem.

Troubleshoot:
  • Buying a uninterrupted power supply (UPS). This will give you a clean power supply when there is electricity, and it will give you a few minutes to perform a controlled shutdown in case of a power cut.

Remove My_Heart.exe virus

For program and folder that is underline with red line = Virus (Delete)
For program and folder that is underline with green line = Normal (Safe)

This remove this virus, follow this step-by-step guide:

Step-by-Step guide:
  1. Install an antivirus in your computer. Make sure it is updated.
  2. Scan your computer.
  3. This virus will disabled your Folder Option. Click here to restore the folder option.Remove

If Hackintosh Reboots Constantly After OSX86 Install

Installing the OS X on your PC is difficult till first install. Successful OSX86 installation is depends on various combinations like right Distro, BIOS Settings, Hardware, Patch Selection etc. Most common problem for first time installer is my hackintosh reboots after installation finishes. For first time peoples make sure to read and understand the post given below and our OSX86 Basics section. We always recommend to install on a clean hard disk. If you are suffering from endless reboot after leopard hackintosh install, then follow these steps to solve it.





1. Check your BIOS setup and use the following setting if available :

Set Core Mutil-Proccessing disable (if all goes well set enabled)
Set ACPI 2.0 Support to yes
Set ACPI APIC Support to enable
Set CPU Internal Thermal Control to Disabled or Auto
Set the Max CPUID Value Limit to Disabled
Set the “Execute Disable Function” to Enabled
XD (eXecution Disabled) Disabled
Set ATA/IDE Mode Settings:

Set Configure SATA as: AHCI
Set S.M.A.R.T: Enabled
IDE Settings:

Set ATA/IDE Mode: Legacy
Set Configure SATA as: IDE
Set S.M.A.R.T: Disabled



2. Try to Boot using some Darwin Bootloader Switches (or combinations of them):
cpus=1
-f
-x
-v
-legacy
platform=X86PC
platform=86PC
rd=diskXsY (where X is the number of the leopard drive starting from 0 and Y is the number
of Leopard partition starting from 1 example: rd=disk0s1)


3. if you are using kalyway 10.5.1 then try “TOHKERNEL” at the darwin boot prompt it will boot TOH kernel instead of the vanilla one (this solution is mostly for when the DVD reboots befor getting to the graphical install screen).

4. Make sure you have at least SSE2 Processor.

5. Reinstall OSX86 with minimum options in customization.

6. Remove hardware parts you don’t need for the install process (like PCI cards, 1.44, USB deices etc.)

7. Try to install OSX86 on a blank Hard Disk.

Remove MS32DLL.dll.vbs and Hacked by Godzilla virus-step by step guide

This post will be step-by-step guide to remove MS32DLL.dll virus.

Step-by-Step guide:

1. Press 'Ctrl + Alt + Delete' together to open up 'Windows Task Manager'.
2. Click the 'Process' tab and find the process on the 'Image Name' column called 'wscript.exe'.


3. Press 'Delete' key after selecting the process.
4. After that go to 'Folder Option'. Select 'View' tab, check 'Show hidden files and folders' and press 'OK'.

5. Search for 'MS32DLL.dll.vbs' in your computer. Usually the virus files can be found in 'C:\Windows'. When you found the files, delete the files from your computer.

Note: Dont double click your C drive. Open your C drive by using right click. Then delete 'autorun.inf'.
6. Open 'Start Menu' by pressing Windows logo key.


7. Go to 'Run' , and type 'regedit' (without '') and press 'Enter'.
8. Navigate to the following path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ Software\ Microsoft\Windows\Current Version \Run
If you see any key for 'MS32DLL.dll', delete the key.
9. Next, navigate to the following path:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
If you see Window Title with value 'Hacked By Godzilla' virus,delete the entry
10. Exit the 'Registry Editor' and Restart your computer.

Download Standalone Offline Installer of Google Chrome

Today it’s going to be Google Chrome Day, With Every second some one writing about Google Chrome, A buzz about Google Chrome has been already started building in Blogosphere. Just a few min before i published about unavailability of Google Toolbar in Google Chrome.Here is another post related to Google Chrome.

Google Chrome is now available for Download and many users have already started using Chrome. One thing which I didn’t liked about Google Chrome Downloader is it’s Online Downloader. Meaning you need to have internet connection every time you need to reinstall Google Chrome.

Don’t you think it would be better to have Standalone Offline Installer of Google Chrome? Well don’t worry here is link for downloading Offline Standalone installer of Google Chrome.

Google Chrome

Size of Google Offline Installer is about 7.35 MB

Download Offline Standalone Installer of Google Chrome.

Learn to Repair & Recover Damaged/Corrupted Microsoft Outlook 2007 .Pst File




Microsoft Outlook is the popular email client widely used at work places. Many users are so much dependent on Microsoft outlook that they can’t start there work without Outlook. Microsoft Outlook stores Email Messages, Contacts, Journals, Folders, Notes and Tasks on your local hard drive as a .pst file. Anyone who uses Outlook regularly knows that these files are notoriously vulnerable to corruption.

A damaged .pst file can mean that all of your important Mi
crosoft Outlook data might be going down the drain. We need some way to fix this corrupted & damaged Outlook .pst files. Here is powerful freeware software Stellar Outlook PST Repair to help us in such situation. Stellar Outlook PST Repair quickly repairs corrupted .pst files, recovers damaged .pst file & lets you restores your Emails, Contacts, Calendar items, Notes and Tasks from damaged & Corrupted Outlook PST.

Features of Stellar Outlook PST Repair
1. Recover emails, calendar entries, contacts, notes and journals from damaged PST files
2. Repair password protected files
3. Restore Text, RTF and HTML messages
4. Recover from encrypted files

5. Fix .pst files larger than 2GB
6. Recover deleted emails
7. Create unique profiles for individual PST files
8. Export recovered files automatically to Microsoft Outlook
9. Includes a Live Update option to constantly update the software with the latest version
10. Supports MS Outlook 97, 98, 2000, 2002, XP, 2003 & 2007


Screenshots of Stellar Outlook PST Repair 3.0

To
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How to Customize Windows 7 Logon Screen Text For Windows 7

As we have said in past Rafael Reviria has been source of many interesting finding in latest Microsoft operating system windows 7. It was Rafael who has found how to customize Windows 7 Logon background screen. Once again here is yet another interesting find from winthinwindows.

With ability tochange Windows 7 Logon background it may happen that a light background wallpaper making difficult to read username text on logon screen. Well don’t worry it seems Microsoft has already provide workaround to over come from this issue.

Here is simple registry hack to make Windows 7 Logon Screen Text & Button

How to Customize Windows 7 Logon Screen Text

1. Press Win+r and Type Regedit on run command

2. Navigate to following registry key

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI

3. In right-side pane, create a new DWORD value nammed ButtonSet and set its value to any of following according as per your requirements:

0 - Lighter text shadows, darker (more opaque) buttons (Windows default)

1 - Darker text shadows, lighter (more translucent) buttons (for lighter backgrounds)

2 - No text shadows, opaque buttons (for darker backgrounds)

Windows 7 Logon Screen Text
Image Credit: Withinwindows.com

Get Back IE Address Bar Toolbar Option in Windows XP SP3 Taskbar


After install Service Pack 3 on Windows XP many users would have noticed that IE Address bar is missing inTaskbar Toolbar options. Unfortunately this is not a bug but it has been deliberately removed by Microsoft due to antitrust ruling against Microsoft.

We are sure many Windows XP users will be missing this option however it’s not impossible to get back address bar option in taskbar toolbar menu. Here we have got two solutions to get back Address bar in Windows XP

Service Pack 3.

Solution 1: MuvEnum Address Bar

MuvEnum Address Bar is the ultimate replacement for the missing address bar in Windows XP SP3. MuvEnum Address bar not only gets back Address bar option but also adds many new features including Internet Explorer, Firefox 3.x, and Google Chrome support in addition to a system-wide hotkey.

Screenshot of MuvEnum Address Bar

MuvEnum Address Bar Options

MuvEnum Address Bar Toolbar

Download MuvEnum Address Bar

Solution 2: Replacing Browserui.dll System23 file

In this method you need to copy the file browseui.dll from your original Windows XP or Windows XP SP2 disk into C:\Windows\system32 folder replacing the newest version of the file installed by Windows XP SP3.

You can download browserui.dll from here and replace it with new browserui.dll in system 32 folder and you should get back Address bar option in Taskbar.