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What would you do? Get a new computer or send for a repair? First of all, you have to see how old the computer is and check your pocket book. Sometime repair may cost more and you may find similar motherboard or the processor, heat sink and even memory in the ebay. But what happen after purchasing one, if it doesn't work? Then send it back? Sometimes it may be cheaper to buy a new computer.
Tough decision! What shall you do with the old computer? Gone are the days of trade-in for a new one! How about keeping it until it become antique? Or pollute the environment by throwing it in the bin or be civic minded by paying someone to dispose it properly?
Now a day, computers have become easier for layman like us to able to use our technical skill to repair simple thing. You may also be surprised to know that many of us still have trouble operating VCR or mobile phone let alone changing the processor in a computer. Should we use expert to take a look first before making a decision?
After all we have to realize that the computer is a delicate piece of equipment. Very sensitive to even dust and static and if you are not careful, you may seriously damage your computer. I have heard from many of my friends who are trying to save money by fixing it themselves. Lack of knowledge and failure to take enough appropriate precautions, and inadvertently blown their processor or memory. That is serious trouble!
Avoid touching the connectors or chips on any computer card. You should ideally always store memory and computer cards in proper anti-static bags to avoid this damage. I have heard of people buying some memory out of a bucket at a computer fair or boot sale and wondering why it doesn't work when they fix it.
Sometimes it is cheaper and worthwhile to hire a professional computer repair service. I know it may cost a fortune, but find someone who had hired them before and is trust worthy. They can do the job quicker and probably better, without any risk of damaging your computer.
By hiring a professional computer repair service you can rest assure that your computer will be fixed quickly, easily and efficiently and probably cost less than you expected. Most of the professional will even give you some advice about how to keep your computer running efficiently and free from viruses, adware and Trojans.
The best way is prevention. Try looking in the search engine antivirus and anti spyware for the latest protection software. If you get protect yourself before it happens it'll save you a lot of time and money.
It is important to always keep your computer free from virus. Computer virus is much like a disease. When your computer infected virus, it will affect your computer operation negatively. If you found it early, you still might be able to clear it smoothly. But, if you found it too late, then it might be a disaster to you. It will make your computer unable to operate totally and you have to format your computer causing you lose all the important data stored in the computer.
A good sign that indicates your computer might be infected by virus is slow in task-processing. You need to stay alert when encounter this situation as there are computer viruses created to slow down your computer processing power.
Another sign is when some of the files in the operation system were corrupted suddenly. An even worst case is when you can't directly browse into your disk drive. You will have to right click and then select 'open' to get into your disk drive.
Also, if you are a frequent computer users, you may have experienced computer auto-restart quite often. Usually the computer will pop up a message informing you that the computer will shut down itself in the next 60 seconds. In this case, the computer probably has infected by a virus called W32.Blaster.Worms.
The easiest method to find out whether viruses have gone into your computer is obviously by installing an antivirus software. The strong and advance antivirus software will notify immediately when your computer just infected by a virus, letting your take the necessary action instantly.
However, there are powerful computer viruses created to shut down your antivirus software in order to get into your computer without a single notification from your antivirus software to you. There are also certain types of viruses that can mislead your antivirus software and make the software treats the virus as an authorized program.
So, it is necessary to take 5 to 10 seconds everyday looking at your computer task manager. Getting your task manager opened is pretty easy; just press Ctrl+Alt+Del on your keyboard. When the task manager shows up, you can see the activity running and CPU usage level in the 'Process Tab'. If you see more than 50% of CPU resources is being occupied by unknown program, then possibly the computer has been infected by virus.
Another method you can use to detect virus is by checking for unidentified.exe file appear in the computer system. Those unidentified.exe files are actually developed to trick you by replicating itself to be similar to some of the file in your computer. For instance, lets say you have a file name ‘Book' in your ‘My Computer' folder. One day when you go to your ‘My Computer' folder again to open the ‘Book' file but you notice that there is another similar file named Book but with dot exe like Book.exe. That actually is a virus that will be destroying your computer system soon. So, always spend some time to look around your folders and files, see whether there is any unidentified.exe file. If you found one, take action immediately to remove it.