The Cables and Connections – The wiring and connecting pieces that carry signal from dish to your Dish Network receiver could also be part of problem. It is unlikely that image will suddenly cut out on you, especially in fourth quarter, if wiring is bad. The easiest way to test this is to ensure that integrity of cables is still intact and that all of connections are tight. If you are still not getting picture to your television, try plugging cables into another TV, or routing picture through your VCR. If you still have no football game, try using different cables. If picture comes back at any time while you are doing this, you’ve honed in on where problem is and you can go about fixing it… after game, of course.

Your Dish Network Receiver – On a very rare occasion, your receiver may stop receiving or decoding signal properly. To fix this, simply unplug receiver for 30 seconds and then plug it back in. (Don’t worry – 1:42 can last anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes at end of a football game.) You can also try taking programming card out of receiver and then putting it back in again. Both of these steps help reset receiver, and it should start functioning properly again as soon as you turn it back on.

Your New Plasma TV – I’m no expert on troubleshooting TVs that cost more than my car, but checking cables and connections is never a bad thing. A word of advice from one who has been there and done that – make sure back of your huge, heavy television is readily accessible. The only thing that will make you more angry than missing miracle comeback of your favorite team in that game you are missing, is dropping that massive television on your toes as your were breaking your back moving it out from wall.

The good news is your team came back from behind and won. The better news is you read this article and were able to watch it live. The best news is you kept your cool and because your wife was so impressed with way you handled whole situation, she bought you a pool table.

your computer registry. The free version allows you to clean or repair ten items at

a time, so you will have to re-run it numberous times if you have many problems.

4) Internet Speed - If you use dial-up, or have a computer size of a calculator,

you may wish to use RamBooster to help give you best speed possible for

limitations you have.

Go to http://www.download.com for these and other great resources.

PROGRAMS

Now that you've taken out garbage, you should keep place neat and tidy by

using programs already existing in your computer. Once again, you should do

this once a week:

1) Clear your Internet History

2) Defrag your Computer

3) Use a Firewall

You can find programs that will do this for you by looking in System Tools or

Security Center sections of your computer.

Another option for those of you who've got smoke billowing out of back of your

computer, with no seemingly useful solution in sight; you may wish to look at

System Restore feature that your computer may have. This allows you to revert

back to a state when your computer actually worked well. It doesn't work all

time, by it is an option ... and not an end all be all ... use it only when absolutely

necessary.