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How To Know (For Sure) When Your Caps Lock Is On Or Off

August 13th, 2011 at 10:14 pm » Comments (7)

Hello everyone, It absolutely drives me crazy when I'm typing along only to find out that I have the CAPS LOCK on. My USB connected keyboard has a blue light to ...more »

Computer Repair Tools That I Can’t Live Without (Part 2: USB Drive Adapter)

August 1st, 2011 at 2:43 pm » Comments (3)

Hello everybody, In part 1 of this series I talked about my four favorite junk file cleaners. In this post I would like to tell you about a tool that literally ...more »

Computer Repair Tools That I Can’t Live Without (Part 1: Junk File Cleaners)

July 26th, 2011 at 12:13 pm » Comments (5)

Hello everyone, Where would a plumber be without his plumbing tools? Where would a carpenter be without his woodworking tools? And where would I be without my computer repair technician tools? In ...more »

Troubleshoot: Computer Keeps Shutting Down After 5-10 Minutes

July 14th, 2011 at 8:48 pm » Comments (0)

Hello everyone, Here is what just happened today: I got a desktop dropped off at the shop which had a problem of shutting itself down after about 5 to 10 minutes. I checked ...more »

Sandy Bridge Motherboards: Safe To Go Back In The Water

July 4th, 2011 at 11:44 am » Comments (0)

Hello everyone, Back in January, in this post, I wrote about the new Intel second generation processors (Sandy Bridge). I couldn't wait to "get my hands" on one of these fantastic ...more »

Meet My New $546 Computer Build!

June 28th, 2011 at 10:42 am » Comments (0)

Hello everyone, I just decided to build my own computer and I'm pretty psyched! I've carefully selected my components and I can't wait to get started. I wanted to build an ...more »

How I Recover Data From A Failed Hard Drive (Method #2)

June 22nd, 2011 at 10:20 am » Comments (0)

Hello everyone, I see it all of the time. A clients hard drive will no longer boot up into the Operating System and panic sets in! When I go to ...more »

How I Recover Data From A Failed Hard Drive (Method #1)

June 18th, 2011 at 2:16 pm » Comments (0)

Hello everyone, I see it all of the time. A clients hard drive will no longer boot up into the Operating System and panic sets in! When I go to their ...more »

How I Diagnose Wi-Fi Problems

April 30th, 2011 at 12:13 pm » Comments (0)

  Hello everyone, One of the most common complaints that I hear from my clients is that of a poor Wi-Fi Internet connection. There are many possible factors that could be causing ...more »

Why A New SATA Hard Drive Wasn’t Recognized By The BIOS

April 12th, 2011 at 7:55 am » Comments (0)

Hello everyone, The other day I picked up a six year old computer from a client. The computer would not boot and it was obvious that the SATA hard drive was ...more »