Archive for May, 2009
Don’t Buy Refurbished
Yesterday I spent 8 hours on a computer repair that was avoidable. The client had purchased a refurbished computer from Best Buy without know that it was a refurbished computer. Refurbished means it gave some one else problems and they returned it. Best Buy reboxed it and sold it again after looking at it. The [...]
Why I like MS Publisher
I use MS Publisher for doing my family letter each month. It is easy to work with and has many features. I like to mix photos from the family along with text describing what we did that month. Publisher is better than Word because you can put a photo anywhere you want to and move [...]
Motherboards are all Different
Today I was repairing a computer that the motherboard was completely dead on. It just beeped. We removed all drives and cards and it still beeped. We replaced the motherboard with new and the repair was finished. The hard part is knowing what motherboard to get. Common terms for motherboards in the Intel brand include [...]
Best Wedding Reception Experience
Recently I got to know the people at Northamptonhouse in American Fork. They are a Reception Center that we used for my daughters wedding. The building is wonderful inside and out. It is very decorated with everything. It was great. We service and support the Northampton House Reception Center as part of our IT support. [...]
IDE or SATA Hard Drives
I recently was repairing the computer of a fellow. He brought me his old computer and asked me to install a new hard drive. The old computer was a Pentium 4 – 1.7 ghz with an 80 GB hard drive. The new hard drive was a 300 GB hard drive. In the end, the motherboard [...]