May 9, 2025
Why you can’t move a hard drive from one computer to another In the old days you could sometimes move a hard drive from one computer to another and have it work. Even then there were many things to change in the drive. If you moved a hard drive for, say a Dell to another […]
Read more >Mar 21, 2021
After 20 years working in the computer field I believe that it has reached the point where average users cannot keep up. Sure there has always been a certain amount of knowledge required, but not like today. Microsoft has been grooming the public to know some of the basics that an average user needs to […]
Read more >Feb 15, 2021
It may surprise you to know that as a computer technician I find that over 85 percent of my repairs are on laptops that are two years old and under. Today computers are no longer being put together with good materials by well paid workers. Laptop motherboards are only tested for basic continuity. After being […]
Read more >Dec 21, 2020
I have been surprised to find that over 80 percent of the repair work that I do on laptops is one to two year old models. The business class laptops are a little better but far from the quality of four to six year old models. My clients would say “it’s only a few years […]
Read more >Sep 11, 2020
Yesterday I went out on a service call to just setup a new HP laptop that was still in the box. In addition to the setup the client needed their old files moved from the old computer to the new one. This was a new laptop with the newest generation Intel processor “10th generation i5.” […]
Read more >Sep 5, 2020
For anyone who has not heard of or really don’t know much about solid state hard drives this is for you! First let me explain the differences between mechanical hard drives and solid state hard drives. One is really fast and rarely has a problem and the other is slow and can fail easier THAT’S […]
Read more >Aug 25, 2020
Now that so many people are working from home and really need a good computer there is a rise in these out of state repair companies claiming to be your neighborhood repair business. They almost always have an 800 or 877 phone number which should be your first clue that they are not your neighbor. […]
Read more >Jul 7, 2019
For the past three years according to laptop magazine the Lenovo brand has been on the top of the heap. This is nothing new to computer technicians. After IBM sold their laptop line to Lenovo , the Chinese did what they always do. If they have the best product they don’t try and make it […]
Read more >May 2, 2019
Ok this post has nothing to do with computer repair, but I find people who do this kind of advertising makes me a little ill. People who advertise that they are ” A man of faith” and then quote a bible passage. I mean if you are a man of faith, why not just act […]
Read more >Dec 16, 2018
There is nothing quite so frustrating as having your computer go from working well to having major problems. You might be thinking a virus, malware or something you just downloaded. All of these things can cause problems, but many times the problems are coming from windows 10 updates. If you upgraded from windows 7 or […]
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