Newbie here. I have a 2 year old Dell laptop which is having some issues recently. The computer technically works fine but there are some hiccups which are worrisome and weren't there in the past. First, the hardware scan included with the computer is telling me that my hard drive is likely going to fail. It says that it fails a short smart test or something. I have also noticed some performance issues. It hangs/freezes every once in a while (which it didn't used to do only a month ago). Nothing has changed in terms of hardware software installed recently so I'm not sure what it could be. I recently got my first blue screen, but it went away before I could write anything down: something to the effect of iqrl not less than or equal (i think). I tried to google this but got confused by what it means. I had a hard drive issue about 6 months ago when the comp wouldnt start up b/c of a drive issue. But it ran some check disk and fixed the issue and it had been working fine since. I also had some issues in the past where a graphics card driver had a problem and caused the computer to hang once or twice but this was a while back. Anyways, technically the comp works but its giving me warning signs that something is going wrong. I use this machine for work and really would like to prevent a problem before it happens. What should I do? Should I take it to a repair shop? How will they find out whats wrong? SOrry if this is in the wrong section or something. This is the first time on the site for me. Thanks for any advice!
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