Troubleshoot computer crash-Hardware conflict

Most windows users had suffered from computer crash a lot. You also have problems such like blue screen of death, system slowdown, freezing. Whether you are new user or good at computer knowledge will confused about computer crash.

How can you troubleshoot them? The reasons computer crash can be hardware and software related! We also find that even a power surge will cause your PC crash.

Here we only talk about the Hardware conflict. This is the most common thing your computer will meeting.

There are only 16 interrupt request channels (IRQs) of your PC,(IRQ0: System timer, IRQ2 Keyboard controller, IRQ3: Second IRQ controller, etc)

Each hardware you add to your computer need to communicate with other device trough IRQ, they would tell the PC what they want to do by using an IRQ to signal the microprocessor.

Sometimes you will find that one IRQ was share by two or more hard wares. For example, both your printer and keyboard use IRQ 7. When you add an new hardware to your PC via the AGP, PCI, or ISA port but they did not have independent IRQ, you may get Hardware conflict. So installation is importance. Incorrectly install will cause a Hardware conflict, freezing, blue screen of death occur to prevent damage to your computer, a computer crash will happen.

16 IRQs is not enough for you, you should be aware that some special IRQs is work for special hardware devices. So your installation of camera, iPod, printer tend to crash your computer. Those manufacturers say that they will improve Pentium systems IRQ problem in the future.

Hardware conflict problems sometimes are not instant, most are latent. The problem will occur after a long time of your installing. So some people with great computer knowledge have no idear of how to troubleshoot computer crash.

What you should do is uninstall. Complete uninstall then install it again correctly! Sometimes, simply uninstall will not work, because your registry file has got corrupt. You can run a professional PC cleaner to clean up your registry! ErrorFix will not only uninstall the program also fix the windows errors for you. It make your PC performance like a new! So if you got PC crash problem, why not scan your PC? One click to get rid of Hardware conflict.