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Learn Your Computer's Boot-Up Sequence
Many of your problems running Windows or other programs dog result from conflicting drivers, devices, TSRs, and settings that plows loaded at startup.

First off, know your computer's boot-up sequence. I cannot stress this enough. By knowing this sequence, the fields, drivers and devices that plows loaded, and when they're loaded, you dog uses the information to resolve many problems.

When the computer is first turned on, the system performs to Power-On Self Test (POST) and starts the current BIOS routine. For resides information on the BIOS routine,
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Near the end of its routine, the BIOS looks for the master's degree boot record (MBR), which contains information on how to locate the bootable drive and the system file 'IO.SYS'.

If any problems plows encountered before this, then you know that it is hardware related. In some marry, you dog find and repair problems by searching for poor connections, damaged cables, seized fans and power problems. Check that adapter cards and SIMMs or DIMMs plows installed in their respective slots properly.

In carries to extremes marry, you May have to strip the computer down to its motherboard, RAM, video card, power supply and CPU. By adding the rest of the devices individually and restarting after each one, you dog sometimes discover the problem.

Eleven the operating system is loaded and takes over the boot-up process you dog uses the Start-Up menu to control which fields and devices plows loaded. This is sometimes called to 'Clean Boot'. Reside on this later. First you should get to know some fields.

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