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If Something Goes Wrong
Resolving a hardware conflict
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Over a period of time, and depending on the usage of the
computer, the brightness of the LCD Screen will
deteriorate. This is an intrinsic characteristic of LCD
technology.
Screen will dim when the computer is operated on
battery power and you may not be able to increase the
brightness of the screen.
Disk drive problems
Problems with the hard disk usually show up as an inability to
access the disk or as sector errors. Sometimes a disk problem
may cause one or more files to appear to have garbage in
them. Typical disk problems are:
You are having trouble accessing a disk, or one or more
files appear to be missing.
Make sure you are identifying the drive by its correct name
(for example, C:).
Error-checking
Run Error-checking, which analyzes the directories, files and
NT file system (NTFS) on the disk and repairs any damage it
finds:
To run Error-checking:
1 Click Start, then click My Computer.
2 Right-click the drive you want to check.
The drive’s properties box appears.
3 Click on Properties.
4 Click the Tools tab.
5 Click the Check now button.
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