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If Something Goes Wrong
Disk or storage drive problems
The screen does not look correct.
Choose a theme for your desktop background, under
Change the visuals and sounds on your computer, in
the
Themes panel. You can also change the setting for
individual components separately by selecting an item from
just below the
Themes panel (Desktop Background,
Color, Sounds, and Screen Saver).
For more information, see the Windows
®
online Help.
Small bright dots appear on your TFT display when
you turn on your computer.
Small bright dots may appear on your screen display when
you turn on your computer. Your display contains an
extremely large number of thin-film transistors (TFT) and is
manufactured using high-precision technology. Any small
bright dots that may appear on your display are an intrinsic
characteristic of the TFT manufacturing technology. Over a
period of time, and depending on the usage of the computer,
the brightness of the screen will deteriorate. This is also an
intrinsic characteristic of the screen technology.
Disk or storage drive problems
Problems with the storage drive or with external media
usually show up as an inability to access the drive or as
sector errors. Sometimes a drive problem may cause one or
more files to appear to have garbage in them. Typical
problems are:
Error-checking
This feature is not available for optical disc drives.
Run Error-checking, which analyzes the directories and files
on the storage drive and repairs any damage it finds.
To run Error-checking:
1 From the Start screen, type
computer.
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