A flowchart is a graphical representation of a process or system. This document provides flowcharts for troubleshooting various hardware issues, including hard drive boot problems, CPU/RAM/motherboard performance issues, video adapter/GPU/monitor problems, peripheral device failures, SCSI/SAS drive errors, and DVD/CD/Blu-ray recording issues. The flowcharts help diagnose common problems and their potential solutions.

1. Troubleshooting Flowchart

2. What is a troubleshooting flowchart?
• A Flowchart is a graphically representation of the structure of process
or system, algorithm or the step-by-step solution of the problem

3. The hard drive performance flowchart deals
primarily with boot issues and troubleshooting the
different drive
Troubleshooting Hard Drive Boot
and Performance

4. Troubleshooting CPU, RAM and
Motherboard Performance
The motherboard, RAM and CPU flowchart is for
troubleshooting issues like random freezes and poor
performance that appear after boot

5. The video performance flowchart is for live screen problems,
like flicker, 3D failure, display distortions, overheating and
freezes, and poor response speed
Video Adapter GPU and Monitor
Troubleshooting

6. The peripheral performance flowchart covers all externally
attached devices, including USB drives and printers, legacy
keyboards, mice and ports.
Troubleshooting PC Attached Peripherals

7. SCSI drives are rapidly losing out to SATA drives in RAID arrays
because SATA is less expensive. New SCSI controllers can often
handle both types.
SCSI and SAS Failures Troubleshooting
Flowchart

8. Many burner problems are due to simple
issues like bad discs or poor PC
performance, but copy protection schemes
can also prevent ripping movies and CD
Troubleshooting DVD, CD and Blu-ray
Recording

9. Reference
• https://www.ifitjams.com/manual.htm