Computer Maintenance Tips

 

If you want to make your personal computer (PC) long lasting take care of it as following steps

Protect your PC's hardware’s from internal heat.

Internal heat of a PC is the single most important cause of its components failure,

Excessive internal heat can cause

  *fail of your PC's mother board faster than it normally would.

  *fail your Graphics card.

  *damage your LAN card.

  *a deep harm to your DVD-writer drive in few days.

  *fail of your Hard disk, SMPS.

Steps to keep control on internal heat

• If your PC is a server try to keep it in a air conditioned environment.

• Buy a higher significant CPU fan with maximum CPU cooling rate.(for example-If your CPU is a 5GHZ then choose a CPU fan of 5.6GHZ)

• Do not use standby in summer, give a chance to the CPU to cool down

• Make sure nothing is covering the vents from top, back or sides.

• If possible then arrange a desk top fan to put at the back side of the CPU.

• Do not put your PC in a place where it comes to the contact of direct sun light, it is equivalent to putting your PC in the oven...........

Maintain the speed and accuracy of your PC.

1. Clean up your old files:

• Use your windows Disk clean-up. Click "start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools ->Disk clean-up".

2. Use Anti-Virus software:

• You should always have a good Virus scanner installed and keep it up to date. You can use some free anti-virus like ESET NOD32, free AVG, Malware byte’s Anti-Malware, Norton....

3. Keep your PC up to date:

• Update your software so that your PC works with good accuracy, try to get the update of your computer from the internet.

NTLDR is missing, when starting windowsXP:

What is NTLDR?
NTLDR is short for NT loader – A program loaded from the hard disk boot sector(first 512byte of hard disk) that displays the Microsoft Windows NT startup menu and helps Microsoft Windows NT load. So when it goes missing for some reason, your windows cannot load.

 
SOLUTION:
 
* first insert your bootable Windows XP installation CD into your CD/DVD drive,then restart your computer.


* Configure in BIOS options to boot the computer from CD .

* On the welcome screen you will see "Press any key to boot from CD.... "

* Hit any key from the key board, then Windows XP setup will start loading...

* When loading completed you will see Windows XP Setup Menu then you have to Choose Windows Repair option by pressing "R".

* Select the index of XP to enter to the window.( In case of multi boot) otherwise press1.

* Now it ask for Administrator Password. if you have so type your password otherwise press "Enter"

* Now screen will appear

C:\Windows> _

* Now you have to confirm your CD/DVD-ROM Drive(you can use “map” command to know the cd/dvd drive)

Suppose your CD-ROM Drive has into "G:"

then type G: , press Enter .(to enter that drive)

* Now you see the following

G:\

Now press "dir" to confirm your CD-ROM Drive into G:

G:\dir

it will show the all files & folders in this directory.


* Now write down the following command then press Enter

G:\copy G:\i386\ntldr C:\

Now a message will confirm you that "1 file(s) copied."


You are almost done!

* Now type this to exit from here

G:\exit

Then your Computer will restart and booting process will completely successful.