Hardware or Software? The Simplest Diagnosis of a Problem

When I first started working for a PC Repair business my boss gave me a sure-fire way to tell the difference between a hardware problem and a software problem. Hardware means hundreds or thousands of dollars, software just means finding the bug to fix it.

It is as simple as this:

• Hardware problems will cause your system to malfunction on an irregular basis.
• Software problems will cause your system to malfunction on a regular basis (it crashes/breaks at the same moment every time.)

Software problems can be fixed much more often than hardware problems. A hardware problem means that something is physically wrong with the computer while a software problem means that something is wrong with the program executing on the computer.

Use this tool to be able to make a simple diagnosis of your computer when something goes wrong. It will give you an accurate diagnosis 95% of the time.

God Bless,
-Daniel Kolansky