Common Hardware Error And Solutions

1. MONITOR LED IS BLINKING 
Check all the connections like Monitor Cable, Data cables,RAM, Display Card , CPU connections. 

2. CONTINUOUS THREE BEEPS 
Problem in RAM Connection. 

3. THREE BEEPS 
( 1 Long 2 Short)
Problem in Display Card Connection 

4. THREE LONG BEEPS PERIOD WISE 
Problem in BIOS or RAM (Basic Input Output System) 

5. CONTINUOUS NON-STOP BEEPING 
Key Board Problem (I.e.; Some Key is pressed for Longer time) 


6. HDD LED IS GLOWING CONTINUOUSLY 
Data cable to be connected properly (twisted cable) . 

7. NO DISPLAY ON THE SCREEN AT ALL 
Hard Disk cable connected wrongly. Connect rightly seeing the Red mark (Faces power supply) and then Restart. 

8. POWER LED IS OFF 
a. Check main power cord
b. Check S.M.P.S.
c. Check Mother Board connection 

9. SHOWING CMOS ERROR 
Replace 3 Volt battery of Mother Board . Set Original Settings Manually.(Refer CMOS Setup chart)
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10. SHOWING FDD ERROR OR FLOPPY DRIVE IS NOT WORKING PROPERLY 
Check Power cord of FDD , Data Cables , set CMOS & Finally the Check drive.


11. SHOWING HDD ERROR OR HARD DISK FAILURE 
a. Check Power Cord 
b. Check connection of HDD 
c. Check Data cable 
d. Check Hard Disk parameters in CMOS or Auto detecting Setting Partitions by Fdisk Command, then format it to set track 0. 

12. MOTHER BOARD HANGS DUE TO UNSTABILIZED POWER SUPPLY 
a. Check S.M.P.S 
b. RAM not functioning properly. 
c. Software problem (due to using pirated software) 
d. CPU fan not functioning properly. 

13. DANCING SCREEN 
a. Check Display card connection 
b. Virus Problem 
c. Video Memory Problem 

14. SHAKING SCREEN 
a. Earthing problem 
b. Magnetic waves comes around. 

15. CPU CABINET SHOCK 
a. Check Earthing 
b. Check main power cord. 

16. NON-SYSTEM DISK ERROR 
a. Floppy Drive having different disk (Non-Bootable Disk) OR CMOS Parameters for Hard Disk may not be set properly. 
b. Hard Disk Partitions may not be created. 
c. Hard Disk may not be formatted. 

17. MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM 
The System files missing namely Ie; command.com} - User File IO.SYS & MS_DOS.SYS } - Hidden Files. These above three files required for Start up of the system that can be transferred by using SYS C: Command OR While the time of formatting by using Format c:/u/s 

18. MISSING COMMAND INTERPRETOR 
May the file Command.com is corrupted OR Infected by Virus OR Some one has Erased it. 

19. SHOWING I/O ERROR 
a. The type of Hard Disk in CMOS may not be set properly. 
b. Operating system used for formatting is not valid 

20. SHOWING DIVIDE OVER- FLOW MESSAGE 
a. May some Directories or Files crash with other files. 
b. Use CHKDSK/F or SCANDISK Command to correct it.