Talk about a lot of bad luck recently for these clients. We have been seeing an increasing amount of bad controllers and sectors, not just from old computers either. Seagate & Samsung this week are the problem causers. We have been able to get around bad sectors, grabbing 99% of the data off. The...

Gotta pump out these machines! This week was mainly virus removals and blue screens. Lot of time spent doing diagnostics this week. Also had a few laptops came in with heat issues which is very common. Replaced a couple heat-sinks, screens, keyboards for laptops too. Had charter come out today because...

Sure is nice to run into software gems here and there. Free software that for the most part is regularly updated. At home I run a Linux router, and a media center machine. Both have all free software that keep it up. Probably the most popular open source software you have heard of is Mozilla. Another...

The weekend is almost here, I can smell it! OK, maybe I can’t smell it but you get the idea. Normally on Fridays here at the business its a bit chaotic, but its also the day we order food in for the office. I hear Pizza hut is coming today, stuffed crust…. Mmm…. This is the day we...

Seems like this was the week for clients to bring in their 8-10 year old machines. Surprisingly all of them had been upgraded from Windows 98 or Millennium Edition, to Windows XP. You could hear the hard drives in those machines across the office. The clients just wanted us to tune them up, and possibly...