Trouble:

We have received many problems mentioning that they are not able to format their pen drives. Some of them have written that the pen drive capacity displayed is not correct.

When they try to format the pen drive, Windows Shows error "Can not format the pen drive". There can be more than one reasons behind such problems, some of the common problems are:

1. Virus or trojan infection.

2. Corrupted flash chips on the pen drive (hardware fault)

3. Fake pen drives ! (Many such drives are there in the markets, beware)

Lets see what to do to fix the issues.

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Trouble:

One of our readers Suhaneh, submitted a trouble “USB Device Malfunction Error message coming even no USB device connected to system“.

This kind of trouble really sounded very strange. It gave me a very interesting topic to research upon. What I found as a solution was even more strange than the problem. On searching the causes for such errors I came across about problems when people are using their USB devices and they work well. Other moment the USB device will stop working and will give error:

“USB DEVICE MALFUNCTIONED”

There are several hardware, software, and drivers related reasons for behind this problem.

Let us look into the details one by one.

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Trouble:

One of our readers is facing a problem, whenever he hibernates his computer, the computer does not hibernate properly and restarts. Isn’t it annoying? It surely is.

What is difference between hibernate and shutdown?

Shutdown : All the contents of the ram and other resources are cleaned up and computer is powered off. When you turn on your computer, all the operating system files are loaded again to boot the computer.

Hibernate: All the contents of ram are stored in a file on hard disk. When you turn on the computer, the same file is copied back to the ram and your computer will start in the state you hibernated it.

But what to do in case your computer restarts on hibernating or standby ?

Lets see the how to get rid of this problem.

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Trouble:

Once it occurred to me that I was clicking certain file icon with mouse and a lot of other icons ware also getting selected. I opened “my computer” and clicked on certain item and all were getting selected together (strange!). When I opened certain folder, lots of folders opened in new windows.

I was confused as what was happening. I had no idea was that some software problem or a virus has infected? There was totally erratic behaviour when I was using the mouse and keyboard.

The suspense was getting deeper now,  soon I realized what the trouble was. Guess what ?

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Trouble:

Are facing troubles in running latest application software or games that demand a lot of RAM?

You may be feeling the need to upgrade your RAM?

But If you are going to add another RAM module to increase the RAM size without removing the old module, it may cause more troubles than good. Let us see the troubles that you may face:

• Poor performance even after increasing the RAM.
• System becomes unstable and restarts abruptly.
• Only one of the two RAM modules is detected.
• New RAM module is not detected.

Now lets us have a look at the precautions that you should take to avoid the above mentioned problems.

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