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uTorrent on Windows Subscribe l l FOLLOW US TWITTER GOOGLE+ FACEBOOK GET UPDATES BY EMAIL Enter your email below to get exclusive access to our best articles and tips before everybody else. RSS ALL ARTICLES FEATURES http://www.howtogeek.com/174068/how-to-identify-which-hardware-component-is-failing-in-your-computer/ ONLY TRIVIA Search How-To Geek How to Identify Which Hardware Component is Failing in Your Computer Concluding that your computer has a hardware problem is just the first step. If you're dealing with a hardware issue and not a http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/t/19529892 software issue, the next step is determining what hardware problem you're actually dealing with. If you purchased a laptop or pre-built desktop PC and it's still under warranty, you don't need to care about this. Have the manufacturer fix hardware error the PC for you -- figuring it out is their problem. If you've built your own PC or you want to fix a computer that's out of warranty, this is something you'll need to do on your own. Blue Screen 101: Search for the Error Message RELATED ARTICLEEverything You Need To Know About the Blue Screen of Death This may seem like obvious advice, but searching for information about a blue screen's error message can help immensely. Most hardware error message blue screens of death you'll encounter on modern versions of Windows will likely be caused by hardware failures. The blue screen of death often displays information about the driver that crashed or the type of error it encountered. For example, let's say you encounter a blue screen that identified "NV4_disp.dll" as the driver that caused the blue screen. A quick Google search will reveal that this is the driver for NVIDIA graphics cards, so you now have somewhere to start. It's possible that your graphics card is failing if you encounter such an error message. Check Hard Drive SMART Status RELATED ARTICLEHow to See if Your Hard Drive is Dying with S.M.A.R.T. Hard drives have a built in S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) feature. The idea is that the hard drive monitors itself and will notice if it starts to fail, providing you with some advance notice before the drive fails completely. This isn't perfect, so your hard drive may fail even if SMART says everything is okay. If you see any sort of "SMART error" message, your hard drive is failing. You can use SMART analysis tools to view the SMART health status information your hard drives are reporting. Test Your RAM RAM failure can result in a variety of problems. If the computer writes data to RAM and the RAM returns different data because it's malfunctioning, you may see application c