Troubleshooting
Your first PC repair or upgrade can be pretty intimidating. What if it doesn't work? Worse still, what if the PC goes up in flames the first time you turn it on? Set your mind at ease. This isn't rocket surgery. Any reasonably intelligent person can repair or upgrade a PC with a high degree of confidence that it will work normally afterward. If you use good components and work carefully, everything usually just works.
Still, stuff happens. So, although we provide more detailed troubleshooting suggestions for specific components throughout this book, we thought it was a good idea to summarize early in the book some basic troubleshooting steps to cover the most common problems that occur during a system repair or upgrade.
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