Common Laptop Problems And How To Deal With Them

Is your laptop not functioning properly? Thinking what to do? You can get in touch with a laptop repair shop or can consult a remote computer support service provider for assistance. But there are also other options as well. Many of the laptop problems are very simple and can be fixed easily. Following are some of most common laptop problems and how to deal with them.

There is no display in the monitor or the screen is totally black or garbled text is there in the display -- The very first thing you should do is to test it with another spare monitor. If it resolves the issue then the problem is with the display but the motherboard is okay. If the issue does not go then the video graphics portion of the mother-board might have some problem and you could do nothing else with it. Make sure that the computer is being tested in stand-alone mode and no other device is connected with the computer. Try to go into the BIOS or SETUP menu and see if you get a display. If you get a display in BIOS then there is no hardware fault. Try to boot up in safe mode and see whether you can get a display or not. If you get a display in safe mode then there surely is a driver problem and most probably it is the graphics driver.

The laptop is very slow -- The laptop needs maintenance and surely there are a lot of things eating up the RAM when your computer is booting up only because unwanted programs tries to load up during start-up because it is there in the start-up items of your computer. Maybe more than one active antivirus is running or else you accidentally installed a software which is actually a rouge-software which displays itself as a protection software instead. The computer was not defragmented for quite a long time and the hard drive was not checked for bad sectors as well.

Drivers for USB devices and sometimes the CD/DVD drive is not detected properly -- Cross check the device in another computer first to see if the device is working properly or not and try to remember whether you installed a new software recently after which you started facing the problem. Try uninstalling that software and try doing a system restore but if that does not help then you will have to contact an on-line technician for resolving such problems as it requires extensive troubleshooting by an expert.

Your computer fails to wake up from hibernation mode The best resolution to the problem is to change the power saving configurations in your computer in such a way so that it uses the stand-by mode instead of the hibernation mode. This mode saves enough power for you to feel happy. Still for further troubleshooting you will have to consult a technician.

Web pages are being redirected to some other spurious website -- If you see that when you go to the internet then websites are being redirected to suspicious websites then you can rest assured of a virus infection. Go to Start and then Run and type mrt without the quotes and click on ok while call your online technician immediately. The step mentioned above is only a first aid but not a complete remedy to the virus problem.

Various dll errors and unknown popup windows -- Keep your system up to date if you see a yellow shield in the system tray at the bottom right corner of the screen with an exclamation mark on it. Double click on it to update the system files. These are only part of the job which takes care of security holes as well. You should also run the sfc/scannow without the quotes from the run box which checks the system files of the laptop. However you should still call your online technician if nothing works and you are not satisfied with the laptops performance.