What Are Steps For Troubleshooting?

First you have to learn the basics of what you are going to troubleshoot. The basics are more important than anything else, so you want to get the basics down cold.
After you have basic knowledge of something and how it works you can start fixing it when something is wrong. It's a good idea to have a checklist so you will know what to check first and down the list. An important key to this, is you have to really get into it. All of your attention is on this project now! Nothing else matters except troubleshooting this. With experience and learning more, you become an expert troubleshooter.
Troubleshoot: To isolate the source of a problem and fix it, typically through a process of elimination whereby possible sources of the problem are investigated and eliminated beginning with the most obvious or easiest problem to fix.