When things start going wrong with your gaming PC, the first order of business is to establish the cause of those problems. Sometimes this is easy. If you have a secondary hard drive in your system, and it stops being accessible, there is a good chance the problem lies with that hard drive.

If your monitor stops powering up, it’s likely going to be an issue with the monitor. But what if Windows starts failing to boot up every other time you turn your PC on? Or you start getting the dreaded blue screen of death every time you attempt to launch a particular game? Finding the source of these kinds of problems can often be a complicated process that is made much shorter by the wealth of experience we have on this very thing.

Computers, like anything in life, wear down over time. Components start to develop faults, hard drives start throwing up errors, processors behave strangely, graphics card begin acting up. Accurately identifying the cause of your problem could save you a lot of money in the long run-it is much cheaper to replace individual components than entire PCs.