Sunday, July 30, 2006

A Little Preventive Maintenance for your Computer:

It is the hottest time of the year here in Colorado. With record temperatures all over the country, there are all sorts of heat related problems including fires, heat exhaustion, and fatigue. Heat has a way of affecting your computers in bad ways as well. Just as you feel kind of worn down and sluggish from the heat, your computers have similar problems. When they get too hot, they will do anything from rebooting themselves without warning, to ‘blue screening,” to shutting down (for their own protection), or even just outright failing. The central processor (CPU) and memory components are most susceptible to heat related problems. There are some things that you can do periodically to prevent these things from happening, and even prevent costly damage to your machine. Your machine has some built in self-protection measures, but you need to periodically make sure that these built-in measures are able to do their job properly.

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