How To Revive A Crashed Laptop

One fine day you’re sitting behind your laptop trying desperately to finish a project when out of your nowhere your screen goes poof blank!  And you wonder to "yourself ” Why now? What’s going on here?” I’ve got bad news for you! Your laptop has crashed. Contrary to what you’ve been told, accidents do happen to laptops. Not only are crashes hair raising affairs but they’re very difficult to diagnose and fix.. But with a little savvy and tech nous, you can narrow things  and identify who the culprits are.

So let's find out howto revive a crashed laptop

Tools Needed For This Adventure:

•  Disk utility software
•    New hard drive

Now that we’ve identified what we need for this exercise, it’s time to get our hands dirty.

Understand Your Laptop's Anatomy
First you need to understand the parts of your laptop's anatomy which    cause your laptop to crash. The most popular causes are damaged hard drives, corrupt software and internal body parts such as motherboards and RAM.   Now turn on your laptop and watch how it behaves. If   the hard drive acts like someone being strangled to death, it means the hard drive is history… To solve this ailment, run a disk diagnostic utility test to ascertain whether it can be cured. If not, it’s time to get the damaged hard drive out and slot in the new hard disk.

     Blue Screen Of Death

   When you see the dreaded “blue" screen of death” on your screen, it can only mean one thing: your operating system is corrupt. To uncorrupt your operating system,  reinstall your OS. Just make sure you don’t make the mistake of forgetting to back up your data before fixing your OS. If you do, you’ll lose all your data.

hThe Motherboard Is History

     If the laptop only boots as far as the BIOS, then the motherboard is also history. You don’t want that happening to your motherboard because the motherboard is to the laptop what an engine is to the car. You know when your car engine breaks and you have to find a new engine replacement? It’s a similar situation with your laptop. Once the motherboard goes, so does your laptop. However, to get around this problem, find a laptop that has a significant problem such as a damaged laptop display, and switch your damaged motherboard with that of the motherboard from the other laptop.

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Virus In The Neigborhood
Anytime a laptop crashes when a program is in the process of being launched, or when the laptop is overworking itself to process data, chances are a virus is in the neighborhood. There are two ways of solving this: First get anti-virus software to clean out the virus . Second, reformat the hard drive. And just as I mentioned a few paragraphs earlier, backup your data to avoid losing the data.. Do me a favor  though:  Do not reinfect your laptop with the same corrupted data or you’ll be forced to clean out the virus all over again.

Well that will be all for "How To Revive A Crashed Laptop"

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What To Do When Your Laptop Overheats

You are working on your laptop one day and for some weird reason your laptop is placed on your lap. All of a sudden, you get this weird sensation that your thighs are about to catch fire. And then you scream out saying” Gosh, my thighs are burning up!” Well, I have good news and bad news. The good news is yours thighs aren’t burning up. The bad news is your laptop is overheating and your laptop is the cause of your laptop overheating. Overheating is probably the biggest threat to the survival of your laptop.  It can do serious damage to your laptop not to mention permanently disabling it. Oh! and placing your laptop on your lap or any other uneven surface accelerates the overheating of your laptop.  Let me show you what to do when your laptop overheats. But first let’s answer some pertinent questions..


First Question

How Do You Know Your Laptop is Overheating?

Anytime your fan is operating at an unusually fast speed, get worried. Because your laptop is heating up, the fan has to overcompensate by  over-spinning. As a result, it puts your hardware in harms way. Consequently, the CPU has to fend for itself by cutting down on its clock speed to escape the rising heat as well. And when that happens, it could cause the laptop to shut down to protect the hardware from further damage.

Next Question:

How Do You Prevent An Overheating Laptop?

Before  I answer this question,  please do the following

•    Shut down the laptop
• Remove the battery
•      Unplug the AC/Adapter
•      Make sure  your hands are dry to avoid electric shock

Now to the solution:

Clean The Fan

The first thing to do when your laptop is overheating is to clean the fan. The fans provide cooling to the CPU and the graphics card. Over time layers of dust and dirt build up in these fans causing the laptop to overheat. So here is how to clean the fan.

·     Carefully, clean the fan with a cotton swap dipped in a drop of alcohol. Make sure the laptop     has completely evaporated before you turn the  power on.

·         You can also use a vacuum cleaner to remove the dust and dirt which clog up the fan. But make sure your fan is not spinning in the wrong direction or else it could get damaged.

·         You can also use compressed air to clean the fan by holding the fan down.

·         Next you clean the exhaust port by sucking out air with the vacuum cleaner. The exhaust port is located on the side of the laptop and it is the opening where the hot air blows out of.

·         Next spray the intake grills with the same compressed air. The intake grills are the small openings where air is sucked into the laptop by the speedily revolving fans.

·         Finally, apply thermal grease  to the interface between the CPU and the graphics card.

Keep The Laptop on a Flat and Even Surface

Most laptops cool down through their behinds(or bottoms).  So if you put your laptop on an uneven surface such as your pillow, blanket, or your lap, the airflow into the laptop becomes disrupted, causing the temperature of the cooling air to rise and the laptop to eventually overheat. You can easily avoid this situation by placing your laptop on a flat surface such as a tray, laptop holder  or  lap stand 

Buy a Laptop Cooler

A  laptop cooler  will do your laptop  a lot of good as it contributes additional cooling to offset potential overheating. Make sure you get the right cooler  because the last thing you want  is a cooler merely sitting under your laptop and sucking air away from it. This of course will cause the laptop to overheat and we don't want that do we? Buying a laptop that blows air upwards will be beneficial as it will take care of problems such as intake grills at the bottom of the laptop. Or you can buy  a  passive cooler which does not consume power but absorbs heat. So the issue of rapid overheating does not arise.

Well, that's a wrap on "What to do When Your Laptop Overheats"  The laptop is prone to overheating due to a combination of external factors and user habits that threaten  the laptop's existence. However, so long as you follow these hardware suggestions and  treat the laptop with love and care, your laptop should live a little longer.




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