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Hardware problems usually mean that the computer itself is having difficulties, such as physical damage to the devices within your desktop.

Software problems are usually errors caused by malfunctions with programs that run on the computer and not the computer itself, such as a bug in programming or heavily fragmented files.

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Troubleshooting. A clean OS install is a good start.

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